To Have and to Holiday

With her temporary position in an entry-level job at New-York-based Gallivali design house ending before she worked up the nerve to show Marina Gallivali her portfolio, and having no other design-oriented job lined up in New York, Celeste Palmer heads home to small-town Everly, not only for Christmas, but seemingly permanently. Wanting to spend more time with her, Jason Arlington, her boyfriend of 3 months, impulsively decides to accompany her to Everly to spend Christmas with her and her parents, Mark and Judith Palmer, respectively Everly's pastor and mayor. When Celeste and Jason learn from Mark that the church needs to undergo necessary remodeling in the new year, Jason just as impulsively proposes to Celeste, a Christmas Eve wedding in her father's church 3 weeks hence. Celeste, who has always wanted to be married by her father in their church, accepts on the spot. Judith is surprised but delighted; Mark is less so; they have not known each other long enough. Deep down, Mark wants Celeste home for good, possibly to marry her old boyfriend, his assistant Dean, and still sees her as his indecisive little girl. He doesn't let them forgo any of his protocols for marrying in his church and insists that they must graduate from his marriage boot-camp. Mark unwittingly (or perhaps willingly), stacks the odds against them, which could affect not only his relationship with Celeste, but with everyone in town.