"Who's ready to get married in six weeks?"
Hello everyone!
It's time for another movie review and YES, I know, I know, this one isn't very autumnal either, but it connects back to last week's and I couldn't just do one without the other, right?
Right.
In any event, Hallmark has pretty much been showing all the extra special fall movies that will apparently more or less wrap up with the Good Witch Halloween Special (which I am VERY excited for!), and then it's off to count down until December.
Yes, that's also super fast, but it's Hallmark.
Back to the topic at hand, however, this is going to be one of those wedding movies again, but I'm telling you it's probably one of the stronger sequels I had the chance to watch.
Normally, second movies are the weakest link. The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells, while not a masterpiece, certainly wasn't bad, either.
If you scroll down to the bottom of this post you'll find a link to last week's The Perfect Bride recap and review, which I hope you'll have a read about.
VERY briefly, however: Molly, who works at Counter Fit Gym and holds boot camps classes for brides-to-be, falls in love with wedding photographer Nick, who is sadly already engaged. Through mishaps and some mayhem, and a lot of wise advice while prepping her younger sister for her wedding, however, Molly does end up with the man of her dreams.
So now it's time to see whether or not THEY are ready to tie the knot!
A year after the events of the first film, we're back at the gym with Molly.
How do we know it's been a year?
Because Molly's added a new class to her rotation, one which focuses on new brides and (supposedly) brings more harmony into already harmonious marriages that have lasted a year at least. Her sister does in fact confirm that she's been married a year, so that's how we know.
Anyway.
Molly is also thinking about buying her own gym, just because that's a logical next step, but the owner of the current one she works at (I keep calling him Wo Fat because of the actor) proposes a better idea: he's about to retire, so why wouldn't she just buy him out?
It's a go for that, so now all Molly needs is a loan from the bank.
Unfortunately, the bank isn't too keen on this idea so Molly needs something else - potentially an investor.
When the investor turns out to be her ex-fiancé Steven (who left her at the altar), you know there's bound to be trouble ahead of the lot.
Meanwhile, Nick is preparing for his first ever gallery opening, having morphed from wedding to nature photographer and is nervous as all get-out. It doesn't help that a persistent bride keeps trying to get him to photograph her wedding, which he keeps saying no to.
I don't quite understand why though. I mean, even if you're technically not a wedding photographer anymore, surely you could do one wedding anyway?
Moving on.
Between the stress of the gym situation and the gallery opening, Molly and Nick do still remain strong, connected, and kind, and of course Nick isn't about to let her slip through his grasp, so he takes her back to where they met for the very first time, and proposes.
There is, however, a hitch: he kind of makes a mistake about the venue date, accidentally booking one that's six weeks instead of eight months away.
The devil, as they say, is in the details.
I'm still not sure if it was Nick who made the mistake or the venue people, but in any event, Nick and Molly now dive into what might be the biggest undertaking of their lives: recruiting Molly's sister and brother-in-law and Nick's best (married) friends, they launch the project of organising the wedding, the gallery opening, and the gym buy-out.
Steven isn't helping, either.
Also not helping is the fact that Molly sees a dress that might be perfect for her, but it won't be ready on time.
Both she and Nick are against the word 'perfect', however, and just want to survive the next six weeks with all the trials and tribulations.
This includes the persistent bride and photography AND Steven accidentally seeing Molly in her wedding dress.
Something, somewhere, has got to give, however, because being spread so thin is unhealthy for just about anyone, and it blows up at the gallery opening when Molly lets slip that she's terrified Nick will leave her at the altar.
The two of them then sit down and decide to postpone the wedding, because ... well, it's not worth their sanity?
Of course once the decision is made things start falling into place:
- Molly tells Steven she's forgiven him and moved on
- Nick's entire gallery display gets snatched up by a major hotel chain and they want him to take more photos, just for them (and the persistent bride? Well she's marrying into the hotel family)
- the gym owner decides not to retire but that he and Molly should become partners
- Molly's perfect dress opens up for the date they secured the venue
Deciding they do not, in fact, want to wait, Nick and Molly go for the original date and end up getting the wedding they wanted (in only took six weeks!), and even dance together despite Nick having two left feet.
But here's his secret: he recruited Molly's sister and attended a dance class to surprise her.
As they say: all's well that ends well!
While it didn't have quite the same kick that the first one did, Wedding Bells reunited us with Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith, who are always delightful to watch on screen. I was especially happy that Hallmark didn't go the unreasonable jealous route when Steven showed up. There's way too much of that in shows, movies and books nowadays!
If you're looking for an easy, relaxing movie that won't give you headaches, look no further.
And maybe we'll see a third movie next year with a baby on the way? Maybe.
xx
*images and video not mine
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