Bridegroom's Dilemma (1911)

Billy Gordon and Helen Truesdell are going to be married. Billy is ready to go to the church, where the knot is to be tied, when he notices a black stain on his bridal trousers. He gets busy taking off his trousers and applying a strong-smelling eradicator, removes the stain. The odor of the eradicator remains in the cloth and he hands his breeches out the window to air. A mischievous boy comes along and cuts off the legs of the trousers. Billy has sent his trunk to the railroad station and he hasn't a second pair of pants and finds it impossible to secure a pair. He thinks up an idea, he pins the legs of his trousers onto his drawers, puts on his frock coat and looks all right. He goes to the church, is married, but during the wedding feast, at the home of his bride, the deficiency in his costume is discovered, and he gets "in wrong" with his bride, his father-in-law and the guests. He rushes from the scene followed by his wife's father, to whom he explains the cause of his discomfiture, the old gentleman loans him a pair of trousers, enabling him to return to his wife and to continue the festivities with his friends and guests.

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GenresComedy Short