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The Wedding Cottage (2023) on Hallmark Channel – Plot, Cast, Premiere Date

The Wedding Cottage is a new Hallmark Channel original movie premiering on April 15, 2023. It is part of the network’s annual Spring into Love programming event, which features other original films in the lineup. Get details on the plot, cast and more below, plus see photos and a trailer.

What is The Wedding Cottage about?

To launch her new book “Tying the Knot: A Wedding Guide,” Vanessa Doyle (Erin Krakow) holds a contest where one lucky couple gets an all-expense paid wedding. The winning couple must be married quickly because the groom (Drew Henderson, “Candid About Love”) is being deployed and the bride (Matreya Scarrwener, “Mid-Love Crisis”) finishes grad school in a few weeks. When they choose The Wedding Cottage for their special day, Vanessa doesn’t know it’s been closed for years and is in disrepair.

Evan Sutherland (Brendan Penny), the artist who inherited the cottage from his grandmother, is using it as a temporary living space while he tries to figure out his next masterpiece. He has no intention of reopening, but Vanessa is determined to get her clients their dream wedding, and wants to restore the cottage. She uses her charm to convince Evan to repair the place and builds relationships with Stony Brook residents to create a magical wedding for the bride and groom. As Vanessa and Evan grow closer, they realize how much The Wedding Cottage has meant to them and the town.

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Who’s in the Cast of The Wedding Cottage?

Erin Krakow as Vanessa Doyle

Erin Krakow is an American actress known for Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart, which is going into its tenth season. She graduated from the esteemed Juilliard School and is a classically trained actress. Another role fans may know Erin from is her recurring role on Lifetime’s Army Wives. In addition to When Calls the Heart, she’s starred in a variety of movies for Hallmark including A Summer Romance, Sense, Sensibility & Snowmen and It Was Always You.

When she’s not filming in Vancouver, she resides in LA. In January of this year, she and When Calls the Heart co-star (and rumored boyfriend) Ben Rosenbaum adopted a puppy together. “Meet Willoughby. We adopted him a week ago and I already can’t imagine life without him. 😍,” Erin captioned the adorable Instagram post.

Brendan Penny as Evan Sutherland

Brendan Penny is a Canadian actor known for his roles in Motive, Whistler and the Hallmark Channel original series Chesapeake Shores. Also for Hallmark, Brendan starred in A Dash of Love, Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe, Easter Under Wraps and most recently, 2022’s In Merry Measure.

While he doesn’t post much about his personal life, he did share a text between him and his wife back in 2013 as his first IG post. Then, in 2017, he posted a photo of his kids with the caption “When you arrive in a 8hr time zone difference after travelling for 14hrs straight.”