A Country Wedding Podcast
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The scene you quoted is my favorite also. The passion Autumn Reeser brought to the scene was stunning. Jesse Metcalfe’s best moment came in his sweet proposal at the end of fhe movie. The only scene that didn’t ring true was the actual wedding: the wedding guest audience was far too small, given the context of the movie, and the guests were certainly not dressed the way most Texans dress for weddings. Another small but important detail to me, there is no real town in Texas named Milltown. There is an area called the Milltown Historic District near Austin but it is a place for commercial interests and tourism. To set a movie called Country Wedding, which does feature small-town country ranching life in a town called Milltown doesn’t make sense. There are some towns in Texas that have various kind of mills though. I would be interested to know how this name was chosen. I am a Texan so these kind of things are important to me. The scenery did look authentic.
I can understand using fictional names for places; in this particular case the name struck me as being rather unbelievable for the reasons I mentioned; namely, there was no connection given between a mill and the ranching community. I am familiar with a few Texas towns with lumber mills, so I guess that is plausible. I am not aware at the moment of any Texas town that is primarily a “mill” town of any kind, although I guess there could be. Yes, Texans love to party and a wedding is the best kind of party. While you may read of rustic, country or Western themes for weddings, Texans are as sophisticated as anyone else. Take a look at some of the wedding magazines for weddings in Texas and you will see what I mean. The guests in this movie were wearing street clothes, not dress clothes. My husband wore a tuxedo and I wore a long formal dress for one of our daughters’ weddings that was held outside on a terrace at an Italian villa style house in the Hill Country. Our other daughter’s wedding and reception was somewhat more casual but still extremely elegant.
Hi, Deborah! Next time I see a Texas wedding magazine I’ll be sure to take a look! Hey, I wanted to ask you something – in the movie, near the end, Katherine tells Sarah that she’ll need to leave soon and miss the wedding so that she can take that job at that ranch in California. When Sarah leaves her ranch, she takes her suitcase with her, and goes to the bank to talk to the banker about her house being sold and that she was leaving. At this point, I’m led to believe she’s on her way to California. But she returns to the ranch with her suitcase! The suitcase made things kinda confusing for me. Why’d she bring it with her if she were returning? Just seemed weird. Then she goes back and sees Bradley and the town in the barn and he tells her that he’s not marrying Katherine and he proposes.
I thought that was strange also. I guess it was written and directed that way to make Sarah’s leaving and loss more dramatic. I will find a wedding magazine article to share with you. It has been years since I have looked at wedding magazines.
Hi, Deborah
I look forward to seeing the wedding magazine article. I sense that the scene I mentioned may have been a blooper? I feel like Sarah should have gotten a phone call or something from a one of the other characters in the movie, stating there was an emergency and she needed to return to the house. The call would have been made as a ruse to get her to return. She returns and then Brad proposes. That makes more sense. I feel they may have forgotten to film a scene which explains her return with her luggage.