When NYU economics professor Rachel Chu is invited by her boyfriend Nick to go to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, she has to contend with Nick's imperious grandmother, as well as his formidable mother, neither of whom approve of her since she is not in the same class as them. Within this backstabbing environment, Rachel finds quality people who keep her sane in a world where Upper East Siders look like Mennonites, and some families are richer than God.
1. Nick
Nick is an NYU history professor who is very humble and sweet despite being a part of one of the richest families in Singapore. He has a great sense of humor and will go to the ends of the earth for the ones he cares about.
2. Oliver
Oliver is known as "the gossip" in high society Singapore. He's sort of like that dream guy best friend almost every girl wishes they had. He knows everything about everyone, and won't hesitate to spill the tea. Not to mention he knows everything about the best designers and their newest collections, so if he compliments you on your outfit he knows what he's talking about.
3. Astrid
Astrid is known as "the goddess." She was infamous back in her school years for pairing designer pieces with cheap clothes bought at a souvenir shop from whichever exotic countries she visited and making it work. Astrid continues to be everyone's style icon, with every woman in Singapore wanting to dress like her. Astrid was one of the few people Rachel felt comfortable with.
4. Sophie
Sophie is Astrid's cousin. She was really helpful towards Rachel during the bachelorette party, and her chill ways were a relieving and welcome surprise from the other catty girls at the party. Sophie, unfortunately, did not make it into the movie.
5. Kitty
Kitty Pong is fearless. Even though everyone at a wedding frowned upon it because she was just an actress dating one of the grandsons, she made friends with the princess of a middle eastern country. The princess agreed to come to Kitty's wedding, and gave her one of her rings, to the shock of the other wedding guests.
6. Charlie
Charlie is the guy everyone is hoping Astrid will end up with eventually. He's an important figure in the tech industry and helps Astrid to catch her cheating husband and his mistress, letting her escape the wedding quietly, stay in his Hong Kong apartment, and convincing his maid to keep quiet so it wouldn't get back to her family's maids. When French salespeople were rude to Astrid, he saw to it that the designer himself called the salespeople to berate them, and arranged to come himself to Astrid's fitting. He also convinced Astrid to buy 10 of their dresses even though she wasn't really crazy about ten "just to make a point." Let's just say Charlie is very strong-willed, and if he loves a woman he will treat her like a princess.
