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Hallmark’s fan favorites Lacey Chabert, Autumn Reeser, and Alison Sweeney have come together for the first time to star in the crossover trilogy wherein each of them became the lead in one film and played the supporting role in the other two.
The trio played three college friends who found an antique veil that promises to find true love to its user, and aside from the channel’s “romantic” trademark, it made a subtle shift by focusing away from the common love stories and highlighting relationships towards friends and families yet the result proved that the channel’s most ambitious project yet was a success.
Hallmark Channel – Inspired By The The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
E! News Online reported that the first movie of the series, Chabert’s “The Wedding Veil” garnered 3.4 million viewers and made a milestone as the network’s most-watched non-holiday original movie premiere in over a decade, and Reeser’s “The Wedding Veil Unveiled” garnered 2.59 million viewers despite competing against the Olympics and became the highest-rated non-sports cable program on Feb. 12. Sweeney’s “The Wedding Veil Legacy” has concluded the Trilogy last Feb. 19.
Elizabeth Yost, Hallmark’s senior VP revealed in an interview with E! News that the Trilogy is inspired by her favorite movie “.”
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According to IMDb, the film is based on a novel written by Ann Brashares and directed by Ken Kwapis which showed four girlfriends passing around a pair of secondhand jeans, which magically fit each of their bodies perfectly, to remain connected despite having different paths in life.
Hallmark’s senior VP’s “passion project” came to life when Chabert and her producing partner Beth Grossbard and writers Sandra and Judith Berg thought of the idea three years ago.
“Love comes in a lot of different kinds of relationships and this sisterhood and this friendship and the love of friends is an area that we are really interested in exploring in the movies,” Yost explained.
Hallmark Channel – “The Wedding Veil” Lead Stars Talk About The Lessons They’ve Learned On Set
The Hallmark leading ladies have known each other through the entertainment industry for many years but now that the network has given them the chance to star together in the same film; the actresses claimed they’re much closer.
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When asked by PEOPLE about the lessons they have learned from their new friends while being together at work, the trio talked about how they empowered each other.
Reeser had just gotten through producing her first movie while Sweeney was producing hers while filming the trilogy, and the former said that Sweeney was her greatest lesson that year because she learned to stand in her power. “I realized how much more room there is for me to stand in my power, and for me to stand in my experience and to speak up and not be afraid of using my voice,” she revealed.
Sweeney praised Reeser for living who she is “in a very real way that is just so grounded” and Chabert for having her own way of “making every person on the crew and every person she comes across feel special.”
Chabert admitted she was impressed with how invested the girls were in the film and appreciated how they were so passionate. “And just as people, you both are strong women who I feel very lucky to know,” she added.