‘Love Wedding Repeat’ Director Dean Craig Explains Which Ending is the “Real” Ending

Warning: This article contains Love Wedding Repeat spoilers. Hopefully, you knew that from the headline.

Netflix’s new British romantic comedy, Love Wedding Repeat, comes with two endings for the price of one. Written and directed by Dean Craig, who also brought you Death At a Funeral, the film starts out as your average ensemble rom-com. But half-way through the film, Craig resets the clock and tells a different version of the story. Suddenly, this is not your typical rom-com any longer.

So what is real? What is not real? As my good friend Oprah Winfrey says in that one gif: What is the truth? If that surprise move left you a tad confused, don’t worry: I am here to help. Decider spoke with writer/director Dean Craig himself, and we have definitive answers for you regarding which Love Wedding Repeat ending is the real ending, whether there were ever alternate versions, and what the deal with the Love Wedding Repeat end credits is. Without further ado, let’s get into that Love Wedding Repeat ending, explained.

What is the Love Wedding Repeat plot? What is Love Wedding Repeat about?

Jack (Sam Claflin) is determined to make the wedding of his sister Hayley (Eleanor Tomlinson) a good one. That’s easier said than done, especially when Hayley’s wild ex-boyfriend Marc (Jack Farthing) shows up uninvited. Jack would rather focus on trying to woo his crush, an American journalist named Dina (Olivia Munn), but Hayley convinces him to drug Marc with a strong sleeping pill instead. Jack does this by pouring the drug into Marc’s champagne glass before the reception. But when some kids mix up the reception table placards as a fun prank, Jack accidentally drugs Hayley’s maid of honor Bryan (Joel Fry) instead. This is why you don’t invite kids to weddings, people.

At first, the reception proceeds normally, even though the seating is unfortunate. Jack is sitting next to his ex-girlfriend Amanda (Freida Pinto), who is still in love with Jack. This sends Amanda’s new boyfriend Chaz, who is sitting across the table, into a fit of jealously. Meanwhile, Dina, who Jack would like to be sitting next to, is sitting next to a man named Sidney (Tim Key). Sidney bores Dina with long, uncomfortable stories about his coworkers. Bryan is sitting next to a frank woman he doesn’t like named Rebecca (Aisling Bea). And to top it all off, Marc is sitting next to Sidney, which isn’t really significant, except for the part where he’s not sitting in the seat where the champagne glass is drugged. That seat belongs to Bryan.

Bryan starts to pass out from the sleeping pill. Dina gets a call from work and leaves before Jack can properly woo her.  Chaz punches Jack. Amanda head butts Jack. Marc does cocaine, steals microphone during the terrible maid of honor speech, and announces that he and Hayley had sex less than a week ago. When she doesn’t deny it, Hayley’s groom Roberto (Tiziano Caputo) storms out of the room and onto a balcony. Then, in his anger, he trips and falls, seemingly to his death.

How does Love Wedding Repeat end? What is the Love Wedding Repeat ending, explained?

The screen freezes on Roberto’s fall, which comes about an hour into the film. Our narrator (voiced by Penny Ryder) informs us that this is what happens from just one bit of bad luck with the seating arrangement. But, she says, things could have gone differently if the seating of those eight people had been tweaked just slightly. The film rewinds, and we start all over again.

We see a very quick montage of several different alternate versions of the film. There is a version where Rebecca is drugged, Amanda turns down a proposal from Chaz, and Jack gets rejected by Dina. There’s a version where Dina is drugged, Jack hooks up with Rebecca, and Hayley and Amanda get into a screaming match. There’s a version where Sidney is drugged and Marc pushes an old lady off a table. And there’s a version where Marc is drugged—like he was supposed to be—and yet, somehow, this still leads to Dina rejecting Jack at the end of the night, presumably because she still receives that urgent call from work.

But the version where it all works out is the one where Jack accidentally drugs himself. Barely holding onto consciousness, he insults Dina by falling asleep while she’s telling a deeply personal story about her mom dying. Dina storms off to the bar to get drunk, where Sidney bores her with more work stories. Bryan has a heart-to-heart with a nearly-sleeping Jack. Then Hayley has a heart-to-heart with a nearly-sleeping Jack. Jack tells her that if Roberto really loves her, she’ll forgive him for sleeping with Marc.

Jack—now slightly more awake thanks to coffee—manages to stop Marc from ruining the wedding by having his own heart-to-heart. Jack pleads with Marc to let Hayley be happy. Marc listens and doesn’t ruin the wedding. There is no storming out, and no Roberto dying. Bryan and Rebecca hook up. Chaz and Amanda maturely break up. Sidney learns to listen to women. And Dina, who was too drunk to notice her calls from work, finally accepts Jack’s advances. They all live happily ever after.

Which Love Wedding Repeat ending is the real ending?

That’s the question, isn’t it? Is it the tragic ending we saw the first time around? Is it the happily ever after we saw the last time around? Or is it one of the many versions we didn’t get to see in the middle? According to writer/director Dean Craig, that’s up to you. But also, it’s probably the happily ever after ending.

“One of the fun things about a film like this is that you can explore totally different outcomes of the same event, and they’re all possible,” Craig wrote in an email to Decider. “But I’d like to think that things turned out the way they should in the end.” Love wins again!

What about the Love Wedding Repeat end credits? Are those clips from more alternate endings?

Yes. As Craig told Decider, “There was an entire alternate version of the wedding that we decided not to include in the final edit. You can see glimpses of it in the end credits. Some of the things that happened were very unexpected, but I won’t tell you how it all ended up. Maybe we’ll release it one day.”

Does Roberto die in the first Love Wedding Repeat ending?!

Sorry to all you hardcore Roberto fans out there, but Craig told Decider that, yes, Roberto most likely died from the fall.

“Yes,” Craig replied, when asked if our sweet Italian boy met his final fate in that first ending. “Or if he didn’t, then he would at the very least have been in pretty bad shape. It was quite a fall. We almost put the complete drop in the final film, but it felt just a little bit too grim.” RIP.

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