Synopsis: Randy, a talented local home-repair-show host, is turned down for a chance-of-a-lifetime network show.Happy with his life as it is, Randy’s content to stay in local television, but his social climbing fiancé, Nicole, is not.She breaks up their engagement on the spot.
In the aftermath Randy tries to piece together a new life.He continues to work on his local show, and takes on some high-profile construction projects, but his social life suffers from a lack of closure with his ex-fiancé.
When he’s contracted to renovate his Aunt’s Bridal Salon, serendipity brings him together with Nicole again.She appears at the Bridal Salon looking for a wedding planner.Shocked by her hasty engagement to a prominent and equally social-climbing politician, Randy decides drastic measures are needed to win her back.
Shut out of her life as “Randy,” he concocts the female persona of “Mistinguette (Misty) Herr” a celebrated clothing designer specializing in wedding finery.Luckily for him, his friends and family, though skeptical, are on his side.
At the bridal salon Randy is reacquainted with Claire, a designer/seamstress, a young woman who harbored a devastating crush on him in High School.Now all grown up, beautiful and accomplished, Claire is never-the-less overlooked by Randy who continues with his obsession for the “the one who got away.”Claire agrees to do the designs and sewing attributed to “Misty,” and friends and family assist Randy with tips about impersonating an arrogant, peculiar, and temperamental female designer.
Nicole and her current finance, Paul, show their insensitive natures during many encounters.Though Randy acknowledges Nicole’s bad behavior, he continues to insist this is not the “real” Nicole.The snobbish bride and groom are balanced by Paul’s quirky and caustic fourteen year old daughter and his grounded and forth-right septuagenarian mother, who share dim views of the upcoming union.
As events progress and he becomes more acquainted with all the personalities, even Randy begins to have doubts about pursuing this romance.Finally it dawns on Randy that the real woman of grace, beauty and true heart before him is Claire, the quiet seamstress.Their friendship flames to romance.
On New Year’s Eve, in the hours before her wedding, Nicole discovers a crucial part of her wedding gown is missing.Though it’s after-hours on a holiday evening, she calls “Misty” screaming like Bridezilla, and demanding help.As “Misty”, Randy explains the shop is closed for the holiday, but offers to meet Nicole there.When Nicole arrives “Misty” is nowhere in sight, and she’s greeted instead by a handsome Randy dressed in a tux.They find the missing item, and Randy wishes Nicole well on her new life, thinking “she’ll need all the luck she can get.”
Randy pulls up at Claire’s door to pick her up for a New Year’s celebration.Before he walks to the door, he pockets a sealed envelope lying on the seat beside him.
Randy and Claire arrive at the biggest New Year’s Eve party in town.As Randy waits for Claire to join him, he scans the letter he’d pocketed, smiles and nods with satisfaction.The repair guru originally hired for the national home improvement show isn’t working out.Would he consider a new offer to act as star? Over a romantic dinner for two, Randy proposes and Claire accepts.At the stroke of midnight as they dance cheek to cheek seemingly alone in the midst of the cheering crowd, Randy whispers in her ear, “Ever thought about moving to L.A.?”
