A brief defense of wedding-day kissing
(A companion piece to this!)
As you can see by the other piece, I was always a bit annoyed by Amy trying to kiss the Doctor on her wedding day, but something or other on GB made me change my mind about it. Unfortunately I can’t remember what it was or who said it. Buuuut, some things to think about-
a) Rory doesn’t mind Amy announcing to the Doctor, “you may definitely kiss the bride”, otherwise we can probably assume he wouldn’t be smiling at her and dancing with her. He doesn’t seem especially bothered by “We haven’t even had a snog in the shrubbery yet”, either- he goes “Amy!”, there’s that quick “My wedding/Our wedding” exchange, and then he cheerfully runs off in the TARDIS with her.
(Quick interlude! My fiance points out that it’s not unusual for the best man, say, to kiss the bride. This is basically that with the genders reversed.)
b) Amy’s later comment “Where are you going? We haven’t even had a snog in the shrubbery yet” could be taken a few ways: her and the Doctor haven’t had a snog in the shrubbery- or her and Rory haven’t had a snog in the shrubbery- or they have not in fact witnessed any snogging in the shrubbery, which is of course something every wedding day needs. (And now I’m going to stop saying ‘shrubbery’ before I turn into a Knight who says Ni.)
Steven Moffat did once say something about that scene- something like ‘Well, Amy won’t always behave in a likeable way’ -but I still like her, always have. Basically- I think the whole thing is just a joke or a bit of banter between those three, Amy and her boys. I love those crazy kids so much.