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Caroline Gordon is to marry her childhood sweetheart in just a few
days. Her mother, Barbara, is busy taking care of every detail to
be sure that the wedding is an event to rival any ever seen in
their town. Unfortunately, as the wedding gets closer, and everyone
else's plans get bigger, Caroline's wishes and dreams for her
wedding seem to diminish. She wants turquoise bridesmaids dresses;
she gets blue. She wants sweetheart roses for her bouquet and finds
she may get nothing because the flower shippers are on strike. She
wants a candle-light wedding gown; her mother changed the order to
white. Why? "I'm not having my daughter get married in
off-white. I don't like what it says". Her sister, Kitty,
refuses to wear her bridesmaid dress, the caterer is inept, the
wedding director is difficult and snobbish, the florist is a drama
queen, and the minister, appalled at Caroline's desire to update
the vows to the 20th century, withdraws the church as the site for
the ceremony. The final loathsome straw is when Mark informs
Caroline that not only will his obnoxious best friend, Jerry, be
part of the wedding, Mark's invited him to stay at Caroline's
house. When the strains of "Here Comes the Bride" begin,
will she show? |
