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The movie kicks off with a slowmo shot of a big ol horse pulling a sleigh. We go into a house and these 2 best friend are talking about where people are going to be sitting at her wedding. That's right - Kathy and police officer Matt are finally getting married! But Kathy's friend, Danielle, is feeling a bit sad. Last Christmas, she was broken up with on Christmas Eve at Church service in between Silent Night and Joy to the World. But she's here and she's gonna make the best of it helping Kathy plan the wedding. In the middle of the their conversation, we see a guy walking his Dalmatian.

Danielle decides to go to the coffee shop and orders her fav: a tall caramel machinate sugar free with oat milk, no whip, and has a totally normal, real human conversation with the owner.

She goes to enjoy her drink in the park in the freezing cold. She sets her drink down to take a call from her mom and she notices that a dog is drinking her drink. The man apologizes but she doesn't want any part of it.

But when she's goes to the coffee shop the next day and orders her sugar free caramel macchiato with oat milk, no whip, he comes right up. Turns out, he's the guy she's supposed to be meeting with. His name is Trevor but goes by TJ and he is Matt's best friend.

They start working together to plan stuff, like cake taste testing, floral arrangements, stuff that the wedding party is in charge of.

She invites him over to meet her old school Dad and Dad falls in love with him. And he takes her to the fire department to show her all of the fire stuff. But then he gets a call so has to leave.

Turns out, the call is for her mom. She "fell down" while doing the dishes. I guess she was dehydrated.

She talks to her mom about how she's not sure about really giving Trevor a chance but mom is like your dad likes him, we can't let this opportunity pass.

Everything is good again until she gets a call - the baker who was making cupcakes for the wedding is in labor. So she and Trevor go to the bakery to make 200 cupcakes. And they have a blast until a girl shows up and says she's Trevor's girlfriend. Trevor doesn't correct her.

She's real sad. Luckily, there's a random old guy on a bench who gives her some advice.

Trevor shows up and explains - he actually never did break up with this girl but he thought they broke up cuz she moved. Which is good enough for her. They go to walk in the freezing cold and kiss.

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Aubrey's plane is grounded due to a snowstorm leaving her stranded for the night at a small town airport. Aubrey stumbles into the middle of a kidnapping and throws herself into danger as she tries to save the young girl stranded with them

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The episode starts with cruisers talking about who they are most existed to see - Tyler Hynes, Taylor Cole, Jonathan Bennett, everyone! With little clips of what’s to come this season. Lots of hugging. Lots of crying.

We meet Paige, Alexandrea and their mom Kerry. The Vermeer family. Mom cries when talking about how excited she is to go on this cruise. Alexandra is the daughter in law but she feels like they’re the family she’s always wanted and both Alexandrea and Paige talk about how much momma Kerry has done for them.

They show up at the cruise and are wearing matching Vermeer Girls sweatshirt. They’re blown away by all the decorations. The room though? Tiny. It’s a twin bed with a single bed over top. And they immediately get to work on decorating their door. That’s a big deal for cruisers.

We then meet Rob & Donna - they’ve been together for 9 years. Rob is freakin jacked. He broke both of her ribs after trying to pop her back at the gym. And that’s true love. They have a bunch of hallmark actor ornaments in their tree. She loves Paul Campbell and he loves Nikki DeLoach.

They get on board and immediately bump into Jonathan Bennet and he’s just wheeling and dealing like Jonathan Bennet is one to do.,

We then meet Carol, Cathy, and Nate who is celebrating his 16th birthday on the cruise and he is pumped. Nate is there with his two grandmas. And he’s a bit of a celeb because he posted on the cruise Facebook group that it’s his birthday.

We then meet Lori and her sister. They live in separate states so they’re so excited to go on this cruise. Lori is a fellow Christmas crazy and is excited to decorate their room.

The Veneer family are back and momma Kerry talks about how she’s happily married and she knows Wes Brown is happily married, but she has been given a hall pass in case Wes is interested. She calls it her hallmark pass.

My guy Rob is gonna propose to Donna and is hoping they can get married on the cruise!

Night 1 comes and it’s time for the Christmas tree lighting on top of the ship.

We then meet Alice and Gail. Best friends since 10th grade, 46 years ago. And they are our black friends. They’re excited to meet Tyler Hynes. And Alicia is gonna try to get Gail to get out of her comfort zone.

So everyone’s up on top of the ship. JB comes out and does his thing. Tyler Hynes comes on stage in a bath robe. It’s a whole thing. Paige is very into him and she thinks they would hit it off really well. She yells at him to take it off. While momma Kerry is just going nuts over Wes Brown.

We find out Paige has some news she has to tell her mom - she’s moving out of Texas. But she’s nervous .

Victoria tells her sister Lora she’s pregnant right after Lora gets them both champagne.

Rob and Donna get a picture with Erin Cahill and of course she’s just the sweetest. They talk to her for a bit. We find out that Donna had to have brain surgery last holiday season. So they’re both really excited to be there. And he’s trying to find the right time to propose to her. But not while Erin Cahill is there.

It’s time for Carol-oke. Gail and Alicia show up. Alicia signs them up. Gail is pissed. She does not get to that stage and Alicia shames her from the stage. We get Gail in a confessional having to psychoanalyze why she doesn’t wanna get out of her comfort zone.

