Christmas can be complicated enough, but when someone is getting hitched for the holidays, you are bound to get into a holly jolly jam like those found in the invigorating Christmas romance, A Holiday “I Do,” directed by Alicia Schneider and Paul Schneider.
Rancher Jane (Lindsay Hicks) is trapped at a Christmas speed dating event, where none of the women seem to get her and her horse tending ways. She is only there because her mother, Mary (Jill Larson), and young daughter, Lexi (Colette Hahn), are hassling her to start dating again. It has been five years since she divorced Lexi’s father, Mark (Joe Piazza), but they remain best friends. Jane is even planning Mark’s bachelor party as she is going to be the Best Woman at his wedding to Heather (India Chappell).

“Heather is not hip to this whole idea that the best friend of her husband-to-be is his ex-wife…”
Heather is not hip to this whole idea that the best friend of her husband-to-be is his ex-wife and is flickering daggers with her eyes. Good thing Jane has her friends in the Givens (Dale Dobson, Mandy Logsdon) and Noelle (Kayden Bryce) at the coffee shop. It is there that Jane literally bumps into Sue (Rivkah Reyes). Jane thinks Sue is hotter than the latte she spilled down her front and wonders who she is.
Meanwhile, Andrea (Marsha Warfield) at the bank is letting Mary know the family ranch is about to be foreclosed on, a horrible fact that Mary is keeping secret from her family. In town, as a hungover, Jane drops off her ex-husband from the bachelor party she threw for him at his cake tasting. There, she meets Heather and Mark’s wedding planner, Sue, which makes Jane’s bloodshot eyes almost pop out of her head…
The screenplay for A Holiday “I Do” by Melinda Bryce, based on a story by Bryce and the Schneiders, is a rowdy rule breaker. It takes a highly unorthodox path for a Christmas rom-com which hardcore yuletiders will immediately notice, which is the two leads don’t immediately butt heads with each other. In the vast majority of these pictures, the two main characters are direct opposites who hate each other. This sets up the puzzle as to how they will end up together against all odds. Problem is, they always end up together, so the writer’s machinations over how it gets pulled off may be clever, but it is a foregone conclusion.