Winter Castle (2019)

Jenny is thrilled when her sister Meg, decides to have a destination wedding at an ice hotel. Her sister is just as excited to set Jenny up with the best man, Craig, a widowed (and apparently) single dad who she claims is "perfect" for Jenny. When Jenny arrives at the ice hotel it's even more magical than she had imagined. Jenny's hopes of romance are quickly dashed when she is introduced to Craig's "plus one", Lana who arrives in faux furs and slightly orange from too much self-tanner. Between their mutual excitement over their surroundings and their duties as bridesmaid and best man, Jenny and Craig find themselves constantly thrown together - making it hard for Jenny to ignore their obvious connection as they try everything offered from ice sculpting to dog sledding and even snow tubing. With the wedding just a day away, the cold Lana has been fending off all week takes hold and she returns to California. Before she leaves, Craig has an honest moment with her and admits he doesn't ...Written by Johnson Production Group


EMILIE ULLERUP and KEVIN MCGARRY look good together, yes, but this is not what makes this movie special.  I know a lot people hate it when a single lady falls for a single dad with a daughter who wishes her to be the second mom, but I like it.  I like it when the child gets along with a prospective future stepmom.  Stories here in this country, more often than not, either make the stepmom like bad witches, or the stepchildren be like brats.  I know that's not always the case because in both sides of my family, like I mentioned before, we have complicated family trees.  We have remarriages, et cetera, et cetera, and the relationships are quite symbiotic...yes, it could happen.

In this story, there's another woman.  A woman who entered into the life of the single dad(McGarry), even before the mother died.  She's not at all bad.  She actually genuinely loves the little girl, and she was kind of hoping to take her friendship with the father to the next level, and...

Well, I kind of saw myself in her...I saw myself in Jenny(Ullerup) too.

This is some kind of a spoiler:  When you don't end up with the man of your dreams, be grateful, because there's someone out there who thinks the world of you, and you would thank your lucky stars that you didn't end up with him, and instead you became the answer to someone else's prayers.

It was kind of whirlwind, but no one's asked anyone to get married yet(but there's a wedding in this story).

Oh, another thing, besides loving the Bride's family and wondering where the Groom's family is, this movie made so interested in it because even if it is fictionalised, the movie was shot in a real place: The Ice Hotel, Quebec City, Canada.  It's so glorious there.

If I could get to travel again to other countries one day, I would surely want to go there.  

Hmmm...

I guess that's it.

Thanks, Hallmark, for showing this last weekend, and thank you dear reader, for your time.

:-)

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