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Olivia plans a wedding for a friend's daughter, but the city-bred fiance (Bruce Davison) objects to the proceedings.

A relative wants to get married with the family there and at the mountain. Her fiancee, Bob, who's from the city comes but when he is told of a custom known as The Shivaree which is like a hazing on the groom, he asks that it not be done. John Boy tries to tell the ones who are going to do it not to but they don't get the message so they do it. When Bob comes back he wants to leave which doesn't make his wife happy.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Olivia's cousin, Olivia is getting married at a very young age to a city-boy Bob. They decide to get married on the Mountain but Bob knows nothing about Mountain customs. She arrives first and he joins her. The women of the Walton family urge the men to tell the rest of the Mountain people (especially the men) to fore-go the after wedding Shivaree (a bit of trouble and highjinks that the people of the Blue Ridge have as tradition). The Walton men try to warn the future ringleaders Ike Godsey and Yansy Tucker not to do that but too late. The wedding night spent in the Walton's shed (cum guest house) is marred when the Shivaree "party" shows up and kidnaps Bob and leaves him in the woods, very lost. The Bride forces her kin to find her city-bred groom. They find him escorted by a hunter who happened to be out coon huntin and took pity on the "Shivaree"d groom. Bob and young Olivia spend the rest of the night in silence staring at each other (he very angry). The Waltons then give them the wedding night the young couple deserves and sends them to a cabin in the woods that John-Boy writes in at times. The trouble makers return followed by the family to stop them from making anymore trouble. However, there's no trouble only songmaking with everyone launching into "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," to serenade the young couple another mountain tradtion as strong as the shivaree.