Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Carmichael/Smooter.Andrew is engaged to a girl named Erin Vanderbilt. They return to what would have been Melanie and Andrew's reception, and finally, have their first dance as husband and wife.Ī mid-credits sequence shows that they have a baby daughter, Melanie continues to thrive as a designer, and Jake opens a 'Deep South Glass' franchise in New York. Melanie finds Jake at the beach planting lightning rods in the sand during a rainstorm to create more glass sculptures. She and Andrew wish each other well, though Kate berates Andrew and insults Melanie, her family, and the entire town, for which Melanie punches her in the face. Melanie confesses that she still loves Jake and cancels the wedding. He has the divorce papers, which Melanie never signed. Melanie realizes Jake is the artist and that he owns the resort.ĭuring Melanie and Andrew's wedding at the Carmichael estate, a lawyer arrives and halts the ceremony. While visiting a nearby restaurant/resort with a glassblowing gallery, they admire the glass sculptures that are similar to ones they have seen in New York. Melanie's New York friends arrive for the event. He later returns, saying he still wants to marry Melanie, and the wedding is immediately set in motion.

She and Jake have a heart-to-heart talk, and Melanie understands why he never signed their divorce papers.Īndrew arrives to surprise Melanie, but upon learning her true background and that she never told him she was married, he angrily leaves. Intimidated by the city and her success, he returned home to make something of himself first.

Melanie reconciles with her friends and learns that after she split with Jake, he had followed her to New York to win her back. Bobby Ray backs up her pretense that she is a relative and the family mansion is her childhood home. She is cornered there by Kate's assistant, sent there to gather information on Melanie's background. Melanie goes to the Carmichael plantation and apologizes to Bobby Ray, whose family lives there. Jake scolds her and takes her home, preventing her from driving drunk, and Melanie wakes to find the signed divorce papers on her bed. Melanie follows and gets drunk, insults her old school friends, and outs her longtime friend, Bobby Ray. Jake is angry and leaves to meet some friends at a local bar without signing the papers. After Jake orders Melanie out of his house, Melanie empties Jake's checking account, hoping to spur him into ending the marriage. Melanie visits Jake, who has repeatedly refused to sign divorce papers over the years since Melanie left for New York.

Meanwhile, Kate Hennings, Andrew's mother and the Mayor of New York City, doubts Melanie's suitability to wed her son, whom she is grooming to run for President of the United States. After wealthy Andrew Hennings proposes, Melanie returns to Alabama to announce her engagement to her parents and finalize a divorce from her husband Jake, whom she married as a pregnant teenager and left after she miscarried their baby. In the present day, Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who has adopted the surname 'Carmichael' to hide her poor Southern roots. Jake asserts that they will be married one day. On a beach in the fictional town of Pigeon Creek, Alabama, 10-year-olds Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter inspect the result of lightning striking sand.

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