We’ve seen a beautiful Italian lace veil originally made for the wife of an Italian nobleman bring love to a museum curator and an art history professor. Now it is in the possession of their friend, who works at an auction house. She is firmly a skeptic in the veil’s alleged power to bring the owner true lover Will she change her mind?
Of course she will. It’s a Hallmark movie.
How does it happen? Find out in The Wedding Veil Legacy!
I’m so glad you found me in time/And I’m so glad that you’ve rectified my mind/This will be an everlasting SPOILER!
Tracy Goodwyn (Alison Sweeney) returns to New York City from Italy following the events of The Wedding Veil Unveiled. She works in an auction house and specializes in old books and documents, so she’s thrilled when her boss Leland (Gerard Plunkett) tells her they got some new items in that are right up her alley.
Her assistant Stanley (Matty Finochio) asks her about the details of the wedding and then asks if there are wedding bells in her future. Tracy insists she’s happy with her relationship as it is. But she does need to get the veil fixed and asks Stanley to help her find a place that can do that.
Meanwhile, she finds out that her boyfriend Finn (Toby Levins) has an audition with an orchestra that is located in California. She encourages him to go on it but they don’t think he’ll get it.
But he does. Which forces a serious conversation between them. Finn wants to take the position and figures Tracy will follow him to California. But she’s happy in New York and doesn’t want to relocate to the West Coast. They realize that their lives are going in different directions and that their relationship has run its course. They part amicably but Tracy is still heartbroken.
Time for her Mr. Right to enter the picture, isn’t it?
Tracy goes to the tailor who can fix the veil, Luigi (Salvatore Vetro). He is busy with another customer, Nick Serchio (Victor Webster), and they are bantering about the Jets and the Giants. Because, you know, New York! (And it seems to finally be autumn rather than the perpetual summer of the other two movies). Tracy picks the Giants to have a good season and Luigi is happy to help her while she banters with Nick. Once Luigi takes the veil, Tracy reveals she is actually a Dolphins fan and Nick feels like she tricked them.
But she just picked the Giants, not said that she was a fan of them. It also makes sense that she would pick the Giants as the Jets play in the same conference as the Dolphins, so she wouldn’t want them to have a good season anyway.
At work, Tracy admires the new items that have arrived for auction. She’s most impressed with a handwritten early draft of “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. For those who do not know it, this is a poem that sits affixed on the base of the Statue of Liberty and describes Lady Liberty. You’ve probably heard some of the lines from it: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/the wretched refuse of your teeming shores/send these/the homeless, tempest-tossed to me/I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Tracy doesn’t want something like to just end up in some collection, locked away where people can’t enjoy it and some rich person can just brag they have it. So her boss gives her permission to find a museum willing to acquire it. Tracy is ecstatic.
But she and Stanley also have to plan a party to show off the items they acquired ahead of the auction. He convinces her to go out to a restaurant to try the food and she goes along.
This is probably when I should mention that Nick is a chef with a high end New York restaurant.
Nick and his sister Carly (Jordana Largy) are preparing to open a new restaurant, this one an Italian and Asian fusion. It’s an interesting combination and the reason for it will be revealed later. Their family already has a successful Italian restaurant and it is where Stanley takes Tracy. She loves the food and wants them to cater the party…until she meets the chef and realizes it’s Nick. She wants to back out but Stanley convinces her to use the restaurant.
Which of course means they have to spend a lot of time together because of Hallmark movie law. But Sweeney and Webster (both alums of Days of Our Lives) have great chemistry so it’s fun to watch!
They have some clashes at first. Both are pretty stubborn and prideful but they soon get past each other’s defenses and learn more about each other. They also start helping each other with work and start building a sweet friendship.
Tracy finds a museum willing to accept the Emma Lazarus but Tracy needs to find someone who will donate the money to restore and preserve it. Nick introduces her to a collector friend of his but the friend is more interested in the letters from George Washington rather than the poem. But he wishes them well and Nick talks about how his family immigrated from Italy many years ago and how they built the restaurant to what it was that day. That gives Tracy the idea to appeal to someone who immigrated to this country and she decides on tech wunderkind Ranghion Narula (Justin Singh).
Tracy scores a meeting with Ranghion but he has to cancel. But she has done her research and with Nick’s help (and some cannoli for courage), she tracks down the diner where he enjoys breakfast every Saturday and makes her pitch to him. He is interested and promises to let her know soon. She feels like she’s close to victory.