The sisters show up for trivia, hosted by Nikki DeLoach and Andrew Walker. And Andrew is just hugging everyone. And these sisters suck at trivia.

And then there’s the boot shot with Tyler Hynes. It’s madness. Paige is pumped. But then Wes Brown walks in and Kerry is pumped. They hug. And Paige says “I’ve been told to call you step-dad”. And then Kerry says it …. You’re my hallmark pass. Wes is just so chill. JB is also there and Paige is like can you give Tyler Hynes my number? And he’s like I can do that. And I’m weirdly invested in this.

Nate has lost his grandmas. So he’s going around and asking “has anyone seen some grandmas?”. Turns out they’re hiding becuase they’re annoyed by Nate. Turns out his birthday isn’t even today, it’s December 10th. Fricken liar.

So Rob goes into the gym and Paul Campbell is there. They have matching black tanks. So he tells him that he’s gonna propose and wants to get married on the ship. Paul is like hey I can officiate your wedding here. He pulls Andrew walker in. Rob is like oh boy. Now I really need to ask her.

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Riley is looking for a job and despite having plenty of experience, she keeps getting turned down. And she's down to only $89 in her bank account. She overhears a women talking about William Young - a hot shot executive - is in need of a new assistant. So she's gonna march down there and get a job! While waiting for her interview, she fixes the lobby tree topper and makes a wish, which impresses the women who is doing the interviewing. She gets the job, mainly because they think that she's a different Riley V with a more impressive resume. She is immediately pulled into the board room where she immediately butts into the conversation about closing down a factory and is like don't do that which impresses William Young.

William decides he's gonna go check out the factory and decide for himself what to do. But William likes to drive, so Riley flies out early to get a lay of the land. She finds out that the town is going to go all out to help make William feel at home and hopefully save the factory. But it gets off to a rocky start when he gets pulled over and doesn't have his license, so he's brought to jail until he can prove his identity. She goes to take him to the inn and he's mad that she decorated it for Christmas. He's like I've fired people for less than this. But she stays on.

They go to check out the factory and it's struggling. They're gonna need to figure out something to save it and Riley actually comes up with an idea - pivot away from Jeffery the Bear and make him a wishing bear. It could be just the thing to save the factory. And William seems into it. But she over hears him on the phone talking about how it's basically a sure thing they're gonna shut down the factory.

Santa gives Riley a pep talk. And then gives William a pep talk. It's possible this Santa is magic. They end up going ice skating together and getting to know each other more and the sparks are flying. What could go wrong? There's this journalist who is trying to take him down and is spying on them and snapping pictures.

But nothing can get them down. They're having a great time, the bears are selling, and he's starting to feel at home here.

But then, the sales suddenly hit a brick wall. So they go down to the factory and the reporter is there and she outs Riley and William is real upset. So she goes home and he has a conversation with the mayor who helps him see the big picture here. So he goes to her house and they make up. He tells her that "someone" bought all the factory's inventory and will keep the factory open to the new year and go from there. And then he tells Riley he wants to help fund her to open her own consulting company. They kiss.

This week we're reliving the best DTH moments from 'Christmas Mailbag 2024: Volume 1' (January 2, 2025) through 'Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker' (May 23, 2025)

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Katie is a food teacher who spends her summer getting ready for next year. Her brother Dan invites her to join him to go to Peru with him. So off they go! No kidding around here! We got places to see!

They meet up with his girlfriend who is already down there. So Katie goes off on her own and bumps into a hunk and a parade so they don’t actually get to talk to each other.

When she meets back up with her brother, he’s there! His name is Carlos and I guess he knows Dan’s girlfriend. He tells them he’s got them back stage passes to Machu Picchu. And Dan tells Katie’s he’s planning on proposing. It’ll be a Machu Picchu Proposal! He’s about to propose but another couple beats him to the punch. So he decides to wait to propose until after he meets her family the next day. At the family gathering, Katie & Carlos dance together and it is steamy steamy.

The next day, he’s off to another town to try some food. So I guess they’ll never see each other again. Obviously I’m kidding. She goes with him and this leads to a bit of acuisine quest.

But the quest gets off to a rocky start when Dan has an allergic reaction to wool & some weird milk.

Dan is still committed to trying of find a beautiful place to propose but now they’re on a food quest, so Katie looks for a place that has foods but also has an amazing scenery for a proposal.

She comes across this chocolate making place that is also stunning, so they go there but they accidentally drop the engagement ring into the chocolate. So they end up having to take all the chocolate with them to try to find it.

Everyone starts to notice that Katie and Carlos have crazy chemistry and they end up watching a movie by the pool, talking about love, and clearly just wanting to kiss each other. But she gets a text and you know the rules about kissing after getting a text.

The get to the next romantic spot and Dan and his girlfriend go off to see some beautiful scenery and probably get engaged. Katie tells Carlos there's some magical energy between them and they're about to kiss when they hear a scream. They find out Dan and his girlfriend and she's hurt her ankle. Dan and Katie get in a big argument and Carlos gets pulled into it. Its a whole thing.

Katie feels bad that she pushed Dan so hard to make this proposal perfect. So she tries to make it up to him by planning a proposal on his behalf without his permission.

She finds Carlos and the make up and they kissssss. She tells him that they have to go to Machu Picchu to help with the proposal!

Since Dan can't go there cuz of the ankle, she live streams Machu Picchu to them so it's like they're there. He proposes and she says yes.