Meghan would later recount how stressful but satisfying she found the demands placed upon her in this, her first successful show. She was growing not only as an actress but also as a budding star. There were the demands of publicity, hair, make up, wardrobe, interacting with the cast and crew as well as everyone else whose path crossed hers. She deliberately retained a certain reserve behind a friendly and approachable facade. She was intent on being acknowledged as a team player, and made sure that her charm was never superseded by displays of ego.
In the midst of all this activity, she was also planning her wedding to Trevor, which was due to be held on the 10th September 2011 at the picturesque Ocho Rios hotel, Jamaica Inn, whose main feature is one of the finest beaches on the island. Although Meghan availed herself of the services of its in-house wedding planner, she kept her finger firmly on the pulse. ‘She is a control freak,’ a member of the staff said. ‘She was very exacting in her demands.’ Although she was perfectly pleasant, she left no room for doubt. What she wanted, she intended to get. Because the Jamaicans were more used to being micromanaged and challenged than the staff at Windsor Castle, her conduct was not viewed as being out of line, so she did not ruffle feathers the way she would later on do with her second wedding. She and Trevor had taken over the entire hotel for a four day blast, paid for in part by Tom Sr. The least part of the event would turn out to be their wedding ceremony, which ‘took all of fifteen minutes.’ The rest of the time was dedicated to hard partying and fun activities such as wheelbarrow races.
Both Meghan and Trevor were now earning good money. Suits had been commissioned for its second series and while Trevor was treading water with Amber Alert, a film that would go nowhere, Meghan was thrilled to be marrying him. The wedding she was planning would be a reflection not only of the closeness of their bond but also of their success.
Although Meghan had always aimed at presenting herself as both cool and classy, she very nearly came a cropper when she had the bright idea of distributing ganja spliffs in specially-made crocus bags inscribed with Shh…. to all of her guests. Notwithstanding its reputation as producing the finest marijuana in the Western Hemisphere, Jamaica had an ambivalent attitude to its main export. There was considerable pressure from the American authorities upon the Jamaican Government to stamp out the ganja trade, and using, possessing, distributing or trading in the drug was punishable by a long prison sentence. They were very lucky no one reported them to the Police, otherwise their festivities would have come to a quick halt and they would have ended up in a Jamaican jail. Moreover, Meghan was so cool that she didn’t bother to tell her guests what was in the crocus bags. She expected them to know. Not all of them did, and one of them took it back to the US. Only after getting through customs did they discover how Meghan had inadvertently made them into drug smugglers. They were anything but amused.
That aside, Meghan and Trevor’s wedding was a success. It established them among their circle as ‘cool, happening, and classy’ hosts, and as Trevor returned to LA and Meghan to Toronto, Nikki Priddy and all their other friends confidently expected them to remain married forever.
During the filming of the second series of Suits, however, Meghan’s life experienced another upgrade. Toronto is a much smaller and more cohesive city than LA. It also offers tax breaks to the film industry, so has a vibrancy out of all proportion to its location. An ensemble actress in a burgeoning cable series such as Suits is of far greater consequence there than she would be in the film capital of the world. If she is so inclined, she will soon be mixing with all of Canada’s elite. And Meghan was very much inclined. By the third series, she had met and become friends with Jessica Mulroney, stylist wife of Ben Mulroney, whose father had been Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and Jessica Gregoire and her husband Justin Trudeau. His father had been the former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his mother Margaret Sinclair, the hippie First Lady whose widely reported affairs with Ted Kennedy and Mick Jagger rook place against the drug-addled backdrop of Studio 54 and scandalised Canadians and Americans in equal measure, while her fling with Fidel Castro has haunted her son Justin, whose resemblance to the Communist dictator has been much commented upon. Nevertheless, Margaret Trudeau would end up enjoying the distinction of being the only Canadian woman to have been the wife and mother of Prime Ministers, for Justin, who had been a Member of Parliament for Papineau since 2008, became leader of the Liberal Party in 2015 and Prime Minister in 2017.
Meghan ‘was very impressed to be mixing with’ people of that stature. Not only was she becoming a celebrity in her own right, but she was now socialising with a ‘better class of person than in LA’, where her and Trevor’s friends and associates were successful
