Jack Huston guesses that Lucy Hargrove, portrayed by Bethany Joy Lenz, is a singer. In reality, Lenz is one half of the music duo Everly.
Hallmark movie regulars Rachel Boston and Wes Brown have small but pivotal roles as the modern-day actors portraying "Rebecca" and "Charlie" respectively in the remake of the film-within-a-film "His Merry Wife!" filmed at Biltmore Estate at the end of the movie. She makes an in-joke reference to their previous movie Ensemble à Noël (2019), the inference being that they are portraying themselves.
The soundtrack features the original version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane for Le chant du Missouri (1944) and performed on screen by the movie's star, Judy Garland.
Lucy calls herself Sandra Bullock near the beginning of this movie. This movie's main characters' names Jack and Lucy are the same as in Bullock's Christmas movie L'amour à tout prix (1995).
While in the past, the images take on a golden hue.