mrodenhiser I caught the last 20 minutes of the movie - which was more than enough to understand the entire plot. Could there have been any more clichés thrown into this one? a) Mother-in-law doesn't approve and tries to break up marriage - but comes around in the end. b) Dead mother of the bride speaks from the graves. c) girl is made to feel bad for wanting a wedding she has dreamed of "because in the end, it isn't about the ceremony, it is about the one you love." d) potential sabotage, but in the end, the day is saved. e) all is right with the world.I am a romantic myself, but this was so nauseating.... Granted this is the same corporation that makes all of the sappy cards we give out on every holiday.

edwagreen Leave it to Hallmark to totally sweeten down a great plot. A wealthy woman practically conspires with her secretary to prevent the former's son from marrying a girl she feels to be totally unsuitable for him.Marilu Henner steals the show as the conniving mother with a cold veneer. I thought they would have made her as cruel as a Bette Davis could be.Our bride-to-be, a lovely girl, had always planned with her mother what type of wedding she would have down to every last detail. With her mother dying, the girl still wants it the way she planned and her future mother-in-law use that to her advantage to plan everything instead, especially when the marriage has to be moved up as the groom has accepted a high job in an extremely prestigious law-firm.There's the girl's widowed dad with his new girlfriend, reading the letter that her mother sent. There is the assistant as vicious as ever.Henner does a total double-take when she sees she is overwhelmed. The secretary, who is fired, plans one last act of revenge. Remember, this is Hallmark, so all must end with a sugary taste.

boblipton Brooke D'Orsay is getting married to Wes Brown in only a few weeks and she has a wedding to plan. She turns into Bridezilla and freaks out when future mother-in-law Marilu Henner tries to help because not every detail is just as she imagined it would be.This is a movie quite evidently aimed at women. Mr. Brown doesn't care about the details of their wedding and neither do I. This makes Miss D'Orsay's mania obnoxious. Since I did not care about Miss D'Orsay, I do not care about the details of her wedding, Mr. Brown's is a handsome but rather bland character and even the old pros don't give me much of interest, even though they turn obnoxious in order to give some sense of dramatic conflict to the movie.By the time that happens and the inevitable crisis occurs, I had lost interest and expect that every man whose girlfriend makes him watch will do likewise. I also believe that a lot of women who believe that a wedding is a nice party and that it's the marriage that counts will feel the same.

caseybones Another in a long line of boring, predictable pap. Nothing new, nothing that cannot be figured out in the first 10 minutes.Perky bride has the requisite dead mother who encouraged her daughter to have a lifelong obsession with her wedding day. In the cast: supportive father (naturally), evil mother-in-law-to-be that sees the error of her ways and does at 180 and embraces the new daughter-in-law in the nick of time, vindictive wannabe girlfriend who is so obvious in her deceit that she might as well be wearing a neon sign, and two totally chemistry-free lovers. Obligatory crisis occurs in the last 10 minutes and is solved in mere seconds and this mess is blessedly over.And yet again they film in a location that expects a suspension of belief with the premise that the entire wedding will be ruined because it's January instead of June and "too cold for roses" and yet every tree is fully leafed out. Apparently Hallmark has no budget for anything but the same tired studio back lot.Don't waste your time. You've seen it all before about 50 times.