An Aesop: You are the only person that can fix your life.Played with, in that it's revealed Helen has her own problems in her life and has been muscling in on things more as an (admittedly rather thoughtless) attempt to over-compensate for her own unhappiness as opposed to downright maliciousness towards Annie.
She is also rich and attractive, and Annie feels threatened by her budding friendship with Lillian.
Always Someone Better: Helen is seemingly this to Annie, constantly attempting to one-up her and is often successful. Helen seems like an adult version of this trope at first, but is sympathized somewhat later on and becomes more of a Lovable Alpha Bitch. To be fair, the girl is perfectly civil until Annie starts insinuating her best friend will dump her, both starting and escalating the argument. 
Annie encounters a snotty tween girl while working as a jeweler and they fall into a cycle of out-insulting each other. As Annie seems to be losing Lillian's friendship to perfect Helen, only truly understanding what each wants may bring all the parties closer together. Officer Rhodes may only be able to take so much before giving up on Annie. As Annie seems to be losing the competition at every turn, another bright light enters her life in the form of police officer Nathan Rhodes, his entry into her life which she resists due in part to the other failures in her life. Immediately, Annie and Helen are in open competition not only to organize Lillian's bridal festivities, but to be Lillian's BFF. At the engagement party, Annie meets the other bridesmaids for the first time: Lillian's marriage cynical cousin Rita, Lillian's idealistic newlywed friend Becca, Doug's brash sister Megan, and Doug's boss' seemingly perfect and wealthy wife Helen. The only bright light in her life is that her BFF Lillian has announced that she's getting married to her boyfriend Doug, and has asked Annie to be her maid of honor. 
And she is in a dysfunctional relationship with misogynistic Ted, who treats her solely as a third string sex partner only whenever it suits his mood.
She is forced to share an apartment with socially inept siblings Gil and Brynn, who don't respect her personal boundaries. By strings pulled by her mother, she now works in a low paying job as a jewelry store clerk, which she hates. Despite her baking acumen, her retail cake store, Cake Baby, failed leaving her finances in rough shape. In Milwaukee, thirty-something Annie Walker's life is falling apart.
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