Jenny’s Wedding

Plots: Jenny’s parents and siblings are always trying to set her up with a man when she visits them. What they don’t know is that she already met the right person 5 years ago–her “roommate” Kitty–and she wants to marry her and start a family. Jenny Farrell has led an openly gay life–except with her conventional family. When she finally decides to start a family and marry the woman they thought was just her roommate, the small, safe world the Farrells inhabited changes forever. They are left with a simple and difficult choice: either change with it or drown. Jenny Farrell is the only one of her siblings who isn’t married yet, and she faces endless concern and pressure to find someone from her parents and siblings. One day, tired of trying to be fixed up, she lashes back at her sister Anne that for all she knows, Jenny could be in a relationship. Anne speculates that Jenny’s seeing a married man, since she’s never brought the guy home. Jenny admits to her father she has found the right person and wants to get married, but doesn’t know if there is a wedding in the near future. Later, she clarifies to her relieved mother that she is not involved with a married man. Jenny’s father tells her mother that the man she is seeing is not willing to commit, leading them to conclude he must be married and the reason for her secretive ways. Jenny desire to be married and raise a family sparks her to pop the question herself. Now she must tell her parents that she has been in a relationship for 5 years and kept it secret for fear they wouldn’t approve. Jenny confides to her parents that they have actually known her future spouse well for many years. Her revelation changes the Farrell family’s traditional Midwestern life forever and threatens to tear their family apart–if they let it.