Erin Cahill is pulling back the veil and revealing what she’d change about her own wedding day after hosting Hallmark’s new Mom’s the Bride series.
“Oh, my gosh, I loved my wedding so much. It was so perfect,” Cahill, 46, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, May 5, while promoting the upcoming Hallmark+ show premiering on Thursday, May 7.
After giving the question some thought, Cahill did admit that there was one aspect of her “perfect” day she would change if given the chance.
“I wish I had a videographer,” she confessed to Us. “Because these families are gonna have so much documentation.”
The actress noted that with every episode of Mom’s the Bride — a docuseries where daughters plan their mother’s nuptials — there were three to five cameras, which gave Cahill a little bit of wedding envy.
“They have so much stuff [on film] and their own videographers and stuff,” she said. “So that is one thing that I’m like, ‘oh, [I should’ve done that].”
The Hallmark star explained that when she married Paul Freeman in 2016, the couple had a few friends use their phones to capture their romantic moment.
Erin Cahill. Vince Guglielmo/Hallmark Media
“Mine was so tiny, it was 20 friends and 15 family,” she said of her wedding day. “So [I have] some iPhone footage that’s, like, so grainy.”
Outside of better video coverage, Cahill said she wanted to keep her party going — and shouldn’t have cut it off so early.
“I wish that we had arranged for people to stay later at ours,” she added of her second wedding dream doover.
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Cahill’s look back at her nuptials comes after she traded in her acting cap for the role of wedding planner and overall hype woman for Hallmark+’s Mom’s the Bride series.
On the show, Cahill lends her expertise and becomes a sounding board for daughters planning their mom’s dream weddings.
Every episode highlights a different mother-daughter duo and a completely unique wedding to execute, from a Christmas-themed affair to a country-focused ceremony. The thing they all have in common? Love … and maybe some tears.
Erin Cahill during the ‘Mom’s the Bride’ series premiere. Robert Clark/Hallmark Media
“I didn’t hold it together. I cried every single wedding,” Cahill told Us of filming the show, which started in October 2025 and wrapped just last month. “But somewhere between, like, mist and then just full on, [heavy breathing].”
She confessed, “At one of the weddings, I had to fully collect myself, because I was like, ‘This is so beautiful.’ It [shows] what’s possible in relationships. So no, girl, I didn’t hold it together at all.”
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Cahill explained that amid the emotional stories highlighted there are some struggles associated with trying to pull off the perfect event in such a short period of time. The Journey to You actress noted that for the premiere episode, they filmed the weekend before Christmas 2025, which she called “the best way to kick off Christmas,” but it was a lot of work.
“Logistically, they were all challenging in their own ways,” she teased. “Just for our crew, and making sure that we elevated and added to every wedding and made sure that they came off without a hitch.”
Erin Cahill and Olivia in ‘Mom’s the Bride’ country-themed episode. Vince Guglielmo/Hallmark Media
While Hallmark does lend a helping hand with every wedding, Cahill told Us that “it’s a long process” and “real weddings” with “real mothers and daughters.”
She added that unlike reality shows, Mom’s the Bride is formatted as an “unscripted docuseries where we heighten the love.”
Mom’s the Bride premieres on Hallmark+ Thursday, May 7, with new episodes airing every week.
