The Wedding Planner Mystery Series: Unveiling Intrigue

Wedding Planner Mystery is a novel-turned-movie that revolves around the life of wedding planner Mallory Shepard, who is also a lawyer and an amateur detective. The story begins with Mallory discovering her fiancé's infidelity, forcing her to cancel their wedding. Soon after, she inherits Thistle Park, a mansion in her ex-fiancé's hometown, which she aims to renovate and sell. However, her life takes an unexpected turn when she encounters a dead body at Thistle Park, leading her down a path of mystery and suspense. The novel was adapted into a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original, starring Erica Durance, Andrew Walker and Brandon Beemer. The movie deviates slightly from the novel, as it focuses on a prominent family embroiled in a high-profile fraud scandal, with Carnegie Kincaid, a wedding planner and perfectionist, becoming a suspect in a possible murder case.

Wedding Planner Mystery movie

Wedding Planner Mystery: The Movie

Erica Durance stars in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original, 'Wedding Planner Mystery', based on Deborah Donnelly's novel, 'Veiled Threats'. Carnegie Kincaid (played by Durance) is a perfectionist wedding planner who finds herself embroiled in a high-profile fraud scandal when a prominent family she is planning a wedding for becomes entangled in mystery.

Plot

Carnegie's life is turned upside down when a murder occurs, a bride is kidnapped, and she becomes a suspect. She is questioned by the police and pursued by a shady news reporter, Aaron Gold (Andrew W. Walker). Carnegie is convinced that whoever committed the crime is now out to get her. As she struggles to clear her name, she is hounded by a hard-boiled detective (Rick Ravanello) and a handsome lawyer (Brandon Beemer) who attempts to woo her.

Reception

Reviews describe the film as "clean and fun", with enough complications in the plot to keep you guessing. One review states, "you can stay occupied with wondering if the wedding will ever happen and which characters are good and which are evil".

Wedding Planner Mystery book series

The Wedding Planner Mystery is a fiction book series by Stephanie Blackmoore. The series follows lawyer, wedding planner, and amateur detective Mallory Shephard. The first book in the series, "Engaged in Death", introduces Mallory as she discovers her fiancé is cheating on her and has to cancel her wedding plans. When she inherits the Thistle Park mansion, Mallory is determined to fix it up and sell it for a profit. However, her plans are derailed when a dead body is found at Thistle Park, and she becomes entangled in a mystery that she must solve with the help of her sister Rachel.

The second book in the series, "Murder Wears White", finds Mallory almost done with the renovations on Thistle Park and starting her own wedding planning business. She hopes to use the mansion as a B&B to accommodate her clients. However, things start to go wrong when the bride's aunt is poisoned at a wedding tasting, and Mallory finds herself in the middle of another mystery. As she investigates, she discovers that this is not the first murder in the bridal family, and she becomes determined to solve both crimes before the wedding.

The third book, "Murder Borrowed, Murder Blue", features Mallory planning a celebrity wedding at her Pennsylvania B&B on Valentine's Day. However, things take a deadly turn when the maid of honor drops out of the wedding party—by dropping dead. Mallory must juggle her investigation with everything from a meddling mother to a side project making arrangements for a high school Winter Ball.

The fourth book in the series, "Gown with the Wind", finds Mallory planning a wedding for her ex-boyfriend and his fiancée, Becca. Becca decides to switch from a Japanese-cherry-blossom theme to a "Gone with the Wind" theme to honour her ailing grandmother, but complications arise when Becca gets into a fight with an old rival over a replica Scarlett O'Hara wedding gown. When the other woman is found dead in Becca's swimming pool, Mallory must once again put on her detective hat and solve the mystery.

The fifth book, "Marry Christmas Murder", follows Mallory as she organizes a Christmas Eve wedding for her best friend, Olivia. Things get complicated when Mallory's mom wants to use her daughter's connection to get a job staging homes, and the current stager is not happy about the prospect of being replaced. When the endangered employee falls ill after drinking spiked punch at a party, Mallory is on the case once more.

