Planning the rich bachelor Nicholas Karmichael’s Christmasquerade Ball (points for the title), Candace scores an invite, forcing Angie to plan her dress, her mask, and the custom stocking needed for the Stocking Tree. When Candace’s diamond facial goes awry, Angie decides to go in her place with a little helpful nudging from a fairy godmother…err…dressmaker.Īt the Christmasquerade Ball (have to mention it again-great title!), Angie picks a stocking from the Stocking Tree, whose owner also picks hers. But when Angie realizes that picking each other’s stockings means they need to claim a grand prize and reveal their Mistaken Identities, she flees. It’s the next day when her mystery man creates a viral video asking for the owner of the stocking, and it’s Nicholas, the egotistical man who dismissed her when they met during event planning. It’s a unique play on Love Becomes Hate Becomes Love. There are so many details to the plot that it is hard to summarize. Short version: Candace blackmails Angie into helping her trick Nicholas into thinking she was the one at the ball, and once they’re married, the event planning business is all Angie’s. Since Angie doesn’t care for Nicholas without his mask, she agrees, Cyrano De Bergerac earpiece in place. Keeping track of the plot twists distracts you from the lack of Christmas (sans the stocking plotline) and the odd lighting that will highlight any female’s cheekbones. The story is more about how dense Nicholas is for not recognizing Angie even after he notices how little Candace knows about cooking or Oscar Wilde quotes (a critical plot point).
But it is these details that elevates the Disney-fied plot to something more than a throwaway flick. There are some confusing scenes near the end where Nicholas comes for a pound of Candace’s flesh and an awkward balcony “Do you love me?” “Well, do you love me?” exchange between he and Angie.
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