Winter Castle

This is a made of honor and best man set up at a destination wedding in the absolutely gorgeous setting of the ice hotel (it looks like the one in Quebec).

This film is worth seeing for the ice hotel alone, the rooms are themed and there are characters carved into the walls that change every year...it is so cool.

The other reason to see this is for Emilie Ullerup, she is fantastic and her usual effervescent self. She really breathes life into this film playing Jenny the maid of honor at her sister Meg's wedding. Meg was hoping to set her sister up with the best man, Craig, but he brings a plus one...Lana who was a friend of his deceased wife and helped him since her death with his delightful daughter Sara. Sara and Jenny immediately hit it off because Henny is so full of fun and wants to write kids stories...how perfect is that. Full of adventure and a beautiful snowy backdrop...this is a sweet slow burn.

Always love Kevin McGarry. The daughter was precious. Great singing by supporting actress. Emily was a very perky person!

Absolutely breathtaking location! Emilie and Kevin are good together. It's a shame that more information about Lana's relationship to Kevin wasn't given.

Kevin McGarry was quite dreamy playing a loving Dad with a good heart. It's nice to see him in this role after some of the other characters I have seen him play.

You can't generally go wrong with Emilie Ullerup either, she is a veteran at this 'Made For TV Christmas Film' malarkey now.

The film takes place in an ice hotel, which in itself is an insane concept, but I really like it as a different setting for a change. They still get in the fun things that are to be expected in a seasonal story like this and the romance was nice and gentle.

The "Other" woman was a bit OTT, but they do that a lot, even Natasha in "Bridget Jones Diary" is a bit like it, maybe I've just never noticed a woman marking her territory so vigorously before in real life and they're doing it perfectly, but I don't know?

The bonds that form between the various characters is cute and the story, while still formulaic, is nice enough.

It probably gets extra points for Mr McGarry's handsome face, but I don't care about that.

7ish?/10.

It was nice to see a very different and beautiful setting but storyline was just so so. I sometimes have problems in some Hallmark movies were attention details get siderailed. For instance Lana buys a champagne dress for Sarah to wear to the rehearsal dinner and Sarah walks in with a red dress. Then Lana walks up the stairs to the dinner, sees something upsetting and walks back out but the shot of the dinner table doesn't even have a place setting for her in the first place. The father says to the wait staff "we're just waiting for one more" and the one more he refers to is his daughter and not Lana. Nobody wonders where Lana is. Guess no one is supposed to focus in on the details anyway but just the characters.