The Wedding Planner

Mary Fiore is a highly regarded wedding planner in San Francisco, entirely devoted to the weddings of her wealthy clients and with little time for a personal life of her own. After a chance meeting in which a pediatrician named Steve Edison comes to her aid, she develops feelings for him. She then discovers that he is engaged to one of her newest clients, a rich and demanding woman whose wedding Mary has been hired to arrange. As Mary works on the wedding preparations, she and Steve keep being drawn into situations together, pushing them to confront the connection between them.

The film was directed by Adam Shankman, the first title in the directing filmography listed for him, followed by A Walk to Remember, Bringing Down the House, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Pacifier, Hairspray, Bedtime Stories, Rock of Ages, What Men Want, Disenchanted, Stop! That! Train! and The Man with the Bag. The screenplay is by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, and the producers are Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy and Jennifer Gibgot. Jennifer Lopez plays Mary and Matthew McConaughey plays Steve, with supporting turns from Justin Chambers, Joanna Gleason, Lou Myers and Kathy Najimy. The production involved American, British and German companies.

Made for a budget of around 35 million dollars, the film took roughly 95 million dollars worldwide, a strong return on its cost. Audiences rate it modestly: on IMDb it holds 5.4 out of 10 from about 93,000 votes, while on TMDB it scores 5.9 from a much smaller pool of voters. A critics' rating of 4.3 out of 10 from 105 reviews places it below even the audience scores.