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The story involves two Advertising Executives, Anna and Sebastian, who have totally opposite personalities, but are teamed up and sent to Paris to try to land an important French client. Mistakenly, they are presumed to be a married couple, and they go along with the charade in the hopes it will help them land the account. However, their secret is exposed which results in catastrophic consequences.

Yet another tired Hallmark formula trotted out for your viewing "pleasure" the old opposites attract, pretending to be married routine we've seen many times-HOHUM! Also, the pace is a bit slow moving. And you can guess the very predictable conflict and ending at that! Now the leads, Nicholas Bishop as Sebastián and Alexa PenaVega do have a good chemistry and the backdrop and scenery may help distract you from the too familiar. But overall, just a so so formulaic movie.

This story is about Abbey, a hard working nononsense Acquisition Analyst for Everson Valley Farms. After being stood up on a date she is discouraged about love and life and her Aunt encourages her to open herself up and really express her feelings and thoughts in a heartfelt letter, place the letter in a bottle, and throw it into the ocean. Months later, the letter is found by Nick who is fishing in Maine. He decides to reach out contact the letter writer. Nick just happens to be the son of the CEO of Everson Farms where Abbey works. Nick's father calls him to come back to Boston to work on a temporary business project for the family owned company. Nick reluctantly agrees since he will be in town anyway to attend his sister's wedding. In yet another coincidence, he is paired with Abbey on the work project. Although Abbey and Nick don't get along very well workwise, they become good online friends who open their hearts, yet keep their true identities secret. The story is the journey the two characters go on learning to take a chance on love and opening themselves up to new possibilities in life.

I am puzzled by all the glowing reviews raving about how new and different this is for a Hallmark movie, "one if their best movies ever", when in fact its a combination of Message In A Bottle, You Got Mail, and Shop Around The Corner! In addition, its similar to many other Hallmark movies with co-workers with two opposite personalities who clash, but eventually fall in love! There's also the usual Hallmark formula in place with the anticipated "conflict". And yes Andrew Walker does excellent acting job in portraying Nick, and Bethany Joy Lenz is good in her role as the serious, somewhat cold, and discouraged about love Abby; the two do have good chemistry together. Although the familiar storyline might take a few unique twists in the journey, it still amounts to the same predictable outcome and rushed ending. I also found the pace of the movie to be inconsistent. Sorry, but I found it too similar to many other Hallmark movies nothing earthshattering nor does it break any new ground. It's an okay well acted movie but nothing special.

Victoria (Mallory Jansen), is an Event Planner, she is also the Maid Of Honor and handling all the details of her best friend's wedding in Paris. Her ex-boyfriend. Cameron, (Lachlan Nieboer) is the groom's Best Man and she learns he's bringing a date to the wedding. She decides to reconnect with her childhood pen pal and former boyfriend, Jacque, (Joshua Sasse) who lives in Paris. There are subplots regarding the indecisive bride and also a pregnant friend and her overprotective husband. Each couple has important questions about life and love.

Mallory Jansen is Hallmark's best female actor, and as always, she is superb in the role of Victoria. Joshua Sasse as Jacque is HOT, HOT, HOT and is perfect as the suave and romantic Frenchman. Lachlan Nieboer does a decent job as the jealous and obnoxious ex-boyfriend. The plot and beautiful scenery and chateau keeps you engaged. My only complaint is wishing it had just slightly less whinning on the part of the indecisive bride and pregnant friend. Gregory Haney's performance as the groom was a bit stiff. Overall a delight and one of Hallmark's better movies, and I am usually not very fond of wedding themed movies.