First of all, the plot wasn't bad. I wish the had more of a build up of Catherine's obsession with the Brandon instead of her after him right off the bat. And Lindsay...she should have said good riddance to the groom. This guy wouldn't listen to her try to tell her side of the story at all. He's a jerk. Why didn't they look at the security footage first? When they arrested Catherine at the end, no climax there at all. And her constant smirks were too much to take. These people are actors, supposedly. They at least need to lose their Canadian accents for the movie. It was supposed to be set in Pennsylvania.
7 Reviews
Mix between drama and suspense
kyleallencole912 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This typical lifetime movie was pretty decent.
Has the same plot as a few others, a deranged woman plots to steal away a close friends fiance by any means necessary.
Tenika Davis plays the bride who knows she has been set up and spends the movie trying to clear her name and win her fiance back. From the very beginning you know the villainous character is the brides good friend Catherine, who also works with the brides fiance.
She committed a few murders here and there but that was about it.
What was disappointing to me, is that her take down at the end was too easy. Especially for someone who played the villain perfectly well, I think there should of been a huge fight between the girls at the end, like most other lifetime movies have.
Otherwise not a bad movie.
Has the same plot as a few others, a deranged woman plots to steal away a close friends fiance by any means necessary.
Tenika Davis plays the bride who knows she has been set up and spends the movie trying to clear her name and win her fiance back. From the very beginning you know the villainous character is the brides good friend Catherine, who also works with the brides fiance.
She committed a few murders here and there but that was about it.
What was disappointing to me, is that her take down at the end was too easy. Especially for someone who played the villain perfectly well, I think there should of been a huge fight between the girls at the end, like most other lifetime movies have.
Otherwise not a bad movie.
Boring
haroot_azarian27 June 2021
So Brandon is the dumbest man in the world and Catherine the most irritating villainess in the world! Poor Dana was the only one who could see everything. As for Lindsay she was very very slow! You won't miss anything if you don't watch this!
This movie blowed
darkmomo-8183111 November 2021
The main character was stupid and desperate. The fiance was a rude moron. The only one with brain cells was the friend Dana. Smh. Honestly this DRAGGED as well. Like way too much movie for what the plot was. And Brandon should have been alone for the rest of his life. No way in hell would I be pining over a man who didn't believe me and continued to not believe me. Nope. No thanks.
Better than a Root Canal...
cathed19 November 2021
Though they give you painkillers for the dental work. For this one, you're on your own.
The movie's problems include stilted and/or downright poor acting, a plot that seems like a collection of random plot lines from old B movies, and a pace that goes nowhere quickly.
The bad-girl lead is unable to pull off the role, the co-worker friend is a convent reject 'good girl', the bride is unlikable, the villain acts like a low-rent thug - there are no winners in the movie's main players, and though veteran actress Barbara Gordon does her usual good work, saving this movie is beyond her minor role.
Just say no.
The movie's problems include stilted and/or downright poor acting, a plot that seems like a collection of random plot lines from old B movies, and a pace that goes nowhere quickly.
The bad-girl lead is unable to pull off the role, the co-worker friend is a convent reject 'good girl', the bride is unlikable, the villain acts like a low-rent thug - there are no winners in the movie's main players, and though veteran actress Barbara Gordon does her usual good work, saving this movie is beyond her minor role.
Just say no.
VIEWS ON FILM review of The Perfect Wedding
burlesonjesse59 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
"There's so much you don't know about me". So quips a cray cray girl pal in 2021's The Perfect Wedding. Talk about the understatement of the year.
So yeah, "Wedding" gives the Lifetime Network some needed "life" support. As something about a fiancee whose nuptials are called off because she has been set up by a jealous bestie, "Wedding" is a film that wants to overshadow its TV feel, a feel of which it can't escape.
The Perfect Wedding has all the usual Lifetime perils. You got the murders (one by lethal injection), the fawning female obsessiveness, and the soap opera conniving. Hey, there's always a few people with screws loose in a Lifetime lifetime-r.
The Perfect Wedding is also like a conspiracy thriller, a sort of whodunit or who-dun-did-it. It's a flick in which a traumatizing incident happens and then the protagonist has to pick up the pieces in order to get things back to normal. Tenika Davis in the lead as Lindsay, gives a seething performance that sort of separates her from everybody else. She plays detective in "Wedding" as she sifts through the events with a Snake Eyes precision.
