Scott Wallace, editor of the Keowah County Bugle and Banner, unexpectedly finds himself covering the wedding of Meredeth Kendrick, the daughter of a successful local businessman, John Ross Kendrick, and his social-climbing wife, Merilee. Scott has enough to worry about and considers this task a two-hour fluff piece to make his publisher happy, until he meets the Kendrick family and becomes entangled in their family secrets. Matters get especially dicey when three uninvited people from Mississippi show up, claiming to be distant relatives visiting for the wedding, and then one of them ends up murdered. Who is this man, who killed him, and how will this affect the wedding of the year?