Die Braut die sich nicht traut

In New York City arbeitet Ike Graham als Journalist für USA Today. Eine bissige Kolumne über eine gewisse Maggie Carpenter, die bereits dreimal einen potenziellen Ehemann vor dem Altar versetzt hat, kostet Ike den hochdotierten Job. Auf Rache sinnend, sucht er die berühmt-berüchtigte Beinahe-Braut in deren, in der tiefen Provinz gelegenen Heimatstädchen auf. Sein Ziel: eine gesalzene Home Story, die Maggie endgültig als treuloses Weib outen und seinen guten Ruf wiederherstellen soll...

Ike Graham has his own by-lined column in USA Today, which he usually uses as a forum to rail against the opposite sex. For his latest column which he writes at the last minute as usual, he, based on some information from a stranger in a bar about a woman he knows of back home, includes the story of still single Hale, Maryland residing Maggie Carpenter, who is known as the "Runaway Bride" since she has been engaged multiple times, but always leaves her betrothed standing at the altar. Because an incensed Maggie complains to the newspaper for factual inaccuracies in her story, Ike is fired, but he realizes that the story still has some life in it and thus decides to go to Hale to do further investigation. He finds that Maggie is again engaged, now for the fourth time, this time to high school football coach and adventurist Bob Kelly, who is confident enough in himself to know he will be different than the previous three grooms. When Maggie finds out that her arch enemy Ike is in town, ...