Thanks to a variety of tax breaks, one of the most popular filming locations for Hallmark movies is in and around Vancouver, Canada. And one of the popular settings for Hallmark holiday movies is a quaint, Christmas-y village. But there's not always enough of them to go around. "Every movie wants that small, cute town," Jamie Lake, production manager for the Vancouver-based production company Front Street Pictures, told The Wall Street Journal. "There's only so many small, cute towns within driving distance of the film zone."
Even with the potential limitations, filmmakers are still using British Columbia to stand in for any number of different Hallmark locales. Some of the locations near Vancouver that have been used as the perfect backdrop to a tale of finding love at Christmas — according to Tourism Vancouver — include Steveston for filming "Hope at Christmas," Maple Ridge for "Road to Christmas," and Fort Langley for "The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells."
In some Hallmark Christmas movies, the location is a big part of the plot. "The Mistletoe Secret" is about getting the town of Midway, Utah written about by a travel writer. While Midway, Utah is a real town, the movie was filmed in the small town of Aldergrove, about an hour southeast of Vancouver (via Aldergrove Star).
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