I Watched "Love In Every Word 2" So You Don't Have To

Today, I’ll be recapping the 2025 Nollywood movie, “Love in Every Word 2: The Wedding”.

Once upon a time, an insane Christian book that claimed the devil created football as a tool to destroy humanity trended on the internet. I did the dirty work of actually reading and recapping it. The article was so popular that I decided to make my recaps into a weekly series named “So You Don’t Have To “, where I find batshit crazy pieces of media (books, movies, etc.) and recap them for your pleasure.

I’m truly obssessed with how the photographer airbrushed them into uncanny valley territory.

The movie starts in what is obviously a Lekki shortlet. Odogwu (Uzor Arukwe) has brought Chioma (Bam Bam) to meet his village elders, but things don’t look as joyous as they should. I’m still wondering why the long faces when the elders look Chioma in the face and call her:

And I’m like,

Turns out Chioma was born out of wedlock, and Odogwu’s village elders aren’t down with that. They claim that if Odogwu, a titled man, marries such a woman, it would besmirch his family name or some shit. They insist the wedding can not happen and ask him to choose between Chioma and his title.

Chioma, who’s just been called a bastard unprovoked, is in distress because her man is about to pick a title over her. She gearing up to cry…

…but then wakes up screaming.

T’was just a nightmare.

Chioma is launching her perfume store named Arena Scents. Her family members are present in bone straight wigs of varying qualities.

That middle one in particular is diabolical.

Odogwu is also present, and his outfit is just insane.

A pair of nurse scrubs with an isiagu coat? I am STRESSED.

Chioma asks Odogwu why his mother, Mummy Odogwu, isn’t present even though he promised he’d bring her. She complains that she’s never met his mother and doesn’t know what she looks like because he’s only ever shown her a 30 year old picture of Mummy Odogwu.

He brushes it off with a joke that makes her giggle and promises that she’ll meet his mother soon. This is a thing that happens thorough out the movie, btw. She’ll complain about something, he’ll crack a joke to throw her off, she’ll say, “Odogwu, stop!” and tee-hee until she forgets what was bothering her in the first place.

Girl, stop giggling, and STAND ON BUSINESS!

The next day, Chioma gets to the store to find all the shelves empty. She gets like Marvin and asks what’s going on, and the attendant explains that she posted a snippet of Chioma’s speech from the store launch along with a song named “Achalugo” by an artist signed to Mavin Records named Boy Spyce.

Boy Spyce reposted the video to his story, and Don Jazzy reposted it to his, causing other celebrities to follow suit until the general public felt compelled to patronize the store in droves.

Dear reader, so begins the long list of super aggressive product placements in this movie.

I guess Omoni Oboli figured that if Smart Money Woman could get away with human product placement, she could too.

Chioma tells Odogwu about her business’ stroke of luck. He decides to buy her a logistics company so she can keep up with orders. And that’s how we get:

At the end of the logistics company conversation, she says, “I love you” and he replies with:

I don’t know if it was an editing error or an intentional joke, but it made me cackle.

There’s a scene where Odogwu receives a phone call from Chioma. Apropos of nothing, he says this:

We’re just getting started, you guys.

Gifts meant for Chioma are delivered to her office, along with a note. She initially thinks they’re from Odogwu but realises they’re not after reading the poem that came with them. The poem is refined and cultured. That’s not Odogwu’s style. Chioma has a secret admirer. She can’t keep the gifts, so she gives them to her assistant.

Also, peep:

The excitement on the assistant’s face is killing me. Lmao

Odogwu is at dinner with his family when Mummy Odogwu complains about Chioma being too focused on career shit. She insists Chioma should focus on bearing sons instead and starts to criticise Odogwu’s affinity for career women when her other son points out that the reason Odogwu loves the career ladies is that Mummy Odogwu herself was a career woman.

Mummy Odogwu (Patience Ozokwor, who you’ll remember has never met Chioma) doesn’t rate her and sees her as a gold digger. She doesn’t take their relationship seriously either and loudly wishes for the day his obsession with Chioma will end. Determined to prove that his love for Chioma isn’t a passing fad, he declares that he’s going to see Chioma’s relatives the following week to make his intentions to marry her known. Mummy Odogwu is not happy about this development, and her face can not hide it.

