gehewe It is magical and fun. Love this movie from start to finish. Absolutely love the Alicia Witt character. The movie focuses on how Alice and Matt are meant to be together. So many memorable lines and scenes. Matt tells of his ex girlfriend "she wasn't even willing to get wet for me". The exact time his grandpa saw his grandmother for the first time. The Christmas game they play around the tree. So much niceness. This is the movie that hooked me on contemporary Christmas movies. I crown Alicia Witt as the queen and this was her first and best. Love Susan Hogan as the mom and Lawrence Dane as the grandpa.Very surprised of the 17 reviews already posted only 4 were excellent. Stand up for "Happily Ever After" and give this one an excellent review.

Dark_Lord_Mark I have never looked at Hallmark movies, till 2016. I brushed them off but after watching 15 of them, YES 15 in a week, I must say, most are quite good and well acted and well written.This movie is no exception. Some familiar characters with familiar plots but it is somewhat refreshing characters. Yes you have a lead ready to be married only to meet another man, but the story is about Christmas, love and fate and does it all exist and intertwine? The movie is about accidental meetings, disaster, and accidental misunderstandings couple with good family and a lesson on life and love and how we maybe should love the simple things.Go watch this movie, 9.5 out of 10.

Brandon Maynard I found this to be the best Christmas movie of 2013 and I enjoy almost all of Hallmark's Christmas films. Alicia Witt going to the wrong family's home on a mistake was actually a stroke of fate.Grandpa was a fantastic character, especially in his scenes with Alice(Alicia Witt). Matt's parents were great as well, and her fiancé's family was stiff and horrible.Naturally, the happy ending saw Alice dump Will and end up with Matt, which is how it should be. Remember, folks, you shouldn't watch a Christmas movie for anything other than pure enjoyment and this film had it in spades.And oh, by the way, I DID NOT find the music distracting. In fact, I enjoyed it very much.

adoptshelterpetstoday This is another Hallmark Christmas movie that I did not find appealing the first time I saw it. It started off interesting...and was good up until a certain point. But eventually, "Alice" increasingly behaved too immature for a grown woman, especially one that was about to be married...and to a high-power, wealthy exec at that....Wearing her little light blue hoodie and her "little girl" hairstyle...and the way she consumed her milk and cookies...made her look like a 14 year old, with the eating habits of a 4 year old. Then "Matt" attempted to wipe off her little mouth........."Matt" was continuously over-bearing...always explaining the "Mitchum's" traditions as soon as they entered the house about mom's decor...to grandpa this and that ("Right, grandpa?"..."Right, grandpa?")...to grandma "was a real fox." (<--very odd!) The entire family was over-bearing........Be that as it may, repeats made it seem better than a lot of other Hallmark's Christmas movies. It's more tolerable.