Garage Sale Mystery: The Wedding Dress

Original title: The Wedding Dress

Episode aired Aug 9, 2015
1h 23m

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6.8/10

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Cheryl Ladd, Lori Loughlin, and Sarah Strange in The Wedding Dress (2015)

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The owner of an antique store comes across a wedding dress with a mysterious past and vows to solve the mystery of the missing groom.The owner of an antique store comes across a wedding dress with a mysterious past and vows to solve the mystery of the missing groom.The owner of an antique store comes across a wedding dress with a mysterious past and vows to solve the mystery of the missing groom.

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Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) travels around town finding garage sales, estate sales and storage locker auctions in order to find interesting items for her antique shop, Rags to Riches. While searching for appealing pieces, she tends to find things that have a very mysterious past, usually leading to cold cases. Jennifer has a knack for finding out where the items came from, who was involved and discovering exactly what happened.

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Trivia
Logan is never seen in this installment, but is mentioned. Jennifer explains that he was away at computer camp. Brendan Meyer was filming scenes for Fear the Walking Dead, which led to subsequent recasting of the role.

Goofs
The dress at the heart of this story and all those shown in the "1979 newspaper wedding photos" Jennifer views in the library, are strapless. In fact, that style wedding gown was nearly unheard of in 1979 and, according to fashion site racked.com, the strapless trend only began to emerge in the mid 1990s, at least 15 years after the movie nuptials were supposed to have taken place.

Connections
Followed by Garage Sale Mysteries: Garage Sale Mystery: Guilty Until Proven Innocent (2016)

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7/10

How to get away with murder...with just a little bit of decent script writing

A wedding groom goes missing on his wedding day and he is never to be seen again for some 30 years and no one seems to care anymore. That is until our antiques dealer/amateur sleuth Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) visits an estate sale and finds the brides wedding dress with some blood in one of the bride's dress pockets.

So the mystery begins with enough suspects to record a new Guinness Book record for the amount of people who can be stuffed into a Volkswagen car. So where was the missing bridegroom stuffed? Not in that Volkswagen that is for sure.

Jennifer's also dealing with two family matters. Her daughter's boyfriend is looking at a distance relationship and if it can survive their young love, and Jennifer's own marriage is near to another anniversary date but her workaholic husband seems to be distracted with his business to realize their wedding anniversary is just around the corner with no plan in site to celebrate their (not so?) memorable wedding date.

One of the suspects is the still very attractive 64 year old Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels TV 1977-1981) who plays the stood up at the altar and wealthy bride Helen Whitney Carter, that fateful day some 30 years prior. Although the writing of this made for TV movie seems to take the long way around to find out what really happened to our missing bride groom the real mystery would be how sloppy the absent police department would have had to be if this story was even vaguely possible.

Mrs. Shullivan and I both liked the film and especially the recovery ending even though the story was quite winding and a bit troublesome to think that the police department could not have achieved what our amateur sleuth Jennifer Shannon accomplished all on her own with just her good looks and wholesome charm.

I give this chapter of the Garage Sale Mystery series a more than decent 7 out of 10. Just remember that this mystery film is not developed with a blockbuster Hollywood budget so manage your expectations and like Mrs. Shullivan and I, you will not be disappointed.

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