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Overattentive single father Jim is shocked to hear that his daughter, Jenni, has gotten engaged to her boyfriend Oliver. Jim calls to book the small inn on Palmetto Island, Georgia, the same place where Jim and Jenni’s mother were married before her death from cancer. The owner, Scarlett, accepts his reservation for June 1st, but abruptly dies before she can fill out the booking on the inn’s calendar. Meanwhile, television producer Margot finds out that her sister Neve plans to marry her boyfriend Dixon, an exotic dancer. She also volunteers to plan the wedding, also booking Palmetto Island, where she and Neve visited their grandmother as children. Leslie, Palmetto House's new manager, takes their booking for June 1st, unaware of the previous booking.
On the weekend of the weddings, both parties arrive and discover the double booking. Since the island is too small to accommodate two weddings, Margot initially claims the venue for Neve and Dixon, but they later agree to share the island by alternating between indoor and outdoor events. Neve reveals to Margot that she is pregnant, but asks her to keep it a secret to avoid upsetting their traditional mother Flora. At the rehearsal dinners, both parties are forced inside by a rainstorm. Jim charms Margot’s siblings and mother, frustrating Margot, who has a strained relationship with her family. Jim and Jenni perform Islands in the Stream together, disturbing Margot with the sexual undertones of the song. Afterwards, Margot makes a drunken toast; when Jim attempts to take the microphone from her, she accidentally hits Jenni in the face with it. In the morning, Jim overhears Margot criticizing Jenni’s appearance and her closeness with her dad to her family, who defend Jim. As an act of revenge, he intentionally draws out Jenni and Oliver’s ceremony so that Neve and Dixon will not be able to marry at sunset, then enlists a boat to drive past the dock where their ceremony is taking place to splash the wedding party. On a second pass, the dock collapses, dropping the family into the water.
Jim and Margot meet up later in the evening, where Margot apologizes to Jim, only for him to guiltily admit to his revenge plans. A furious Margot enlists her siblings to ruin Jenni and Oliver’s reception by destroying their wedding cake. Afterward, they have a heartfelt conversation, where each of them open up about their life problems. While they are talking, they see someone who appears to be Oliver outside the hotel kissing a bridesmaid. Margot tells Jim, who is dubious. After finding out from Oliver that he and Jenni are planning to move from Atlanta to Nashville and had been hiding it from Jim, however, he reveals the information, but implies that he witnessed the moment himself. A furious Jenni begins kissing other attendees at random, leading Oliver to do the same with a bridesmaid. Amid the chaos, it is revealed that the person Margot saw was one of Oliver’s groomsmen. Jenni angrily leaves Jim and the island behind, while Neve and Dixon complete their interrupted ceremony. At the reception, Margot fights with her mother over her emotional unavailability, revealing her sibling’s secrets in the process, while her family criticizes her for being distant from them. When she returns to her room, Jim is waiting with an alligator, which bites Margot before Jim throws it out of the hotel window. Dixon treats the injury and Margot reconciles with her family and with Jim.
When Jim discovers through social media that Jenni and Oliver have annulled their marriage, he gets a ride with Margot back to Atlanta to try to convince her to go through with the marriage. He and Jenni have a heart-to-heart, agreeing not to lie to each other anymore. She and Oliver decide not to get remarried, but still plan to move to Nashville together and remain a couple. Afterwards, Jenni reveals to Margot that Jim is romantically interested in her. The two make plans to see each other again and share a kiss before Margot returns home. The following Thanksgiving, Margot’s family, along with Jim, Jenni, and Oliver, visit her in Los Angeles and take a family photo together. Jim proposes to Margot, who instead suggests that they elope in order to avoid another wedding fiasco.
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