![]() ![]() It is the Sandman Signature Hotel (not to be confused with the Sandman Hotel down the street) and boasts a unique front entrance. The hotel we saw in this movie is also located in Langley and I recognized it immediately when it showed up in the film. The owners have four bright and colorful hanging baskets in red, the perfect pop of color! Other than that, the place looks very much as it did on screen, right down to the potted plants at the doorstep. In real life, there is no fountain in the front yard, like the one we saw in the movie and the large boxwood landscaping we saw leading up to the door is gone. And I love the paint color! The front door is gorgeous, the porch inviting. I was drawn to so many features of this stately home including the shape of the black shutters, the curved windows and arches in between the porch columns, the stone work on the front of the house and the architectural knees, that appear to ‘hold up’ the window box and second floor. Again, there were no stats available online about this home, which I always find disappointing. It played the home of Sam & Helen Michaels, parents of the female lead in this Hallmark movie. The neighboring home I mentioned was scene in Love By Chance. Although the view was at a weird angle, I recognized it and quickly pulled up the screenshot of another house…from another movie…and just like that, I found two houses for the time of one! (gotta love that!) While searching for David’s house, I was looking very closely at my screenshots when the next-door neighbor’s white arbor and stone wall caught my eye. I tell you this because it is significant in how I was able to scratch another two houses off my list with only one hunt. It seems I am always on the prowl for ‘Hallmark houses’ so I have begun keeping screenshots of my ‘still looking for’ homes. In the case of this home, there was no information available, so I do not know the size or age of this one. As I have mentioned here before, there is no Zillow in Canada so finding out details of a home can be tricky if it hasn’t been previously listed for sale. As you can see, the home looks exactly as it did on screen and maybe even better, with the addition of those colorful hanging baskets above the porch. And I really love that oval address plaque, so much so, I’m thinking of ordering one for my own house. I love David’s house, from the pitches in the roof and the darling window flower boxes, to the slightly curved windows and simple porch railing. This is a family friendly street, lined with those tall black lantern street lights I adore so much, and it is obvious why it was chosen for production. The day I was there, I saw several people walking their dogs and noticed a little park close by. I had a hunch that David’s house was somewhere in Langley and sure enough, I found it in the Murrayville area, close to my cousin’s place.ĭavid’s house is in a beautifully manicured neighborhood of newer homes. Thanks to my friends at What’s Filming, I learned that the Yorkson Creek Middle School was used as the high school. While set in the small town of Arlington Heights, Illinois, it is primarily Langley, B.C. (thankfully!)Īlright, let’s talk locations. But we also didn’t have social media back then, documenting our every move, shining a spotlight on us. ![]() (and I much prefer it that way) I mean, just being asked was stressful enough, without any of the pomp & circumstance that goes into these “promposals”. There was no such thing as a “promposal”, we kept it simple while still keeping it real. (what can I say….inquiring minds want to know) Back in the late 70’s – early 80’s, you were simply asked to go to prom. ![]() While writing this story, my curiosity got the best of me and I actually looked into the origin of the “ promposal”, which I learned was first documented back in 2001. I have been out of high school for nearly four decades, so this movie was a real eye-opener for me. But when the star begins to fall for the boy’s teacher, things get complicated”. “When a small-town boy’s video “promposal” to a star goes viral, it scores him a date to prom with his celebrity crush. (she is absolutely ah-mazing in everything she does) And personally, I think this is my FAVE role of the oh-so-talented Andrea Brooks, who was crazy-good in this film and totally nailed her role of publicist and friend. Andrew Walker (swoon) and the lovely Shenae Grimes-Beech, or the incredibly gifted Bailee Madison. (that was forever ago for me) But this one had such a fantastic cast, I gave it a watch and ended up loving it!!! I mean, you cannot go wrong with the likes of Mr. At first glance, I wasn’t convinced Date With Love was a movie I would enjoy a whole lot, given the subject matter: high school prom. ![]()
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