NaNoWriMo Plotting Part 4

So, I was in church today and decided that I liked the parable that was in the gospel. It is approximately from Matthew 22:1-14

The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son's wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come. Next he sent some more servants. "Tell those who have been invited" he said "that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding." But they were not interested: one went off to his farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his servants, maltreated them and killed them. The king was furious. He dispatched his troops, destroyed those murderers and burnt their town. Then he said to his servants, "The wedding is ready; but as those who were invited proved to be unworthy, go to the crossroads in the town and invite everyone you can find to the wedding." So these servants went out onto the roads and collected together everyone they could find, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was filled with guests. When the king came in to look at the guests he noticed one man who was not wearing a wedding garment, and said to him, "How did you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?" And the man was silent. Then the king said to the attendants, "Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth." For many are called, but few are chosen.

So I was thinking that there must be a reason why none of the original people didn't turn up after they were invited. I'm going to write it kind of like a fairy tale, I think. The problem is I might still not have enough plot to make it to the 50k mark. We're going to have to see.

My plot kind of goes: There's a king, and his son is getting married to some princess or other important female figure. Her father, doesn't approve of the match, but the prince's father is pleased with the idea, so the wedding goes ahead. Meanwhile the woman's father is sabotaging the whole thing, so he bribes the invited guests to not go, and none of them do. Then it kind of goes like in the parable. So then you come to the last-minute guests and contrast two varieties. There is the poor family that spends their last dollar on an appropriate outfit, and the other that doesn't. Or alternately the family that inquires about wedding garments, and the one that doesn't.

Clearly there has to be some bigger conspiracy, because as it goes it's a pretty random tale. But fairy tales often are.