Bottom line: "Wedding" with its Philadelphia setting and sleuth-hound relentlessness, really wants you to take it seriously. The acting (or overacting) is standard here but hey, it's more about the story than anything else. No side character in The Perfect Wedding feels completely wasted (and there are a few of them). There's no plot detail that feels unhinged. Finally, "Wedding" moves at a decent clip as everything unfolds without too much exertion.
"Wedding's" ending is criminality snare. It feels abrupt and non-climactic but it seems amicable considering everything damaged that came before it. I mean let's face it, in a world of over 2000 past Lifetime pics nothing ever really comes out to be "perfect". Natch.
So yeah, "Wedding" gives the Lifetime Network some needed "life" support. As something about a fiancee whose nuptials are called off because she has been set up by a jealous bestie, "Wedding" is a film that wants to overshadow its TV feel, a feel of which it can't escape.
The Perfect Wedding has all the usual Lifetime perils. You got the murders (one by lethal injection), the fawning female obsessiveness, and the soap opera conniving. Hey, there's always a few people with screws loose in a Lifetime lifetime-r.
The Perfect Wedding is also like a conspiracy thriller, a sort of whodunit or who-dun-did-it. It's a flick in which a traumatizing incident happens and then the protagonist has to pick up the pieces in order to get things back to normal. Tenika Davis in the lead as Lindsay, gives a seething performance that sort of separates her from everybody else. She plays detective in "Wedding" as she sifts through the events with a Snake Eyes precision.
Bottom line: "Wedding" with its Philadelphia setting and sleuth-hound relentlessness, really wants you to take it seriously. The acting (or overacting) is standard here but hey, it's more about the story than anything else. No side character in The Perfect Wedding feels completely wasted (and there are a few of them). There's no plot detail that feels unhinged. Finally, "Wedding" moves at a decent clip as everything unfolds without too much exertion.
"Wedding's" ending is criminality snare. It feels abrupt and non-climactic but it seems amicable considering everything damaged that came before it. I mean let's face it, in a world of over 2000 past Lifetime pics nothing ever really comes out to be "perfect". Natch.
Decent movie with issues
CranberriAppl10 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Similar to Brutal Bridesmaids....but better....the villain is in love with the groom and is determined to destroy the bride. I wrote this review as I watched....
1. The villain is known upfront which doesn't leave Lifetime room to ruin it w/the captions as in Brutal Bridesmaids lol. In that one, the villain was similar in that she knew the groom first. But in that movie, that villain ( the captions give it away so IDK why I'm avoiding spoilers) and the groom interacted in the movie once. Here, at least, the villain works w/the groom and he's in the movie quite a lot, so they get a lot of face time which lends credence to her obsession with him.
2. The movie wasted no time. Catherine is a terrible friend. Dana (I think) was so much more empathetic and friend-like. Catherine is actually very inappropriate given that her "friend" just had her relationship implode. Although as the movie progresses, it seems like they are only friends through the groom, so it's not so surprising anymore that she's barely affected by what Lindsay is going through
3. I like that the bride, Lindsay, (and apparently her one good friend) are actively trying to track the guy down. She's not feeling sorry for herself to the point where she's not trying to figure out what happened. She is a good sleuth.
4. The villain doing the classic talking to herself is cheesy, and it might be happening too much. If you read my reviews, you'd see I am against unnecessary deaths (yes, on Lifetime, stop laughing), but the first death was believable. It was impulsive, but showed her mindset. I mean, now she's a murderer instead of just a trash friend, but it was clearly the act of a person obsessed who didn't want to get caught. She's also showing jealousy of the woman dear old MIL wants her son with after the breakup, so the actress is doing a decent job of portraying those classic nutty characteristics. I'm really hoping now that things are progressing that she doesn't pick up more victims. Im glad she's not an annoying psycho like in Psycho Seamstress.
5. The plot points that keep the "mystery" going aren't too bad, although they're all obviously in place to stall the plot until the right moment. One of them is really forced but I'm still watching.
