"Charmed" The Wedding from Hell (TV Episode 1998) Poster

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8/10
True Love Conquers All
claudio_carvalho13 January 2007
A couple of days before the wedding of Elliot Spencer and Allison Michaels, his mother Mrs. Grace Spencer is unexpectedly visited by her old acquaintance Hannah Webster and Jade D'Mon, who put a spell on Elliot to marry Jade, actually the demon Hecate, with the intention to get pregnant and have an offspring. Piper is hired to cater the wedding, while Phoebe has a premonition of the birth of a demon baby. When a priest is murdered in the mansion with an ancient dagger, Prue discloses the mystery and together with her sisters, they decide to help Allison and destroy the demon.

"The Wedding from Hell" is a good episode with a weak conclusion, since nobody including Andy question what happened with the ceremony and mostly with Jade. Anyway, the situations with the nice trio of lead actresses make this show worthwhile. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Um Casamento dos Infernos" ("A Wedding from Hells")
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7/10
Innocent no saved by the sisters
estradamx21 January 2021
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It was disappointing that the sisters did not try to save the pizza boy, if he had been killed on the spot and there was nothing to do would be justified, but first it is injured and they do not intervene, only show a little repulsion, ¿but perhaps he was not an innocent who should also be saved?. If they didn't want to be discovered maybe a broken window to distract and he will try to escape or freeze demon women, there was never talk of him, not even his disappearance after delivering an order in that house
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6/10
Episode from Hell
seneuser7 October 2023
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Except for the villain being a hot woman, which I've always appreciated, I've never cared for this episode.

Piper is a basket-case throughout, stressed because Chef Moore has left her in the lurch, having to cater a high price wedding on her own. Phoebe misinterprets a premonition again, thinking Piper is going to have Jeremy's baby even though the timing can't possibly add up. And Prue for once is just trying to keep the wheels on the track.

How do you replace a bride in a wedding just days before it goes down? Did none of the guests notice? These demons seem to have no power other than having claws and being really ugly. Bring on the good looking demons that throw fireballs and force balls. Thank you.

The short scene where the Charmed Ones sit idly by while an innocent stripper is killed by the demons is one of the most regrettable scenes in the entire series. I get they just wanted to prove to the sisters that the new bride was a demon, but that was a terrible way to do it. Why didn't Piper freeze the demons and then get the stripper out of there?

IF the dagger can just suck demons right into it, then why didn't the priest just do that? And hey, why did the sisters ever give that thing back? That was the mightiest weapon against demons we'll ever see until Phoebe gets the power to cast fireballs.

Easiest vanquish of all time.
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A match made in hell
Realrockerhalloween8 September 2016
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The wedding from hell shows how the rich and fabulous celebrate big events. The decor is beautiful, the bride is lovely and the mother of the bride made a Faustian bargain for money in exchange for her son. The setup seems a little jilted as you never find out why or how the deal was mare and what mother could ever offer up their own child. I guess money does corrupt absolutely. What makes Mrs. Spencer likable however is her willingness to right the wrong and help her son fiancé get to him before a demon spawn can be produced.

Hecata is an interesting history figure from ancient Greece mythology and by the show's cannon produced the world's worst dictators. I wonder if that includes Mao and Hitler? Also she's references as the queen of the underworld yet is never references again and how does it for in with The Source ruling the underworld?

Another thing I loved was Piper incorrectly thinking Jeremy had gotten her pregnant before his vanquish and by showing it out of order leads to plot holes with Chef Moore moving back from France along with many weeks passing without pregnancy symptoms ever appearing.

While a strong episode it feels incomplete with Hate De'mon, I wonder if she's Drake's sister, disappearing without an investigation.
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6/10
Favorite episode in 1A...
m-4782619 March 2021
It's extremely corny, but I love everything about it. This is where the show began to find its footing, and stopped looking awkward. Second is Dead Man Dating. Hecate is a great freak of the week, though not used to its full. But I think it's because the network, couldn't make the show too scary, especially on the early episodes. So it's normal in a way. One liners and the overall humor, are on point. And even though it's a scary episode, for viewers under ten, it's not without its charm. Even the replacement song is good. One of the Charmed episodes I love watching often, and a highlight of the season, for me.
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10/10
The One With Hecate...
taylorkingston21 February 2015
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I love this episode. It's so good. It's an interesting concept and I just love it. It's one of my favorite episodes from Season 1.

In this episode, a demon, Hecate, had made a deal with a woman. Now it's time for that woman to pay the price. The price was her son's hand in marriage, so that Hecate can get pregnant, with a child that would look human on the outside, but be pure evil on the inside. Nice plan, right? Piper's boss was hired to cater the wedding, they're getting married, by the way, and since her boss took off to Paris, it's all up to her. Eventually, they notice something very strange when the napkins don't have Hecate's human name on them. They find the woman who was supposed to marry Elliott, and they try to figure out what's going wrong. Eventually they figure out Hecate's plan and they stop the wedding, and she and her evil bridesmaids get sucked into a magic knife, that keeps her trapped.

Overall, I give this episode a 10 out of 10.
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4/10
It doesn't add up, not even with 'magic'
gmb1023215 February 2016
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I am fine with supernatural powers, demons that disappear into thin air, premonitions, spells, etc... Otherwise I wouldn't be watching this TV show.

What I truly cannot believe is that in a well-arranged, high social class wedding the bride is replaced 24 hours before the wedding and no guest asks why (where are the bride's parents, relatives, and friends, for crying out loud?), a man is killed in mysterious circumstances and no investigation is carried out (even though there is a video containing some serious incriminating evidence), a wedding is cancelled after a demon casts a spell over the whole attendance (!), and no-one says "wtf?" and talks to the TV or the newspapers. The police just walks away, the various attendants and security guys in the villa clean the mess up and ... that's it???

Anyone who does not notice this overwhelming implausibility (even taking magic into account) is, quite frankly, an idiot. There is NO way this could have happened, as the Halliwell sisters' powers do not include making 200 people suddenly brain-dead.
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