Aunt Adeline is determined that her niece, Laura Scott, shall have a grandiloquent wedding, a splash that the city of Baltimore will never forget. However, Laura's fiance Brady, balks, claiming that if he has to endure such a soiree, he will leave her a spinster at the altar. Their decision to elope to the other side of the world seems the perfect solution, but the fallout of that rash decision throws them into an unexpected web of trouble that becomes more tangled with circumstance and time.