Happily NEVER After: A Bride for Christmas, Ep. 5

Welcome to our Hallmark Holiday podcast where a friend and I watch one of these ridiculous movies, get together and proceed to dismantle them trope by trope and stereotype upon stereotype...until there is nothing left. Oh, while we drink. A Bride for Christmas stars two Hallmark circuit regulars – Arielle Kebbel and Andrew Walker – yes, we know you don’t know who they are. Now, if you think love has been fast-tracked in previous episodes, this one takes two commitment-phobes on a bullet train clear past the altar and into a fully fledged MARRIAGE in less than ninety minutes. Jessie and Aiden meet under the pretense of a testosterone-induced bet, get railroaded into spending an inordinate amount of time together, weather a stalker ex-fiancé and unexpectedly (well, not to us) fall in love. Could they have just dated seriously? Sure! Could it have simply ended in an engagement? Of course! But these two wanted to go “all in”.