Anyone who has been engaged to marry for five years or longer should just give up and understand that a wedding will most likely never take place. A story of the ups and downs that occur when a couple become engaged also shows that perhaps long engagements are the answer to the high divorce rate. But this one is all in fun and the merriment surrounds our couple Violet Barnes and Tom Solomon as their relationship evolves and changes over time. iolet Barnes is portrayed by Emily Blunt who has starred in The Adjustment Bureau and Gulliver's Travels. Tom Solomon is played by Jason Segel from TV's How I Met Your Mother and Gulliver's Travels. Director Nicholas Stoller is noted for his previous work on Forgetting Sarah Marshall and as writer of Gulliver's Travels.e follow along as the pair go through the ups and downs of a relationship of a couple in their 20's and ultimately decide if they should marry. Along the way they date other people but are drawn back together. Maybe they just need to "sow their wild oats" before committing for good.