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The Savvi Wedding Store: Movie review for “The Wedding Planner” starring
celebrity Jennifer Lopez and celebrity Matthew McConaughey
Jennifer Lopez plays Mary Fiore, an extremely organized, driven, wedding planning professional who can efficiently plan and execute weddings. She displays a realistic, seasoned calm demeanor that provides brides, their grooms and many times also the parents of the couple with a consistent and realistic picture of wedding planning and wedding day calm.
In a not so strange scene for many women, Mary’s new Gucci shoe heel gets caught in the opening of a manhole cover while a garbage dumpster runs barreling out of control down the steep San Francisco street headed straight toward her. Steve, played by Matthew McConaughey, comes to her rescue by throwing her out of the way and best of all, saving the shoe. What follows is a somewhat typical romance comedy story line. Well, o.k. more so than the setup. Steve turns out to be a pediatric doctor and quite a handsome one at that. No woman is complaining here. If you cannot have it all at the movies; where does true perfection lie? Matthew, I mean Steve, executes his eye candy role perfectly, as if he is Dr. McDreamy himself, Patrick Dempsey.
Steve helps her to the hospital and later Mary’s friend shows up to give her a ride home; only after she sets them up on a date for the evening. Their date to a vintage outdoor movie which includes audience participation in ballroom dance shows off Steve’s dancing abilities and quickly Mary finds herself blown away by his charm.
In a slightly underdeveloped parallel story line, Mary is competing to make partner at the wedding planning firm. Her partnership hinges upon securing the wedding of the century; Fran Donnelly’s (played by Bridgett Wilson- Sampras) wedding. Mr. Donnelly puts Mary on the spot about her vision for the wedding and immediately she is hired. SURPRISE! Come to find out the very next day that the groom in the Donnelly wedding is actually none other than new love interest from last evening, Steve.
In an unlikely scenario, Mary and Steve are pushed together by the bride for a dance class while she herself accepts a phone call. It is a tense but funny encounter. It is the beginning of many wedding planning meetings that the bride leaves to Steve as she pursues her business. Mary and Steve have an opportunity over the course of his engagement to share personal stories and develop a platonic relationship. Including a very odd scene where Mary goes from completely drunk to sober in the course of minutes. But when it comes to an all-out advance by Steve, ever the professional, Mary puts aside her feelings for him in support of her client, the bride.
Wedding planning continues until the wedding day when Steve is able to convince Bridgett that they have grown apart and both want different things out of life. Before walking down the aisle, they amicably part and the relieved bride is seen departing the wedding in her gown stuffed into a cab. Steve also leaves his wedding in search of Mary, whom he has learned from the other wedding planner, is at City Hall saying her own wedding vows. Convinced the wedding of Steve and Fran would go on she separately decides to accept her father’s choice of groom for her. At the altar, her father gives her permission to make her own choices and she walks away.
Now that each are no longer betrothed it leaves space for the happily ever after ending when the two meet at the site of their first date. The rest they say is history. If you are interested in seeing another bridal comedy, you should definitely rent the "Bridesmaids" movie, it is good for some more laughs.