Odogwu is having a meeting with UBA staff…

…when Chioma calls to gist him about how a popular Dubai perfume company named Supreme wants Arena Scents to become their official distributor in Africa. I pause the movie here to figure out if I missed a scene of her doing juju because the luck her business has been getting since she launched is wild.

There’s a scene where Odogwu and Chioma are making out in bed.

She’s getting super into it and is ready for them to knock genitals.

But he pulls away saying:

So now, she’s like:

I feel you, sister.

The movie itself is full of scenes that have nothing to do with anything. It’s structured worse than Nigeria’s economy, and I’m fighting for my life trying to make sense of it.

Odogwu gifts Mama Chioma a house so he can ask for her daughter’s hand in marriage. He tells Chioma that he started building the house immediately after they first met because he knew he was going to marry her someday. Chioma is touched by this, but I’m like:

Wedding preparations begin. Mama Chioma and Ify (Chioma’s sister or friend??) are way more enthusiastic about things than Chioma is. Ify suggests they make a destination wedding and starts listing off locations.

While Mama Chioma is scamming the hell out of her friends in the name of aso ebi:

Meanwhile, Mummy Odogwu learns about Chioma’s true parentage and is determined to get the wedding called off. She tries to make Odogwu do it, but he doesn’t care, so she goes to their village elders. When she sense hesitation in them, she pulls out her secret weapon.

Emotional manpulation.

It works, and all the elders are gagged.

Chioma’s ex-boyfriend, Hassan (Chris Attoh), saunters into the plot. He’s the secret admirer who sent the gifts earlier and is also on the board of Supreme, the Dubai perfume company looking to partner with Arena Scents. He declares his intention to get back with her by doing this:

But she’s with Odogwu now. Also, their relationship ended when he ghosted her years into their relationship. So she’s like:

He later buys her a G-Wagon to win back her love (is everybody in this movie doing money ritual??) but she tosses the keys in his face and tells him off.

Odogwu tracks down Chioma’s father and brings him to her office. She is pissed, because, like, who sent him message? He mentions how he’s been seeing ignored calls from her dad on her phone and somehow took that as a sign that she wanted to see him (???) These calls have never been shown or even referenced before now, so we’re either witnessing shitty writing or editing. Odogwu goes to her house to apologise, she accepts, and he spends the night. Then they make us watch this sequence of him brushing his teeth just so they can show this:

Odogwu’s village elders are unable to make him cancel the wedding. So they summon Chioma, instructing her and the spirit of wedlock she carries around to leave Odogwu alone. Odogwu makes it clear he doesn’t give a shit about his family’s approval and is willing to elope with Chioma, but she refuses for the following reason:

And ends the relationship.

Chioma tries throwing herself into work to distract from the breakup but finds that the universe hates her. The Supreme Dubai deal has been cancelled. Petty ass Hassan got the deal called off when she spurned his advances.

Chioma’s life right now is straightup diarrhea, and she just can’t even. She drops everything and goes on vacation at Ziba Resort to have a heartbreak montage.

The framing of this shot (so the resort’s name is visible) is sending me into oribit.

Odogwu hasn’t given up yet, though. He gets Chioma’s location from Ify and deliberately sends his mother on vacation there so she can get to know Chioma. The thing is, Chioma has never met Mummy Odogwu and doesn’t know what she looks like. But Mummy Odogwu knows Chioma. This leads to Chioma spending the next few days unknowingly auditioning for Mummy Odogwu. They run into each at the breakfast buffet and reach for the last piece of chicken at the same time. Chioma graciously leaves it for Mummy Odogwu.

They run into each other again during lunch when a random couple is arguing loudly, and Chioma defends the woman.

Mummy Odogwu later finds Chioma reading on the beach.

After a talking for while, Mummy Odogwu decideds Chioma is good enough for her son. Odogwu shows up at the resort to find Chioma. They suck face on the beach and get back together. Mummy Odogwu reveals her identity to Chioma the next morning. They all laugh and hug, and I half-expect them to jump into a freeze frame. But that doesn’t happen, because this isn’t that type of movie (a fun one).