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• What wish does Maddie make and how does it come true?▾

  Maddie visits the legendary Wishing Stone at St. Brigid's Well in Ireland and wishes she could be the one marrying Paul instead of Emma. She wakes up the next morning in an alternate reality where she is the bride-to-be, with no memory of how the timeline shifted — the stone's magic simply rewrote the circumstances around her wish.

• Why does Maddie ultimately give up her wish and choose James over Paul?▾

  As Maddie lives inside her wish she realizes Paul is not actually the right person for her — their relationship lacks the genuine spark and deep understanding she discovers with James, the nature photographer she keeps encountering. She sees that her feelings for Paul were rooted in longing and familiarity rather than true compatibility, and she chooses to undo the wish so everyone can end up with who they truly love.

• How does Maddie reverse the wish and return things to normal?▾

  Maddie returns to St. Brigid's Well and makes a second wish — this time asking for everything to go back to the way it was so that Paul and Emma can be together. The magic reverses and she wakes up back in the original timeline, retaining her memories of the alternate reality and her feelings for James.

• What is James's role and why does he keep crossing paths with Maddie during the alternate timeline?▾

  James is a local Irish nature and landscape photographer who is hired to shoot the wedding. The two keep running into each other during Maddie's pre-wedding activities in the Irish countryside, and their candid, unscripted interactions — far removed from the wedding planning pressure — let an honest connection form that she never experienced with Paul.