LOGLINE
A wedding cake baker puts magical romantic fortunes in Christmas crackers and finds lasting love for himself and everyone else.
PITCH
Tom Smith gets more than he bargained for when his own magical love fortunes enchant a longtime customer in his wedding cake shop into falling in love with him. After reading the fortune in her Christmas noisemaker, she wants to marry him and eat wedding cake for the rest of her life. His wedding cake shop becomes known as a place where romantic messages for his customers prove true. His Christmas crackers are a worldwide phenomenon!
SYNOPSIS
Tom Smith, a wedding cake baker from Clerkenwell, London, loves Christmas crackers. His wedding cakes sit delicately in his shop window on fine china, decorated with colorful icing. Waiting for his own true love, he just keeps baking wedding cakes. In the year 1847, he introduces his crackers, which crackle like logs put on a fire in a twist of paper. Then one day, an elegant customer walks in the shop and announces that she has found a wedding cake for when she gets married. Mr. Smith asks when the wedding date is, so that the cake is finished on time. She explains that she’s not engaged yet, but she will be very soon when she finds the right man.
Then, she inquires as to the noisemakers in his shop, and Mr. Smith explains that those are his Christmas crackers, where he put magical love fortunes that come true every time. Believing that she needs all the love messages that she can get, she grabs a handful. Mr. Smith says he’s considering putting sweets, jewelry, and small toys in some of them. He thinks that expanding the merchandise might increase business. She opens her first cracker with a pop. Reading the love note in her Christmas cracker, the brunette woman gasps and looks up at Mr. Smith. She whispers out loud: “You’ve just met your true love.” Mr. Smith stammers and scratches his head. Before Mr. Smith could say anything else, Charlotte Thompson, a woman he has known since childhood, throws her arms around him and kisses him. She asks him to marry her, and she says that she’ll take every wedding cake in his shop for the rest of her life. He thinks her behavior is outrageous, and it must be Christmas magic from the fortunes.
At first, Mr. Smith tries to fight back, but after a moment, he figures there is no use in fighting with a gorgeous woman who loves his sweets. Christmas crackers! Mr. Smith cheers and kisses her back. He asks her to be his Mrs. Smith. She says “of course” and paints his lips with icing. Their shop becomes known as a magical place where romantic messages read by customers prove true every time, even if there are a few bumps along the way. Each year at Christmas, the lasting love of the Smiths is so overwhelming that it causes their Christmas crackers to spread all over the world. So, Mr. and Mrs. Smith live happily ever after with wedding cakes and magical love all around them.
Copyright 2022 Jennifer Waters
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