<P> They break up for the first time due to Mr. Big's inability to be emotionally intimate with Carrie . They reunite but split again when Big announces that he is moving to Paris because of work . When he returns to the United States, he and Carrie bump into each other unexpectedly in the Hamptons . Upon his return, Carrie discovers that he is engaged to a young woman named Natasha, who was working for Ralph Lauren in Paris . Unsurprisingly, Carrie struggles to come to terms with Big's decision and moves on, beginning a relationship with Aidan Shaw . However, Carrie cannot put Big behind her and they have an affair, which she confesses to Aidan moments before Charlotte's wedding . Carrie and Big continue a close, sometimes sexual, always flirtatious yet tempestuous friendship until the final episode . Here we witness a romantic display of love and affection when Big whispers the sorely awaited words to Carrie--"you're the one ." </P> <P> At the start of the movie Sex and the City Carrie and Big, in a businesslike fashion, decide to marry . The wedding starts out somewhat simply with 75 guests and with Carrie choosing to wear a simple white skirt suit that she found in a vintage shop . However, after Vivenne Westwood gifts an expensive and exquisite wedding dress that Carrie wore in a Vogue modeling shoot featuring Carrie as a "40 year old bride," the wedding plans balloon into something much more elaborate and now with 200 guests . Leading up to their wedding day, Big becomes overwhelmed by the media attention and the number of guests, telling Carrie that he would have been happy with eloping to City Hall, that all he wanted was Carrie and that he's embarrassed by the attention because it's his third marriage . On the day of the ceremony, Big has a "freakout" and leaves the wedding venue without even getting out of his limousine . When Carrie calls him and asks where he is, he states "I can't do this" and Carrie leaves devastated . He immediately realizes his mistake and tells the limo driver to turn around but the damage is already done . Carrie, hurt and betrayed, blocks all communication, unknowingly ignoring his love letters and apologetic emails . Over the course of the next 7 or 8 months, Carrie reflects on what happened and realizes that she is partially to blame for the wedding fiasco, because she let the wedding "get bigger than Big ." Finally, Carrie and Big unintentionally meet, come to terms with each other, reaffirm their feelings and love, and privately marry at City Hall - the way Big had originally envisioned - with Carrie wearing the simple "label-less" vintage suit she had initially chosen, along with the blue Manolo Blahniks that had played a big part in the two of them reuniting . </P> <P> During the second movie, Carrie and Big's passion has waned . Carrie begins to feel that their marriage has lost its "sparkle" as Big enjoys spending nights eating in and watching TV . Carrie feels the urge to escape to her old apartment for two days to meet a writing deadline and enjoy some time to herself, and is surprised when Big picks her up for dinner, and feels the romance re-enter their marriage . Big then suggests to Carrie they spend two days a week apart, to enjoy their own time, which he feels is what is giving their marriage new life . Carrie, somewhat hurt and resistant, reluctantly agrees, and then travels to Abu Dhabi with Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda . While in Abu Dhabi, Carrie learns how important a marriage can be when her butler tells her how he is separated from his wife for months at a time, but when they see each other, nothing else matters . Carrie also reunites with her old flame, Aidan Shaw, whom she meets in a chance encounter at an Abu Dhabi market . Carrie feels distressed due to a bad review of her new book in the New Yorker, and meets Aidan for dinner . The two of them reconnect, and briefly kiss . Carrie immediately regrets it and asks her friends for advice on whether to tell Big . Samantha and Miranda both advise Carrie not to tell Big because it was a minor incident, but Carrie feels too guilty to let it slide and tells Big immediately . Big is hurt, and Carrie worries that Big will go from wanting two days off, to seven days off . Upon Carrie's arrival back in New York, she is upset that Big doesn't pick her up at the airport as originally planned, isn't home and hasn't called . That night, he gets home and Carrie and Big talk about their marriage . Big tells Carrie to stop worrying that they will become a tired, boring old married couple, and they take new wedding vows for each other . Big forgives Carrie and gives her a black diamond ring (to make up for his unromantic marriage proposal - without a ring - 3 years earlier) to really show the world she's off the market . As their marriage grows out of the "terrible twos" Big and Carrie seem very happy and relaxed with each other . Now that they are both making an effort, and due to the ring Big gave her, they have their "sparkle" back . </P> <P> Manhattan furniture designer Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) is Carrie's next serious boyfriend after the painful break - up with Mr. Big . Aidan is the opposite of Mr. Big, as he is a laid - back, low - key nature lover who is patient, straightforward, and somewhat traditional in his relationship with Carrie . Carrie met him through her friend Stanford Blatch when the two of them visited Aidan's furniture store . They share an uncomplicated, loving relationship, which initially confuses Carrie, as she had become used to the stresses of dating Mr. Big . She begins to feel trapped and cannot shake off Mr. Big's presence in her life . Carrie and Aidan first break up when Carrie confesses, on Charlotte and Trey's wedding day, that she had an affair with Mr. Big . </P>

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