6. I like that Dana (the real friend) didn't do the usual thing and confront the villain without first telling what she knows. We know that rarely ends well and as I'm watching, it still might not. Lindsay chastised her for it, so maybe Dana's still gonna fall into the bff dies trope. L said that she only wanted to keep things chill w/Catherine bc of the link to Brandon. So it's understandable she would be upset. But if the next scene where she is so obviously set up by Catherine doesn't make her see Dana is right, the movie will have its first typical Lifetime naive protag moment. It's just too blatant for her not to realize. Her eventual lightbulb moment was well done.
7. As we build to the climax, some of the Lifetime predictable tropes start appearing and I am annoyed. It's not ruining the movie, but we were doing so well avoiding them.
8. The second victim was absolutely unnecessary, but showed Catherine got cocky. I am glad the script didn't kill more people. After the second killing, the movie started drifting into typical territory so I was expecting it.
9. Wow, ok, so the climax is not as expected. The ending is abrupt, so maybe the budget didn't allow for much near the end. Then again, as I said, Catherine got cocky so perhaps it's not such a surprise how it played out. It's funny how we're conditioned to expect certain things to happen in Lifetime flicks, but at the same time, this movie did not need a climax action fight.
I didn't expect much bc as frequently as Lifetime churns them out, you run into a majority of duds. But The Perfect Wedding and My Husband's Killer Girlfriend are two of the better ones so far in 2021. MHKG is an overall tighter script. Both movies are served well by dialogue that's way more direct than usual and neither movie has a moron for a protagonist. Decent pacing and a believable plot. Nothing too far-fetched.
Some of the acting is a bit stiff and Lindsay's actress tries to add emotion. It's 50/50 cringe, but mostly successful. Catherine wasn't a cartoon in spite of talking to herself and the lurking around corners. I will say that her backstory didn't really draw a straight line from the past to the present. The sister character's actress used to be in Lifetime movies all the time.
This is clearly a C-19 movie and it sort of shows. It's not distracting, just obvious. For example we see Brandon's best man and presumed best friend twice in the movie. Within the first 20 minutes. He says he's here for B and yet is never seen again. Therefore Brandon had no one to talk to or have his back. His overbearing mother doesn't count. The movie could have at least staged some calls or texts to give Brandon a connection. Also, the movie says the name "Brandon" so many times compared to every other name.
To that point, Brandon was absolutely no prize. Granted, the scene he walked in on made Lindsay look guilty, but the guy totally flipped on her. He didn't want to hear her out pretty much the entire movie, until the magic moment where the script required him to get it. Maybe it was the actor (or the direction). A nice change of pace for this type of movie would have been him actually realizing Catherine was hitting on him and maybe playing out in his mind her potential involvement in everything that happened i.e. The photos, the coffee maker, etc. Bro was an idiot, and the only thing that saved him was that he never actually pursued anything with Crazy Cathy or poor Brooke.
I don't know if the title fits the actual storyline, but I would probably watch it again. I do think that the movie took too long for Lindsay to discover that it was Catherine all along, particularly since Dana (the mvp of the movie) planted the seed about how off Catherine's behavior was. She should have been suspicious the moment C suggested showing Brandon her camera photos. And as I said before, she was so clearly not the same type of friend as Dana. How did Lindsay not notice she wanted Brandon?
Not that it matters, but I also hope that their "perfect wedding" happened after some couples counseling. Even though they were set up, their relationship was destroyed, so I don't think it's as simple as calling the wedding back on.
1. The villain is known upfront which doesn't leave Lifetime room to ruin it w/the captions as in Brutal Bridesmaids lol. In that one, the villain was similar in that she knew the groom first. But in that movie, that villain ( the captions give it away so IDK why I'm avoiding spoilers) and the groom interacted in the movie once. Here, at least, the villain works w/the groom and he's in the movie quite a lot, so they get a lot of face time which lends credence to her obsession with him.
2. The movie wasted no time. Catherine is a terrible friend. Dana (I think) was so much more empathetic and friend-like. Catherine is actually very inappropriate given that her "friend" just had her relationship implode. Although as the movie progresses, it seems like they are only friends through the groom, so it's not so surprising anymore that she's barely affected by what Lindsay is going through
3. I like that the bride, Lindsay, (and apparently her one good friend) are actively trying to track the guy down. She's not feeling sorry for herself to the point where she's not trying to figure out what happened. She is a good sleuth.
