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rsadelleHoopla has a whole bunch of Hallmark movies and I (a) enjoy basic romances and (b) sometimes want to watch something that takes minimal attention and brain space. Mostly, this is fine. I watch them and move on with my life. But then I watched A Country Wedding (side note: I watched it in part because I like Autumn Reeser, but you could replace her in any scene with Lacey Chabert and no one would notice) and woke up the next morning with a lot of questions, to the point that I would consider writing post-movie fic if I were at all a horse girl.
Here's the basic plot of the movie: Sarah (Autumn Reeser), who is about to lose the horse rescue she runs on her family's farm because she can't pay the mortgage, sees on TV that her childhood best friend turned famous country singer Bradley (Jesse Metcalfe) is getting married to actress Catherine (Laura Mennell). She mails him his mother's ring, with which they married in her barn at age 13 when his parents died and he was sad he didn't have any family anymore. This reminds him that he still owns his parents' house and he decides to go home and sell it while Catherine remains in LA for her movie shoot and prepares for their small, private wedding in Italy.
Bradley decides he want his wedding to be in Sarah's barn, and she agrees to help him plan it if he helps her around the farm. Meanwhile in LA, Catherine and her agent Margaret (Lauren Holly) are busy planning the giant wedding with voluminous publicity that Bradley doesn't want. At every turn of planning, he is completely unable to answer any of Sarah's questions about what Catherine likes. Sarah and Bradley of course fall in love and Bradley realizes this town is where he's supposed to be. He tells Catherine he's going to build a studio there to write his music. Catherine shows up, along with several trucks worth of things for the wedding and a plan to get rid of Sarah, and Bradley breaks up with her at the rehearsal. Sarah loses the farm, which now belongs to Bradley because Catherine somehow bought it in his name (none of this makes any sense) as part of her plan, but comes back for the wedding to find that Bradley has decked out the entire barn with all of her favorite things and people and bought her the perfect dress. They get married. This is the end of the movie.
This leaves so many unanswered questions I would read fic tackling. They had one important conversation in the course of getting to re-know each other, about whether or not they want kids (yes, of course), but there are so many other things they never talked about. Questions I have:
Look, I know that this is Hallmark and none of my questions fit with their essentially conservative ethos, but I would find them interesting to explore.
Here's the basic plot of the movie: Sarah (Autumn Reeser), who is about to lose the horse rescue she runs on her family's farm because she can't pay the mortgage, sees on TV that her childhood best friend turned famous country singer Bradley (Jesse Metcalfe) is getting married to actress Catherine (Laura Mennell). She mails him his mother's ring, with which they married in her barn at age 13 when his parents died and he was sad he didn't have any family anymore. This reminds him that he still owns his parents' house and he decides to go home and sell it while Catherine remains in LA for her movie shoot and prepares for their small, private wedding in Italy.
Bradley decides he want his wedding to be in Sarah's barn, and she agrees to help him plan it if he helps her around the farm. Meanwhile in LA, Catherine and her agent Margaret (Lauren Holly) are busy planning the giant wedding with voluminous publicity that Bradley doesn't want. At every turn of planning, he is completely unable to answer any of Sarah's questions about what Catherine likes. Sarah and Bradley of course fall in love and Bradley realizes this town is where he's supposed to be. He tells Catherine he's going to build a studio there to write his music. Catherine shows up, along with several trucks worth of things for the wedding and a plan to get rid of Sarah, and Bradley breaks up with her at the rehearsal. Sarah loses the farm, which now belongs to Bradley because Catherine somehow bought it in his name (none of this makes any sense) as part of her plan, but comes back for the wedding to find that Bradley has decked out the entire barn with all of her favorite things and people and bought her the perfect dress. They get married. This is the end of the movie.
This leaves so many unanswered questions I would read fic tackling. They had one important conversation in the course of getting to re-know each other, about whether or not they want kids (yes, of course), but there are so many other things they never talked about. Questions I have:
- They now own two adjoining properties, each of which has its own house. Where are they going to live? Bradley was horrified by Catherine's plan to build a new house they could really live in, so clearly they have to pick one of them. They both have sentimental attachments to their own childhood homes, and Sarah's been living in her house most of her life. How do they navigate this?
- Where are they going to put Bradley's studio? They can't turn the barn into it because it's, you know, a barn that seemed to be being used for actual farm-related things before they cleaned it out for the wedding. Are they going to turn his house into a studio? Build something new?
- Obviously they're going to combine their finances now that they're married, which means she never has to worry about funding for her horse rescue ever again. Does it make her feel weird to use his money for the horse rescue? Do they have to have a lot of conversations about how that makes her feel and he insists that all he wants is for her to be happy and do her work? Does she happily take the money and maybe hire a person or two to help out?
- Bradley is a famous person who jilted his very famous and publicity-seeking fiancée at the altar. The press is going to go after him so hard, and can you even imagine what they'll do to Sarah? How does she handle that?
- Bradley is a musician, which means he'll eventually be going out on tour. Sarah runs a horse rescue. There is no way she can go with him. How do they handle that? And how on earth do they handle it when they have kids?
Look, I know that this is Hallmark and none of my questions fit with their essentially conservative ethos, but I would find them interesting to explore.