The Hallmark Christmas Wedding!

I’ve decided to turn my hand to writing a script for a Hallmark movie. 

So, what do you think of this?

The heroine of our story is living in the big city and has suffered one personal tragedy too many, so she abandons her very successful career in business, swaps the executive suits for big jumpers and wellies, and heads north to the land of her birth. 

Being the heroine of our story, she’s not prepared to sit down and put her heels up. She spies a small shop unit on the high street on a small town very close to the back of beyond. She decides to open a book shop. 

Meanwhile, in front of a roaring fire with a faithful hound and a podgy cat, sits the hero of our story. He in an crime author writing multi-award winning fiction. He has had his own degree of heartache and takes refuge in the company of his dog, his cat and a friend called Jack Daniels.

Our heroine works hard and gets the bookshop open, employs some staff, one of whom is really good at making cupcakes.

The fairy god mother goes into the bookshop and the heroine is panicking. She’s been asked to supply the books for a big book festival. How will she manage all the boxes in her wee car?

The fairy god mother says 'Do not worry, I have a friend with muscular arms who shall lift all the boxes of books for you.'

 And so the hero and the heroine come together for the first time.

He lifts boxes. She tells him where to put them.

She so touched by his generosity and his refusal to take payment ( I'm doubting he's Scottish now), she offers him her premises for a book launch.

However, as this is a Hallmark movie things do not run smoothly. 

Our heroine hosts an event at the bookstore with special cupcakes, the star of the book event is our hero. Unfortunately our heroine’s plans are dashed by a lady with bouncy hair and a glint in her eye. And the hero is a bit dense. Maybe he is Scottish.

Once again our heroine retreats to the back of the till, with cupcakes and a Mills and Boon or, a good crime novel, depending on her mood. 

But true love always finds a way and once again our hero, now untangled is called to help out at the bookshop to lift heavy boxes. He is very happy to do so. 

Our heroine offers to take him out for a meal to say thankyou. 

The hero, a daft sod at the best of times, doesn’t realise that he’s been asked out on a date and says 'It's okay, it's fine. Happy to do it.'

Then, at some incident, as yet unscripted, a huge penny drops, and our hero and heroine get together. It might have involved Jack Daniels and a cupcake.

The author and the book shop owner, the cat, the dog, the Jack Daniels all live happily ever after.

I don’t write romantic fiction, you’ve probably noticed.

The above is NOT fiction. ( Well, loosely based on fact... the cat is quite thin really)The lovely Sarah and the handsome Douglas got married on the 28^th December 2024.

The wedding was very Hallmark.

The minister said that this was the first wedding he's done in a bookshop, "so that’s novel". The bride looked beautiful, Douglas’s jokes hadn’t improved, it was a dark and stormy night. 

Well behaved little children in kilts were employed to deliver Prosecco like the Bow Street Runners during Prohibition. 

They were married in front of family and friends, the cake was surrounded by cupcakes each with a hand painted cover of their favourite 20 books. 

And if that’s not impressive enough, the person who did the cakes, Sarah’s daughter, had a baby 9 weeks ago. The  baby stayed in its papoose and didn’t make a sound.

I know many of you bloggers know Douglas and I’m sure we all wish them all the health and happiness. 

Exit movie, end credits with Sarah and Douglas sitting on a Bridge in the Highlands with the snow falling and Mickey the dog looking his handsome best.

PS  the fairy god mother was crime writer Gordon Brown, yes, all six feet four of him!

Cheers to 2025