Need clarity on this 4 weddings a funeral musing

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25 year old spoilers below...but genuinely can't sleep thinking about this.

Why does Andie MacDowell cut her honeymoon short to go to the funeral? Gareth kind of knew who she was at wedding 1 but she obviously wasn't part of their friendship group. By the time it was her wedding she knew the whole group well enough to invite them all on a whole day invite (I would hope so too given their journey time from London).

I suppose he did die at her wedding. But then why wasn't Hamish with her at the funeral?

Really can't stand her. Why was she so moany about having to go to the funeral anyway. Just don't go if you can't be arsed Andie.

I have also always wondered these things.

She ruined that movie. Especially with the 'is it raining, I hadn't noticed' line. I bet if we came back two years later they'd have split up.

I have always wondered that aswell - think i always assumed it was because he died at her wedding

tipsey you will find out the answer to that question on Comic Relief night

They've made a short sequel for this year's Red Nose day - it looks as though Charles and Carrie are still together!

Don't know the answers to your questions though, Happily. Maybe Hamish didn't go because he was an MP and terribly busy donchta know?! And maybe she did go because it gave her an opportunity to see Charles again?

I've never understood how Carrie got an invite to the first 2 weddings anyway

maybe she did go because it gave her an opportunity to see Charles again?

Using the funeral of the man who died at her wedding as an opportunity to seek out the man she rejected and simultaneously ditch her new husband seems to fit with her personality. I'm so Team Fiona.

Oh if we're doing teams then am also definitely team Fi. I am going to skip that bit of comic relief then or will end up throwing popcorn at the TV.

I was even Team Duckface after Andie screwed her wedding over.

Well, if someone falls down dead unexpectedly at your wedding, especially if it's to a pompous stuffed shirt you may already be having doubts about to the point that you are reluctantly moved by a muddled declaration of love from some eejit you've slept with a couple of times just beforehand I think it might give you a bit of a reality slap in the face about only having one life etc etc....?

I've assumed we are intended to understand that Carrie's 'Oh we'll do it some other time' about the honeymoon at Gareth's funeral indicated not just that she was saddened by Gareth's death, but that his death had made her seriously doubt her wisdom in marrying the ghastly Hamish (who makes sexist jokes and talks about Margaret Thatcher in his wedding speech).

I mean, this is me being generous to Carrie, who is a total cardboard cutout character, who doesn't hang together at all (even on paper, aside from Andie McD's performance) -- she's supposed to be terribly fashionable and grand, but all her US relatives who bob up at the wedding are from the school of Comedy American Hick Dimwits, and the wedding isn't at all Vogue-y.

And the screenplay doesn't even try to make us see the slightest reason she might have wanted to marry Hamish -- even before the wedding, when she impulsively invites Charles's brother, she says it's to 'make up for all those gruesome stiffs Hamish knows'. And she's a sexual kind of person, with a lot of sexual experience, so it's hard to imagine Hamish measuring up in bed...? Ugh.

And the screenplay doesn't even try to make us see the slightest reason she might have wanted to marry Hamish

Doesn’t someone say he “owns half of Scotland” or something? I always assumed she was marrying for money.

Excellent username, MayFayner.

Maybe you're right, and it was Hamish being the gazillionaire Laird of Somewhere that interested Carrie.

I don't remember it well but if she cut the honeymoon short it was probably to avoid sex with the aul fella with the yellow teeth. That's how I remember Hamish anyway.