Marié avant Noël

This romantic holiday flick stars Arielle Kebbel (Midnight Texas) and Andrew W. Walker (numerous Christmas films) as the love interests Jessie and Aiden.

Jessie has been engaged three times and just about given up on love and all that it entails. Aiden is the static bachelor whose friends make a bet with him that he can't be engaged by Christmas only four weeks away.

Lead character meet and banter, eventually get to know one another and fall in love. Then Jessie learns of the bet.. Will it be happily ever after or a lonely new year's eve & Christmas for the duo?

Cute movie, worth a watch!

Why does Hallmark make 30 new Christmas movies a year? It is because Great Movies like this led the way. The movie has a great cast (Arielle Kebbel and Andrew Walker in the leads), it is very funny, and it has it's touching moments. Kimberly Sustad played a great supporting role as the sister (she starred in Nine Lives of Christmas) and Peter Benson made for some of the funniest moments (he plays the detective in Aurora Teagarten). I recognized the dad (Eric Keenleyside) from roles in many of the Hallmark movies. The cast looked like a current day Hallmark movie with everyone 6 years younger. Sage Brocklebrand was also in the movie (he played McNabb in Psych).

That was a bet I wouldn't regret either. I've seen Mr. and Mrs. Charming (Andrew Walker & Arielle Kebber) in other Hallmark movies and they make a cute couple in this one. I would watch this one again. Mainly because I missed what happened during the poker game. This is a solid 7 star movie IMHO!

IMHO, the bet was a joke gone awry.

Given Aiden's (Andrew Walker) track record and Matt's (Peter Benson) sense of humor, Aiden proposing to anyone in a month was a strictly ludicrous idea....till oneupmanship kicked in.

Stars Arielle Kibbel and Andrew Walker, a better script and a strong supporting cast make all the difference here.

Yes, the premise is How to Lose a Runaway Bride. But eventually we get a payoff on both counts: mitigating factors on Jessie's broken engagements and a hilarious scene illustrating how competition X gambling runs amok.

Kudos to Kibbel and Walker for making Jessie and Aiden conflicted, and deeper than the shrill mess and elevated jerk lesser actors would have delivered.

Their all-important chemistry was excellent and believable, start to finish.

On a lesser note, I've wondered if Hallmark's preference for female leads with dated, unflattering hair was about making them look only so good, as opposed to poor styling. Here, Kibbel's look was consistently on the wrong side of the tousled versus messy divide.

My goodness. As I am writing, this movie has a 5.8 rating. How anybody could choose to watch a movie called A Bride For Christmas and come away disappointed with this movie is completely lost on me. I mean, what were they expecting? Were they perhaps caught off guard when there was a wedding/Christmas theme? I was expecting a bride, and Arielle Kebbel was a really, really good one. She so reminds me of watching Katherine Heigl in little movies like this one she used to make not too many years ago. She is adorable here, which is what I was expecting in a movie where "Bride" is prominent in the title. I was expecting a wedding and I was expecting Christmas. Past that I was hoping for a well written script. This one is sweet, thoughtful and pretty clever considering it sticks to familiar story lines. What it comes down to is whether you want to watch a well made movie about A Bride For Christmas or you want to watch something else. When I sat down for this movie, I was expecting they'd show me a sweet movie about a cute bride at Christmas. Given those parameters, this Christmas movie highly exceeded my expectations.