The film employed approximately 300 local extras and is estimated to have had a $375,000 economic impact on the town of Dahlonega.
Although set in Iowa, the film was actually shot in Georgia.
The film mirrors real life in certain ways as it is a Christmas movie shot in a small town famous for its Christmas celebrations about a film crew who goes to shoot a Christmas movie in a small town famous for its Christmas celebrations. However while the fictional film crew takes advantage of the fictional town's celebrations, the real film finished shooting over a month prior to the real town's Christmas celebrations.
Aired as the eighth of nineteen original films in The Hallmark Channel's 2016 "Countdown to Christmas" lineup.
A little under a year after the film premiered, on October 24th 2017, it received a novelization by Kara Tate, released as the second e-book from the recently launched Hallmark Publishing.