Talkie Tuesday: The Perfect Bride

"There's no such thing."

Hello everyone!

So while our powerplant is sending out smoke signals into outer space - because why the heck else wold there be such a big cone of smoke there? - I'm sitting here watching the monstrosity and typing up my blog post. 

As it's October, I figured I could probably do something autumn-related, but instead I found this cutesy movie review I'd done a little bit ago.

I'll be doing a Halloween themed post, I promise, but I'm waiting for the premiere of Good Witch for that one.

In the meantime, though, Hallmark does indeed provide a viewer with HEAPS to watch even when you think there may be nothing.

You may think so, but they'll prove you wrong.

As they did with The Perfect Bride.

Now, fair warning: you may be seeing more Hallmark movie reviews in the future on here.

Why?

Simple.

I accidentally discovered an entire list which compiles ALL HALLMARK MOVIES from the time they first started producing them at the start of the 2000s, and to now when they've split into movies and their movies & mysteries deal.

So yeah. You could say there's a problem.

I've already lined up all my dates for their Countdown to Christmas, on both branches.

My sister's birthday on November 15th just needs to pass me by so I can officially start watching.

But enough about that.

The Perfect Bride actually didn't air this year, but it's sequel did so naturally I had to see the first movie, well, first.

Starring Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith, it has to be one of my favourite romance movies Hallmark has produced in a bit.

Then again, they just have the chemistry. Watch When Calls the Heart if you need proof.

ANYWAY.

Molly works at a gym as one of the instructors, and her most attended and famous class is actually Bridal Boot Camp, in which she gets brides (and their future spouses) prepared for married life. Then again, she probably knows a bit about the whole preparation thing and making sure you're ready, because sadly her fiancé Steven left her at the altar - as in literally, he was not at the altar when she walked into church on her dad's arm.

Talk about douche.

So now, after previously working as a counsellor, Molly helps brides-to-be to fit in their dress on the big day AND to just feel better about the whole shebang. 

I'm talking so much about this class because Molly makes her sister Lisa do it, after Lisa makes her attend this one wedding to go meet someone and maybe actually dance or something. Molly does indeed meet and dance - more because the bride makes her but that's beside the point - because that's how she and Nick get a face-to-face.

Nick is a wedding photographer and he and Molly click right away.

Cue viewers going AWWWWWWWWWWWW at Kavan and Pascale.

Obviously, it's not that simple.

Why?

Nick's engaged.

To the friend Molly's boss has persuaded her to include in the Boot Camp last-minute.

Yep, she's going to be helping the man of her dreams marry someone else.

HALLMARK.

Now in the class proper, Molly does a few classes with just the women, then has the partners be involved so they can do some fun, quirky exercises together, but in a lot of these cases, Jenna (the fiancée from hell) sort of has everything else on her mind but getting closer to Nick before their big day.

It actually turns out Jenna announced their engagement at her sister's wedding reception before Nick even proposed to her, and that everything is about being better than her sister for her.

She also wants Nick to get 'a proper job' and not be a wedding photographer anymore, but he's downright refusing working for her father in the family firm, since he knows it's not what he likes or wants.

Tensions escalate while Molly tries to play referee, ignore her feelings for Nick, and her own foreboding about these two while she nudges them in what she hopes is the right direction and hopes it'll work.

Unfortunately, Jenna's perfect dress is the one Lisa chose for her own wedding.

So when Jenna steals it (buys it before Lisa), that sort of causes waves. 

Obviously.

Nick is furious because his fiancée has gotten so far off the beaten path about what's right for the two of them and what a wedding should be about, but he calms down enough so the two of them can sit and talk it out after Molly (again) intervenes before any blood is shed.

Jenna realizes how out of hand it all got, returns the dress, apologises, completes the boot camp, and sets Nick free.

Nick, for his part, finishes his project of doing photographs of the gym Molly works at, and scurries over to Lisa's wedding so that he can snag a dance with Molly, who obviously catches the bouquet. Coming full-circle from when they first met, Nick tells Molly he's fallen in love with her, but that him and Jenna breaking up wasn't her fault. It'd been a long time coming.

They kiss as the movie ends, and as a bonus, we learn Molly's encouragement over his nature photography is probably going to get Nick into some different waters. Still happy photo-taking, but not just weddings!

I mean, I will often times get hissy about how some of these movies and their storylines get treated, but with Pascale and Kavan it's bound to end up well and I LOVED THIS. I loved the rational Molly, the calm Nick, and even liked Jenna by the end of it all because she really wasn't a witch, just driven by the wrong emotions. The fact that she could set Nick free without trying to make them both miserable spoke volumes.

So if you're in need of something pretty light-hearted with charming Kavan Smith, I highly recommend this one.

And it's sequel.

But that review's coming next week!

xx

*images and video not mine