When Holly tells Robbie that Julia is marrying Glenn for his money, he unsuccessfully pursues a job at a bank. Julia and Robbie are increasingly confused by their deepening feelings for each other. During a double date with Julia, Glenn, and Julia's cousin Holly, Robbie learns from Glenn that he cheats on Julia frequently and plans to continue after they are married. However, Julia convinces him to help her with the planning and their friendship blossoms. His best friend Sammy convinces him to return to work, but he gives a depressed performance that is panned, and decides to give up wedding gigs and reneges on his promise to sing for Julia when Glenn finally sets a date. Robbie sinks into depression, causing his friends and family to be concerned. Later that day, Linda visits Robbie and reveals that she fell in love with him for his ambitions of being a rock star, and hates the idea of being married to just a wedding singer.

On Robbie's wedding day, his sister Kate informs him as he waits at the altar that Linda has changed her mind about the wedding, leaving him humiliated and emotionally devastated. He meets and befriends Julia Sullivan, a new waitress at the reception hall where he works, and promises to sing at her wedding, though her fiancГ©, businessman and bond investor Glenn Gulia, has yet to set a date. Robbie Hart is a wedding singer in Ridgefield,вЂ…NewвЂ…Jersey in 1985, whose own wedding to his fiancГ©e Linda is approaching.

Wedding singer cast