User Reviews

Jocelyn Hudon does a fine job as the female lead, and she has a fun chemistry with Ryan Paevey. As usual the best part of this movie are some of the supporting actors, like Derek McGrath from Doc. And the actress playing the girl that's destined to lose, Kelly Kruger, is incredibly beautiful.

This is kind of a cute rom/com with a light air to it.

Unfortunately the dialogue sometimes sounds like it was written by 7th graders. (Sorry for the insult 7th graders.) Seriously? "Like like" is repeated more than once. And "have feelings for ..." There are also repeated statements like "We're only best friends" with the apparent inference that it prohibits romantic feelings.

There is some dancing around "love" vs "in love" in addition to the discussion about best friends. I find it sad that anyone would think that being best friends is not the best foundation for marriage. I hope that the writers intended that as one of the points of the movie.

I expected this movie to be predictable down to the smallest detail, but there were actually some surprises. The biggest is that Kimberly is actually nice. She is far more honest and reasonable than Jess. Jess actually has several issues that make it hard to like her, not the least of which is that at times she doesn't act much better than a 7th grader. (Really, I don't dislike 7th graders.)

Pavey and Hudon have chemistry which really isn't there with Kruger, but it isn't supposed to be.

Maybe it's the lack of loud music, but this movie moved very slowly. The use of like like was sooooo annoying! These people are pretty awful. You can't go pick up your own grandma? Why are they getting married so fast? Why didn't he tell his "BFF" he was dating someone? What kind of best friend is that? The bride is constantly talking to her ex and is angry when her fiancé is talking with his friend? The groom can't pick up his own tux? This castle looks like a prison. Seniors have to come and set up your wedding? These people look rich enough to hire actual workers instead of getting what seems to be a free wedding. Who do they think planned the wedding exactly if they fired their free wedding planner? I have no idea where this movie is going but know I won't watch it again.

This is a nice but very slight Hallmark film.

It's engaging enough, but Jess saying over and over that she has no feelings for Ted solidly for 77 mins does grate a little.

If you're in the right mood though this remains nice enough Hallmark fare.

I am amazed by the poor reviews this one has gotten so far! I thought this was one of the better Hallmarks. The lead actress, though not super-great was more than adequate. And Ryan Paevey is a big favorite with me. This also had some surprising elements to it that moved it out of the usual very predictable Hallmark template. First of all the rival of our heroine, Jess, who is set to marry Jess' best friend, Ted, was a high school mean-girl. As any Hallmark aficionado will predict, she will show her true colors, and prove herself to be the fiance from hell. Our heroine will rescue her buddy from her evil clutches at the last minute and win his love for herself.But no! She has actually changed and is now really nice, if a little suspicious of Jess. Her instincts were correct. Jess has decided she is in love with Ted. We are teased a few times that mean Kimberley is going to emerge from her clever phony facade. But No! It is actually Jess's stupid antics and non-stop lying to herself and others, that show Kimberley in a favorable and sympathetic light. It was getting to be the last 15 minutes of the movie, and I was cudgeling my brain as to how the writer was going to resolve this. It was shaping up to be another My Best Friend's Wedding, which I knew was impossible because, come on, Its HALLMARK! They managed it thanks to Kimberley, who, in a faster that the speed of light last minute epiphany realized that she was just marrying Ted to prove that she wasn't a mean girl anymore, and Ted realized that he wanted to marry Kimberley to prove he wasn't the fat nerd anymore. It was actually pretty neatly done. The other things I liked were the voice over narration at the beginning and the end, Ted's granny, Jess' elderly adviser, and the rest of the secondary characters. So Kudos, Hallmark, try to step outside the box more often!

I, too, am surprised this film got some really bad reviews. I thought it was well acted and it kept me guessing as to the outcome in spite of the spoiler title!

I really appreciated that the older actors at the nursing home were portrayed so well as normal people. I get so fed up when they are made to look stupid or unable to DO anything. I loved that she had a good friend in the guy on the scooter as well as her friend her own age.

I would have liked them to have taken advantage of the venue and just got married right then instead. It looked like she had a very simple wedding after having 'gone to town' on everyone else's. Shame really...she wanted to marry in that castle too and she'd called in so many favors that day.

I really enjoyed Ryan Paevey. I especially enjoyed him in Unleashing Mr. Darcy. I didn't enjoy as much in this movie. The movie itself was okay but I really did Not like the ending. At the end, I expected a little more romance between the two best friends. I needed more than 30 seconds of, "after all this time you were really the one."