Joey is nominated for a Soapy Award for his part on Days of Our Lives and Rachel is his date to the ceremony. Joey doesn't win the award but takes someone else's award home. Rachel convinces him to take it back because he can't be happy with an award he didn't win. One of Ross' students failed the midterms because he is in love with Ross and can't concentrate in class so Ross changes his grade. But now more students come to Ross pretending to be in love with him in order to get a better grade. When Rachel and Joey take the Soapy back the real winner just throws it away saying it's not good enough for her so Joey takes it back home. Monica really loves Chandler but it scares her that she will never have the rush of the beginning of meeting someone new again. Chandler reassures her and she realizes she is going to have a lot of new things with Chandler as well.

Monica takes the other girls to an overpriced store to choose her wedding dress, briefing them as if they were in the military since bargain-hunters are far more ruthless then Rachel can usually handle. The worst shopper is Megan: she grabs the dress Monica wants, then blackmails her over booking the swing band that's the only thing Chandler really wants for the wedding. Meanwhile, Ross and Joey independently meet and date Kristen while helping her move in. The rivals agree to let her choose after one date with each, but they get so carried away cheating on the deal that she runs off altogether.

Rachel watches Ben for an hour and is a little scared because she's never been alone with him before. Rachel teaches Ben practical jokes to entertain him but everybody hates the pranks. Chandler and Monica try to choose a minister but can't find one so they promise Joey that he can marry them. Joey gets his minister certificate on the Internet and writes his speech including the story how Chandler and Monica got together. Chandler finds out that Monica actually wanted to sleep with Joey when she knocked on the door but Chandler was the only one there. Chandler is really upset and doesn't want Joey to do the wedding anymore. Joey talks to him about how Chandler and Monica are meant for each other and nothing could take that away and Chandler is happy to let Joey do the wedding. Ross and Ben play a prank on Rachel so she will stop teaching them to Ben.

Joey gets an opportunity to rejoin "Days of Our Lives" when his comatose character is implanted with the brain of a female character. Joey approaches her to get some advice on how to play her character, but she's unaware that she's being written out of the show and freaks out at Joey. Later, she tries to give him some pointers, and they end up spending the night together. Ross tells Chandler and Monica that he has a surprise for their wedding, which turns out to be him playing the bagpipes - terribly, as it turns out. Rachel and Phoebe have their eye on a guy at the coffee house and when he leaves his cellphone, they see it as an opportunity to hook up with him; the only problem is who will it be?

It's Rachel's 30th birthday and they all reflect on all their 30th birthdays. Rachel is really upset because according to her life plan she should already be with the One and she realizes that Tag could never be the man she would want to spend the rest of her life with.

Rachel wants to have a place to sit in front of the TV but Joey tells her Rosita, the armchair, does not move. Rachel tries to move it anyway and breaks it in half. The Gellers sell their house and Monica and Ross have to take their childhood memories home but Monica's boxes were ruined in a flood. Phoebe starts working as a telephone sales woman and talks to Earl who want to kill himself. Chandler sits in the armchair and thinks he broke it so he secretly exchanges Rosita with his chair. Meanwhile Joey and Rachel went to buy a new armchair as well so now they have two. Rachel keeps the super cool new armchair while Joey is stuck with his normal old one. When Chandler finds out he didn't break Rosita he wants to take it back but Joey broke Chandler's chair in order to get Rachel's cool chair. Phoebe talks Earl out of killing himself. Monica's dad gives her his Porsche to say that he loves her just as much as he loves Ross.

Chandler and Rachel eat a cheesecake that was accidentally delivered to their door, and it's the best cheesecake they've ever had. Another cheesecake gets delivered, and they try to resist and drop it off to the neighbor that was supposed to receive it. Ross is invited to a cousin's wedding, but Monica isn't. She is very upset, because she was the girl's best friend when they grew up together, so she gets Ross to take her instead of a date. Rachel and Chandler find the replacement cheesecake untouched in front of the neighbor's door, so they take it. At the reception, Monica is embarrassed when she learns that she wasn't invited to the wedding because she used to date the groom. Phoebe meets David, the love of her life, again, but he now lives in Russia.

Chandler and Rachel eat a cheesecake that was accidentally delivered to their door, and it's the best cheesecake they've ever had. Another cheesecake gets delivered, and they try to resist and drop it off to the neighbor that was supposed to receive it. Ross is invited to a cousin's wedding, but Monica isn't. She is very upset, because she was the girl's best friend when they grew up together, so she gets Ross to take her instead of a date. Rachel and Chandler find the replacement cheesecake untouched in front of the neighbor's door, so they take it. At the reception, Monica is embarrassed when she learns that she wasn't invited to the wedding because she used to date the groom. Phoebe meets David, the love of her life, again, but he now lives in Russia.

Phoebe brings in her late mother's Christmas memorial candy dish, shaped like a skull. Ben stays with Ross for the holidays who intends to teach his son about their Jewish heritage. He feels Ben is only exposed to Christmas traditions. Ross certainly makes his mark on Ben but the idea of a year without Santa sounds like a serious punishment. Chandler presumes that Rachel wants to stay living happily with Joey but Monica wants her to go back to Phebes so gives Joey drums to drive Rachel out. That doesn't work so they try a tarantula which scares Joey but not Rachel who had one as a kid. Chandler's wait for a restaurant table means he might miss a theater performance; tipping the host doesn't work either as he can't find the paper money. Ross, wants to surprise Ben but can't rent any Christmas suit this late, so he invents Santa's Tex-Mex friend: the Holiday Armadillo. The Armadillo explains about Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights but Chandler appears as Santa to help out Ross. Ross ...

When Monica wants to get to know her neighbors, she decides to make candy, but when the neighbors want candy 24/7, she becomes overwhelmed. When Rachel makes a fake but inappropriate evaluation of Tag, she gets angry with him when he fails to read it and sends it to Human Resources. With the help of Ross, Phoebe learns to ride a bike.