It should have been a romantic wedding but it was not.

There were too many factors working against romance, as even Rilla had to admit.

In the first place, Miranda, in spite of her dress and veil, was such a flat-faced, commonplace, uninteresting little bride.

In the second place, Joe cried bitterly all through the ceremony, and this vexed Miranda unreasonably.

Long afterwards she told Rilla, "I just felt like saying to him then and there, 'If you feel so bad over having to marry me you don't have to.' But it was just because he was thinking all the time of how soon he would have to leave me." In the third place, Jims, who was usually so well-behaved in public, took a fit of shyness and contrariness combined and began to cry at the top of his voice for "Willa." Nobody wanted to take him out, because everybody wanted to see the marriage, so Rilla who was a bridesmaid, had to take him and hold him during the ceremony.
In the fourth place, Sir Wilfrid Laurier took a fit.
Sir Wilfrid was entrenched in a corner of the room behind Miranda's piano.