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Christmas Con has spread holiday cheer to both the West Coast and the East Coast for the past few years, but in 2023… there’s no place like Christmas in the Midwest! That’s 4 Entertainment has announced that they will bring their beloved holiday convention filled with festive vendors, audience-engaging seasonal games and the opportunity to see your favorite Christmas movie stars up close when Christmas Con comes to Kansas in June—hosted by Jonathan Bennett!

The event will run from June 9-11 at Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park—just minutes from the heart of Kansas City! Tickets are currently on sale at Thats4Entertainment.com.

Check out the full list of celebrity guests who are currently scheduled to attend the Kansas event!*

(L-R): Paevey and D’Orsay; Walker, Hynes and Campbell (Photos: Hallmark Media; RomaDrama)

To all of our festive friends in Chicago, get your Christmas sweaters ready because RomaDrama Christmas 2022 is coming in December! The convention announced their holiday event for the weekend of December 2-3 where you can mix and mingle (and jingle all the way) with some of your favorite rom-com stars.

As a special holiday gift to all attendees from the Hallmark Channel, there will be viewings of two new Countdown to Christmas movies, “Three Wise Men and a Baby” featuring Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, and Andrew Walker, and “A Fabled Holiday” starring Ryan Paevey and Brooke D’Orsay. There will be post screening Q&As with the casts, a live panel, and lots more!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE (10/02/20): That’s 4 Entertainment announced today that they have officially postponed the Christmas Con New Jersey event to next year due to the pandemic. The new dates are December 10th-12th of 2021. Refunds are available if you can not make the event next year, but if you can, hold onto your tickets as they will be valid for the new dates!

FYI: The California event has also been postponed.

Christmas Con is coming back to New Jersey! Last year That’s 4 Entertainment held the the first-ever Christmas convention that featured holiday fun along with many of your favorite stars from Christmas movies and other popular creatives in the festive field. The LollyChristmas.com team was able to attend, and we had a merry blast!

Many thought with the announcement of Christmas Con: California that the event would be moving location entirely, but due to the success, Christmas Con will be returning to the Garden State this December with several returning stars plus additional fan-favorites for a weekend filled with cheer.

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Brooke D’Orsay returns to Hallmark again this holiday season with her film, “Nostalgic Christmas” for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. D’Orsay plays Anne in this tale, opposite Trevor Donovan, about two strangers who are brought together with the help of a little Christmas magic.

In early promos for the movie, we see D’Orsay in character and glam in a pretty red wrap dress; she’s wearing the BCBGeneration Cocktail Twist Surplice Knit Dress.

This is the perfect slinky number for your next Christmas party!

(left) Brooke D’Orsay, (right) Trevor Donovan | Photos: Crown Media

According to an exclusive report from IBTimes.com, Brooke D’Orsay and Trevor Donovan are returning to Hallmark this Christmas with a new movie, “The House of Wooden Santas” (w/t) — based off of the 1997 novel by Kevin Major, set to premiere during the Countdown to Christmas lineup.

— Updated 07/26/2019: This movie has officially been named “Nostalgic Christmas”! —

Synopsis: “This Christmas, the miracles of the season take the form of sentimental, handcrafted wooden Santas in a small town toy store in North Bay, Maine. Anne Garrison (D’Orsay) seemed to have it all as a driven toy buyer in New York City, but her father’s retirement signaling the closing of the town’s beloved toy store brings the city girl back to her small town roots and perhaps her lost Christmas spirit in the process. While back in town she meets handsome widower, doting father and local mill manager, Keith McClain (Donovan).

Through an unexpected turn of events Anne and Keith find themselves planning the town’s annual Christmas festivities together. How did that even happen? The way it happened doesn’t really make a difference when sparks begin to fly between them. And as Anne’s heart begins to open to Keith and the small town sentimentality that she left behind, Anne has some tough decisions to make.  Once the holidays are over, will she head back to her life in New York, or will she stay in North Bay and take a chance on a new life with a new love?”

Photos: Crown Media

Brooke D’Orsay is back for another Christmas movie with Hallmark, and I’m pretty excited to see it as I loved her in “Miss Christmas”. This time around she stars as Ellie, an aspiring crafter working in her small town’s bakery, in “Christmas in Love”.

In one of the scenes from the movie, we see Ellie wearing an adorable–and very festive–short red double-breasted winter coat and, because you know I love a red coat, I wanted to find out the designer to share with you all.

Photo/Screencaps: Crown Media

Last night, Hallmark Channel aired a sneak peek of the movies making their way to our television screens this holiday season with the “Christmas: A First Look” preview special hosted by Lacey Chabert alongside Hallmark Channel pet ambassador, Happy the Dog.

On the special, Lacey–clad in a fabulous red dress by The Kooples, talked about some of the new movies that will be premiering on Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ “Miracles of Christmas” holiday programming.

Check out what festive stories you can expect to see later this year–the countdown is on!

There has been a lot of recent news surrounding all of the holiday movies coming out this Christmas, naturally. I mean, we’re halfway through the year, the Upfronts have recently ended and this is the time when a lot of the movies are being filmed and/or cast, so it’s not surprising that the entertainment news would be heavily holiday-centered despite the impending summer.

What do we know so far? There will be new Hallmark movies from Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Danica McKeller and Kellie Martin coming that are currently TBD while Danielle Panabaker stars in “Christmas Joy”, Kellie Pickler heads to “Christmas at Graceland”, Erin Krakow and Niall Matter return for “Marrying Father Christmas” and LeAnn Rimes leads “It’s Christmas, Eve”.  A third installment from Richard Paul Evans‘ holiday anthology series titled “The Mistletoe Secret” will also premiere.

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One of my favorite new Hallmark Channel movies would most definitely be “Miss Christmas” starring Brooke d’Orsay and Marc Blucas. In the film, which recently premiered during the Countdown to Christmas programming, Holly Khun (d’Orsay) is a professional ‘tree finder’ for Chicago’s Radcliffe Tree lighting–think of it as the fictional version of the Millennium Park tree, and she’s on a mission to find the perfect tree.  When Holly receives a letter from a small town young boy promising his family’s tree, Holly heads straight there…only problem is, the boy’s dad (Blucas) isn’t willing to part with this tree.

Now that you have some background on the movie, let’s dive into the fashion!