Hallmark has dusted off one of its standard plots, changed a few of the details and delivered a "new" film. As ever, a former high school couple are reunited years later, when the one who left the bucolic small country town of their youth returns temporarily from the "big city" for family, relaxation or work and rekindle their lost love. Compromises in careers and life styles are made in pursuit of true happiness. But alas, not before facing some obstacles created by either a new love from the city who shows up unexpectedly or in this case, a potential new suitor from the city whose interest is unwanted and of course, misinterpreted. Will they or won't they get back together? Will old love conquer all? The answer is always yes - this is Hallmark after all; movie makers of the greeting card world. The main character Sarah is a wedding planner who is staging a ceremony on the farm owned by her old flame. The event is during the annual crop harvest - which in real life is not something farmers could or would thoroughly disrupt for a "society wedding" on site. Here though the farmer gives in because he can't resist the perky, overbearing and annoying Sarah. As another reviewer mentioned, the backdrop is lovely with its fall colors (although for the life of me I don't understand the confusion over the location that was expressed in that review. Just because the story is set in Massachusetts doesn't mean it was filmed there. Forget a Google Earth fan search! Hallmark ALWAYS attributes its beautiful Canadian filming locations to random US sites, as though audiences won't watch anything that isn't set in good old, 'Merican locales.) All in all, another Hallmark cliché.
Review of A Harvest Wedding
A Harvest Wedding
(2017 TV Movie)
Another Schmaltzy Hallmark Offering
22 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers