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On a beach in Pigeon Creek, Alabama, 10-year-olds Jake Perry (Thomas Curtis) and Melanie Smooter (Dakota Fanning) inspect the result of lightning striking sand. Jake asserts that they will be married one day.

The Present Situation

In the present, Melanie (Reese Witherspoon) is a New York fashion designer who has adopted the surname “Carmichael” to hide her poor Southern roots. After wealthy Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey) proposes, Melanie returns to her hometown to Pigeon Creek, Alabama, to announce her engagement to her parents Earl and Pearl Smooter (Fred Ward and Mary Kay Place) and to finalize her divorce from her estranged husband Jake (Josh Lucas), whom she married as a pregnant teenager and left after she miscarried their baby. Meanwhile, Kate Hennings (Candice Bergen), Andrew’s mother and current 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.

Unveiling the Truth

Melanie visits Jake, who has refused to sign divorce papers over the years since she left for New York. After he orders her out of the house, Melanie empties Jake’s checking account, hoping to spur him into ending the marriage. Angry, Jake leaves to meet some friends at the local bar. Melanie follows and gets drunk, insults her old school friends, and outs her longtime friend, Bobby Ray (Ethan Embry). 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 goes to the Carmichael plantation and apologizes to Bobby Ray, whose family lives there. She is cornered there by Kate’s assistant Barry Lowenstein (Kevin Sussman), who is sent to gather information on Melanie’s background, posing as a reporter for the New York Post. Bobby Ray backs up her pretense that she is a relative and the family mansion is her childhood home. Melanie reconciles with her friends and learns that after she split with Jake, he followed her to New York to win her back. Intimidated by the city and her success, he returned home to make something of himself first. She and Jake have a heart-to-heart, and Melanie realizes why he never signed their divorce papers.

A Change of Heart

Andrew arrives to surprise Melanie, but upon discovering her true background and that she is married, he angrily leaves. He later returns, saying he still wants to marry her, and the wedding is set into motion. Melanie’s New York friends arrive. While visiting a restaurant/resort with a glassblowing gallery, they admire its glass sculptures. Melanie realizes that Jake is the artist and owns the resort.

During Melanie and Andrew’s wedding at the Carmichael estate, Wallace Buford, Melanie’s attorney, halts the ceremony. He has the divorce papers, which Melanie hadn’t signed. As Melanie is about to sign the papers, she realizes that her love for Jake is still there. She tells Andrew that she gave her heart to Jake and never got it back. She and Andrew wish each other well. Before running off to find Jake, she tells everyone who is friends and family of the bride to stick around.

A Beautiful Ending

Melanie finds Jake at the beach planting lightning rods in the sand to create more glass sculptures. She tells him they are still married, and they return to what would have been Melanie and Andrew’s wedding reception, where they have their first dance as husband and wife.