Is Brooke Finally Getting Hitched on One Tree Hill? (Hint: Your Invitation's in the Mail)

Exec producers Mark Schwahn and Joe Davola reveal the eighth season's big twist, including how fans can be involved in the nuptials

By Megan Masters Sep 14, 2010 9:50 PMTags
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Save the date: Brooke Penelope Davis and Julian Baker are getting married!

If you're a fan of One Tree Hill''s soul mates-turned-real-life lovebirds Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols, get excited because that much-talked about wedding is happening...and you might be invited to the nuptials!

Read on to learn about the big plans that show helmers Mark Schwahn and Joe Davola have for all the Tree Hill couples in season eight, which might be the long-running CW series' final season...

Brooke and Julian: No matter what happens with the future of One Tree Hill (whether the show is renewed for another season or doesn't receive more than its current 13-episode order), we will see a Bruilian wedding. "There are a couple of bigger events we would like to see early on [this season], the most prominent being Brooke's wedding," Mark tells us. "It's an event that I believe in, and [we won't] sabotage it." Some fans believe that a huge storyline throughout the latter half of OTH has also been Brooke's desire to have a child, but Mark sees it a bit differently.

"Brooke's story has always been about what makes a family," he explains. "She didn't have a good relationship with her parents, she was pretty nomadic as a character, and you always rooted for her to have that idea of family. But families can take on such different faces, and having Julian at her side, which we're fans of, has solved a lot of that for her. I don't know that [Brooke having a child] is a direction that we'll go, but never say never. Ultimately, I do root for Brooke's happiness and [right now] Julian is a big part of that."

And guess what? You guys are going to have the chance to be a part of the wedding!

"We love our fans, so hopefully this year we'll be able to have them participate in Brooke's wedding," Joe reveals. "Maybe picking the cake and possibly picking the wedding dress out, the song she's going to dance to, and if we can convince the network, hopefully get a couple of fans to the wedding reception." Can we get a big ol' squee?!

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Nathan and Haley: Naley is with child, that much we know. But will the baby be a blessing for the pair? "It could go one of two ways," Mark says. "It could be the straw that broke the camel's back or [Haley] could find strength in it." Luckily for fans of the couple, it sounds like strength is the winner in this scenario.

"Haley was starting to pull out of her depression at the end of last season, and now she'll have to deal with the Quinn [shooting]. But she is going to find strength in this...she's going to focus on simpler things. Julian has a line where he says, 'After something like this, it all gets pretty simple,' and for Haley, that's exactly what will happen. It will be central to her character for awhile."

And while we'll see a baby bump, little Jamie might not actually meet his sibling while OTH is still on the air because there's just so much to do in so little time.

"I like the idea of a growing family for Nathan and Haley," Mark says, "And I'll never say never, but my instincts tell me they'll face obstacles, and they'll face them together as a family, and it won't be something like a miscarriage or something like that."

Clay and Quinn: All we can reveal about these two is that you must tune in to tonight's premiere, because their future will be made a little bit clearer.

Don't miss One Tree Hill tonight at 8 p.m. on the CW, followed by the premiere of Life Unexpected at 9 p.m. That's a good night of television, don't ya think?

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