This is another disappointing Hallmark movie. Let's see, we open with our heroine, June, working in an office. I'm not sure if she's a nurse, or nurse practitioner - either way she never does any actual nursing. But she looks good in scrubs - so Hallmark gives her a pass and they just "talk" about her job rather than have her do anything.
Predictably, the groom to be,Alex, has to start a job early so timetable needs to move up. Start crisis.
As they suddenly re-plan their wedding, we find June obsession over a wedding she dreamed up with her mother who passed long ago (I think I would faint if any Hallmark character actually had an intact family with all members alive and present). Alex, doesn't care in the least that she has dreamed about her wedding since she was a little girl (why are they getting married if he has no idea she feels this way and doesn't care?). His mother, however, is a cliche future mother-in-law who resents the bride to be and tried to take over all wedding plans. Obtuse Alex doesn't see any problem with his mothers domineering ways - even when pointed out by his soon-to-be wife. So conflict begins.
Poor writing shows us that even though June claims to be super busy at work, she can be present for all aspects of the planning. And while they moved up the wedding from June to January, they have to re-plan everything down to the last detail. Not one detail translates from June to January. Then let's toss in an obnoxious assistant to the mother, who does everything the mother wants her to do including hitting on Alex, and the mother's sabotage is almost complete.
Finally - of course - there is a letter from dead mother telling her the wedding isn't important - the love is - what?!? The same mother who this girl dreamed up a whole wedding with?!? Isn't the wedding planned with her mother when she was a little girl the focus of the movie? I think a bigger problem is Alex didn't know her at all if he didn't know how important the wedding was to her from the start.
We then proceed to the wrap up with the future mother-in-law having remorse and wanting to play nice. She apologizes, completely accepts June and then makes amends by firing the assistant that she manipulated from the start. Totally unnecessary and obviously done to create more drama - she must punish said assistant for her own transgressions.
My question is why would the wedding planning file be left on the assistant's desk next to the box with all her things? She barely helped with wedding plans at all - there was no reason for the file to be on her desk. And all the fired assistant does is cancel the minister?!? Talk about ridiculous. If she was going to be vindictive - and she promised she would be - she would have canceled more than the minister. Especially having the entire planning folder in her hand.
This movie had too many cliches that they had to scramble to fit in and then resolve. I think if they would have stuck to one or two, it would have made for a more believable picture... Less is usually more... Fewer conflicts would have allowed for more time to explore them and wrap them up in a more believable way.
The actors did the best they could with what they were given.
Predictably, the groom to be,Alex, has to start a job early so timetable needs to move up. Start crisis.
As they suddenly re-plan their wedding, we find June obsession over a wedding she dreamed up with her mother who passed long ago (I think I would faint if any Hallmark character actually had an intact family with all members alive and present). Alex, doesn't care in the least that she has dreamed about her wedding since she was a little girl (why are they getting married if he has no idea she feels this way and doesn't care?). His mother, however, is a cliche future mother-in-law who resents the bride to be and tried to take over all wedding plans. Obtuse Alex doesn't see any problem with his mothers domineering ways - even when pointed out by his soon-to-be wife. So conflict begins.
Poor writing shows us that even though June claims to be super busy at work, she can be present for all aspects of the planning. And while they moved up the wedding from June to January, they have to re-plan everything down to the last detail. Not one detail translates from June to January. Then let's toss in an obnoxious assistant to the mother, who does everything the mother wants her to do including hitting on Alex, and the mother's sabotage is almost complete.
Finally - of course - there is a letter from dead mother telling her the wedding isn't important - the love is - what?!? The same mother who this girl dreamed up a whole wedding with?!? Isn't the wedding planned with her mother when she was a little girl the focus of the movie? I think a bigger problem is Alex didn't know her at all if he didn't know how important the wedding was to her from the start.
We then proceed to the wrap up with the future mother-in-law having remorse and wanting to play nice. She apologizes, completely accepts June and then makes amends by firing the assistant that she manipulated from the start. Totally unnecessary and obviously done to create more drama - she must punish said assistant for her own transgressions.
My question is why would the wedding planning file be left on the assistant's desk next to the box with all her things? She barely helped with wedding plans at all - there was no reason for the file to be on her desk. And all the fired assistant does is cancel the minister?!? Talk about ridiculous. If she was going to be vindictive - and she promised she would be - she would have canceled more than the minister. Especially having the entire planning folder in her hand.
This movie had too many cliches that they had to scramble to fit in and then resolve. I think if they would have stuck to one or two, it would have made for a more believable picture... Less is usually more... Fewer conflicts would have allowed for more time to explore them and wrap them up in a more believable way.
The actors did the best they could with what they were given.