Gage d'amour pour toujours

The leads are great - Lauren is especially dazzling. The story is cute and there is real chemistry all around. As usual the crisis is a bit manufactured but if you signed up for the premise then just enjoy the ride.

Other reviewers are too harsh - if you like the genre then you will enjoy this little trip into it.

The story and direction are OK and you don't feel anything intrudes into a basic story.

Kate Sterling (Lauren Lee Smith) runs a small shop selling her own jewelry. She loves selling her individually designed wedding rings for adoring couples. Out of the blue, she's contacted by her first boyfriend Jamie Coleman (Dillon Casey). He's an employment consultant and is in town to recruit her for a hated big jewelry company. He only tells her after she invites him on a date. He reveals that his real passion is cooking.

Lauren Lee Smith is adorable as always. I've always known that she's tall but she seems especially tall in this one. Bigger productions usually can hide it or cast around it. The premise is a bit intriguing for this type of standard TV rom-com. The problem is that the guy has limited charisma and limited chemistry. This is not unusual for this type of movies. They just need to find a better guy. A good man is hard to find.

There are a few original elements in this movie, but these done-to-death food prep/fight scenes are a nightmare for some people with eating issues/disorders.

I record and watch every single rom-com that airs on the Hallmark channels and UpTV. But even with the stinkers out there, I've never felt like I had no other choice than to fast-forwarded to the end--until this offering where I broke down at the hour mark. In the past, I've managed to have the movies going in the background while I do housework. But this was just such a muddled mess! And I love Lauren Lee Smith from 'Frankie Drake Mysteries,' but that's an example of actually GOOD writing. In this film, the dialogue is cringey, the storyline is all over the place, and characters just suddenly emerge in random scenes and you have no idea who they are. There also needed to be scenes with Kate actually working to create her custom pieces. It would have helped to support the notion that she really loves her "little store." And no offense to the actor playing Jamie, but he was not "leading man" material. He had no charisma, and his hair was so distracting (from the really bad cut/style to the oil slick slapped on top). He wasn't that handsome, and he struck me as more of a comedian in looks. I can't give a rating any lower than 1 star, so I gave 1 additional star for Lauren Lee Smith. The other star is for the one realistic element presented, which was the actresses' hair. As opposed to most of the movies where the female characters look like they just came from Hair & Makeup (which the actors did), the women in this movie had hairstyles that looked like how a normal woman would do her hair. (Yes, "Chasing Waterfalls," I'm calling you out on the perfectly styled hair on the lead which was AFTER she'd gotten her hair all wet swimming.)

This really was a snore-fest, despite a premise that is slightly different. To make up for it, the writers and director pull out any number of checklist rom-com tropes including getting flour all over each other and intrusive co-workers and friends.

There is nothing to make the story stand out. Even the climax is weak The leads have no spark. As another reviewer says, Lauren Lee Smith is adequate but fairly plain as a lead. She does present an appealing character but little more. There's nothing wrong with Dillon Casey, but likewise, not great either.

The dialogue is uninspiring. Very mundane. Did someone think some of that was witty banter? Situations that are supposed to be funny aren't.