In the weeks leading up to their wedding, Gabriel Pernoud and Alicia Drummond work to put a number of issues to rest concerning not just themselves, but their family situations. Their mothers, two women who are as different as night and day, become the focus of their lives as they come to grips with Gabriel's mother having been away for so long when he truly did need her while he was being raised by his older brothers, and Alicia's mother being a controlling idealist.

Adding to the drama, the couple discovers that they produced an addition to their little family well before schedule which will force other decisions to be made well in advance of previous plans.

And, as usual in the Pernoud and Drummond clans, family members are constantly underfoot and giving unsolicited advice.