4. The villain doing the classic talking to herself is cheesy, and it might be happening too much. If you read my reviews, you'd see I am against unnecessary deaths (yes, on Lifetime, stop laughing), but the first death was believable. It was impulsive, but showed her mindset. I mean, now she's a murderer instead of just a trash friend, but it was clearly the act of a person obsessed who didn't want to get caught. She's also showing jealousy of the woman dear old MIL wants her son with after the breakup, so the actress is doing a decent job of portraying those classic nutty characteristics. I'm really hoping now that things are progressing that she doesn't pick up more victims. Im glad she's not an annoying psycho like in Psycho Seamstress.
5. The plot points that keep the "mystery" going aren't too bad, although they're all obviously in place to stall the plot until the right moment. One of them is really forced but I'm still watching.
6. I like that Dana (the real friend) didn't do the usual thing and confront the villain without first telling what she knows. We know that rarely ends well and as I'm watching, it still might not. Lindsay chastised her for it, so maybe Dana's still gonna fall into the bff dies trope. L said that she only wanted to keep things chill w/Catherine bc of the link to Brandon. So it's understandable she would be upset. But if the next scene where she is so obviously set up by Catherine doesn't make her see Dana is right, the movie will have its first typical Lifetime naive protag moment. It's just too blatant for her not to realize. Her eventual lightbulb moment was well done.
7. As we build to the climax, some of the Lifetime predictable tropes start appearing and I am annoyed. It's not ruining the movie, but we were doing so well avoiding them.
8. The second victim was absolutely unnecessary, but showed Catherine got cocky. I am glad the script didn't kill more people. After the second killing, the movie started drifting into typical territory so I was expecting it.
9. Wow, ok, so the climax is not as expected. The ending is abrupt, so maybe the budget didn't allow for much near the end. Then again, as I said, Catherine got cocky so perhaps it's not such a surprise how it played out. It's funny how we're conditioned to expect certain things to happen in Lifetime flicks, but at the same time, this movie did not need a climax action fight.
I didn't expect much bc as frequently as Lifetime churns them out, you run into a majority of duds. But The Perfect Wedding and My Husband's Killer Girlfriend are two of the better ones so far in 2021. MHKG is an overall tighter script. Both movies are served well by dialogue that's way more direct than usual and neither movie has a moron for a protagonist. Decent pacing and a believable plot. Nothing too far-fetched.
Some of the acting is a bit stiff and Lindsay's actress tries to add emotion. It's 50/50 cringe, but mostly successful. Catherine wasn't a cartoon in spite of talking to herself and the lurking around corners. I will say that her backstory didn't really draw a straight line from the past to the present. The sister character's actress used to be in Lifetime movies all the time.
This is clearly a C-19 movie and it sort of shows. It's not distracting, just obvious. For example we see Brandon's best man and presumed best friend twice in the movie. Within the first 20 minutes. He says he's here for B and yet is never seen again. Therefore Brandon had no one to talk to or have his back. His overbearing mother doesn't count. The movie could have at least staged some calls or texts to give Brandon a connection. Also, the movie says the name "Brandon" so many times compared to every other name.
To that point, Brandon was absolutely no prize. Granted, the scene he walked in on made Lindsay look guilty, but the guy totally flipped on her. He didn't want to hear her out pretty much the entire movie, until the magic moment where the script required him to get it. Maybe it was the actor (or the direction). A nice change of pace for this type of movie would have been him actually realizing Catherine was hitting on him and maybe playing out in his mind her potential involvement in everything that happened i.e. The photos, the coffee maker, etc. Bro was an idiot, and the only thing that saved him was that he never actually pursued anything with Crazy Cathy or poor Brooke.
I don't know if the title fits the actual storyline, but I would probably watch it again. I do think that the movie took too long for Lindsay to discover that it was Catherine all along, particularly since Dana (the mvp of the movie) planted the seed about how off Catherine's behavior was. She should have been suspicious the moment C suggested showing Brandon her camera photos. And as I said before, she was so clearly not the same type of friend as Dana. How did Lindsay not notice she wanted Brandon?
Not that it matters, but I also hope that their "perfect wedding" happened after some couples counseling. Even though they were set up, their relationship was destroyed, so I don't think it's as simple as calling the wedding back on.
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