The sixth and final book in the series, "Veiled in Death", finds Mallory engaged in solving a murder mystery instead of planning her own wedding. When she discovers a piece of old lace at a Port Quincy antique shop, she intends to use it as a headpiece. However, a conflict arises when another woman claims it as a family heirloom. The situation becomes even more complicated when the veil is attributed to famed seamstress Betsy Ross, and Mallory finds herself entangled in a historical mystery.

Wedding Planner Mystery characters

The Wedding Planner Mystery, based on Deborah Donnelly's novel "Veiled Threats", stars Erica Durance as Carnegie Kincaid, a perfectionist wedding planner caught in a mix of danger, mystery, and romance. When a murder occurs and a bride is kidnapped at the wedding of a prominent family embroiled in a high-profile fraud scandal, Carnegie becomes a suspect. She is questioned by a hard-boiled detective, Rick Ravanello, and pursued by a shady news reporter, Aaron Gold (played by Andrew W. Walker).

Carnegie is also wooed by a handsome lawyer, Holt (Brandon Beemer), and struggles to clear her name. She juggles her wedding planner duties and detective work while entertaining a romance with the Parry family lawyer, Holt. She eventually gets help from her BFF Lily (Karen Holness) and later, Aaron.

The movie also features Nicky Parry (Chelan Simmons), Douglas's daughter and heir; Douglas Parry (Billy Mitchell), the patriarch of the family; and Keith (John Treleaven), Douglas's former partner and friend. Michelle Parry (Barbara Kottmeier) is Douglas's cousin and bridesmaid, and her boyfriend is played by Clayton James.

Wedding Planner Mystery author

The "Wedding Planner Mystery" series is written by Stephanie Blackmoore. The series includes six books:

• "Engaged in Death" (2016)
• "Murder Wears White" (2017)
• "Murder Borrowed, Murder Blue" (2018)
• "Gown with the Wind" (2018)
• "Marry Christmas Murder" (2019)
• "Veiled in Death" (2020)

The series follows Mallory Shepard, a professional wedding planner, and her wedding planning business. The books are filled with mystery and intrigue, with "Engaged in Death" described as "spellbinding from page one".

The "Wedding Planner Mystery" is also a TV movie released in 2014 by Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. The movie is based on Deborah Donnelly's novel "Veiled Threats". It stars Erica Durance as Carnegie Kincaid, a perfectionist wedding planner, who becomes a suspect in a murder investigation.

Wedding Planner Mystery plot

The plot of the "Wedding Planner Mystery" centres around Carnegie Kincaid, a quirky but lovable struggling wedding planner who needs every wedding to keep her business afloat. Carnegie is a perfectionist in both her work and her quest for romance. She truly believes in fairy-tale love and will do whatever she can to ensure her clients get their dream weddings.

Carnegie has just landed a job planning two weddings for the same rich family, the Parrys, with just two weeks between them. The family is embroiled in a high-profile tax evasion scandal, which has caused a rift between Nicky, whose wedding is the second of the two, and her father. Despite this, Nicky still wants her father's former business partner, Keith Gutherbridge, who she is very close to, to attend her wedding. Carnegie is used to dealing with unwanted attention at weddings but is taken aback by the presence of investigative reporters, particularly the persistent and annoying Aaron Gold, who is looking for dirt on the family's scandal.

During the first wedding, a bridesmaid, Michelle, gets into an argument with her boyfriend and takes her cousin's car for a drive, which ends in a fatal accident. The police get involved, and Carnegie may be held liable for the accident. However, she suspects that Nicky's car was tampered with and that the accident was meant to kill Nicky. With her livelihood and life potentially at stake, Carnegie decides to investigate, with the help of her best friend, Lily, a librarian. She also enlists the help of Aaron, who is still looking for a big story. Carnegie's life soon becomes a mix of danger, mystery, and romance as she realises that the culprit may be out to get her too, and she finds love with the handsome family lawyer, Holt Walker.

Throughout the movie, there is a mix of suspense, humour, and romance as Carnegie attempts to solve the mystery, clear her name, and find true love.

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