Meanwhile, she helps Nick decorate his new restaurant. He reveals he was supposed to open it with his ex-fiancée and it was supposed to reflect them – Italian and Asian. But they ended up breaking up and so he’s pursuing the restaurant on his own as he’s leaving the other one to his sister once the new one is open.
Tracy brings him to the art gallery owned by her mother, Sarah Goodwyn (Christine Cattell). She and Nick look over different paintings before being drawn to one that shows the ocean, reminding them of their time by the Long Island Sound.
Because when I think romance, I think the Long Island Sound.
Nick takes Tracy to an event his family runs – they serve spaghetti to those at a local soup kitchen. She reveals she used to be a waitress and easily helps serve everyone. Nick’s mom, Isabella Serchio (Michele Scarabelli), and his grandmother, Gia (Paula Shaw), aren’t too sure what to make of their growing relationship but they seem to like Tracy. That’s a start.
Nick also takes Tracy out for a night on the town that involves pizza and enjoying the sights of New York. He even shows her some history he’s found over the years and they just continue to bond.
Concerned by Tracy’s breakup and her sudden need to redecorate since it usually ends in decisions Tracy ends up regretting, Avery (Lacey Chabert) and Emma (Autumn Reeser) show up in New York to help her. She takes them to Nick’s restaurant and they are impressed with him. They even try to encourage Tracy to pursue Nick but she resists, even exploding when Avery and Emma mention the veil. The friends part in a sour mood.
The day of the auction arrives and Tracy is still waiting to hear from Ranghion. It seems that the Emma Lazarus draft will end up in the hands of a greedy collector who will hog it for himself. But just as the bidding is about to close, Tracy gets the call she is waiting for. She lets Leland know and the item is removed from the auction. Everyone toasts this success afterwards, including Nick. He escorts Tracy home and kisses her but she tells him that while she feels something for him, she’s not ready to pursue a romance. Nick is confused and Tracy is heartbroken.
Tracy takes her mother to the unveiling of the Emma Lazarus poem in the museum and Sarah is confused why she didn’t bring Nick. Tracy confesses what happened between her and Nick. Sarah ties her daughter’s fears to the divorce between her parents and Sarah encourages Tracy not to be afraid to love. After making up with Tracy, Avery and Emma encourage Tracy to go after Nick. Tracy races over to the opening of Nick’s restaurant and confesses her feelings for him. They share a kiss right there.
We then cut to some time later. Tracy and Nick are getting married. Emma is running late but manages to get there – though her husband will have to miss the festivities. She gets changed as she gives some updated information about the veil. And it turns out that Nick’s family is connected to the veil – it was sold to help the family open its first restaurant.
Quelle coincidence!
After learning the truth, Tracy happily dons the veil and marries Nick in his restaurant. As Peter (Kevin McGarry) welcomes Nick into the little club of husbands as Tracy, Emma and Avery gift the veil back to Nick’s family. Which is a sweet gesture but with Tracy marrying Nick, the veil is technically back in the family. And so are some sapphire earrings that Tracy had been admiring throughout the movie and that Nick ended up buying for her from the auction house. They end up being the earrings that Arianna wore in the painting and were sold along with the veil.
So happy endings all around now that all three friends have found love thanks to the veil.
This was a lovely conclusion for the trilogy (or was it?) and I enjoyed it. As I said, Webster and Sweeney had great chemistry between them that I have no doubt comes from the fact they had worked together previously. I never watched Days of our Lives except for maybe a few minutes while waiting for Passions to begin but the cursory research I’ve done doesn’t indicate their characters really interacted together. But they still likely interacted just from working together on the same soap.
Which is just a long way of saying that I would love to see Webster and Sweeney together again. And I may just get that!
The rest of the story was enjoyable if a bit predictable as the final part of a trilogy. And it seemed like a love note to New York and the immigrant experience as well.
Though it was starting to stretch things when it was revealed that Nick’s family was also related to Paolo’s and the veil. I’m glad Avery’s only connection was that she found the painting. It might have been too much otherwise.
Anyway, I still recommend this movie – and I recommend binging the entire trilogy in a marathon if possible.
But wait! There’s more!
I’m behind in reviewing this movies and in that time, Hallmark made three more movies! So now it’s a whole series. I’ll be reviewing the other three – The Wedding Veil Expectations, The Wedding Veil Inspiration and The Wedding Veil Journey – soon.
See you then!
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