The Ending to Jim and Pam's Wedding in 'The Office' Was Originally Much Darker

For those few fans who totally missed an amazingly special day on Oct. 8, that's okay. I'm here to remind you that ten years ago on Tuesday, Pam Beesly and Jim Halpert said their vows at Niagara Falls. While we can wallow in the nostalgia of that amazing episode of The Office, it's also mind blowing to think that it was a decade ago!

To commemorate the anniversary of one of the best TV episodes ever, Entertainment Weekly sat down with the cast and writers of The Office to ask what it was like creating it.

Greg Daniels, who adapted the original UK Office for American audiences, spoke about his work with the episode's director, Paul Feig, and writer/Kelly Kapoor actress, Mindy Kaling. Apparently, Daniels' original idea for Pam and Jim's wedding was that Roy, Pam's ex-fiancé, would show up at the wedding on a horse and object to their marriage in a futile attempt at winning Pam back.

During that episode, as the writers recalled, Dwight Schrute would have been taking a keen interest in all the animals surrounding Niagara Falls, hearing stories about a cow who went over the falls and survived, sheep who went over the falls and also survived, and humans who went over in barrels but didn't make it.

So in Dwight-land, he would come up with the idea that a horse would know how to swim the treacherous waters, and when he sees Roy on a horse, he would steal it, ride it to the river atop the falls, and attempt to swim over them. Except last minute, Dwight would chicken out, and viewers would be treated to a shot of a horse being swept over Niagara falls.

"The original ending was a big controversy," Feige was sure to explain. Um, you think?! He also recalled, "We were all like, 'This is insane. You can’t send a horse over the falls.' And Greg was like, 'No, it would be really funny.' And there was this whole debate that went on in the writers' room, people are like, 'I don’t know, I think this is kind of dark and weird.'"

Of course, in the end, everyone knows what did happen. The writers, stumped for ideas, turned to YouTube and saw wedding videos where friends and family danced down the aisle to Chris Brown's "Forever," and the rest is history.

After the endless seasons of Jim and Pam's romantic relationship getting stalled by annoying circumstances, showrunners were right to give fans such a joyful wedding episode, and certainly not a dying horse!