In 1985, Robbie Hart is a wedding singer from Ridgefield, New Jersey. He is engaged to his long-time girlfriend who was attracted to him at a time when he dreamed of becoming a rock star. He meets and befriends Julia Sullivan, a waitress at the reception hall were he reguarly performs and who is also engaged. With both planning to be married but to the wrong people, fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.