Lacey Chabert and Travis Van Winkle, the stars of Hallmark’s Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True, will meet fans on Thursday, November 19, 2026, from noon to 2 p.m. at Ryan’s Hallmark Shop, a Hallmark Gold Crown Store at 4066 W. Town Center Blvd. in Hunter’s Creek. The movie was filmed at Walt Disney World, just down the road from the store, and premieres November 28 on Hallmark Channel. The lineup all but confirms Ryan’s as the Orlando stop on Hallmark’s Jingle Stop Tour, which we are tracking on our Hallmark Countdown to Christmas 2026 hub.
Ryan’s named the two stars this week for the meet-and-greet photo op it first teased on November 1. Chabert plays Lindsey and Van Winkle plays Philip in Holiday Ever After, the first original movie Hallmark Channel and Walt Disney World made together. Lindsey’s family Christmas trip to Disney World gets complicated when she finds out the room next door belongs to Philip, a bad first date who is there with his own family. The movie premieres Saturday, November 28, at 8 p.m. ET, nine days after the meet-and-greet, with an extended cut on Hallmark+ the next day.
This is a bigger get than Chicago. When the Jingle Stop Tour visited Little Green Apple in Arlington Heights on October 14, none of the five stars who met fans were in Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story, the movie that put Chicago on the tour. Orlando is getting the two leads of its movie. In our first story on the Ryan’s stop, we told fans not to count on Lacey Chabert. We are very happy to be wrong.
This is big news for Orlando, Disney and Hallmark fans in Central Florida. Holiday Ever After was filmed in the parks so many of us live next door to, and now its two stars are coming to a neighborhood card shop before the movie even airs. Chabert is also back on Disney property in December to narrate the Candlelight Processional at EPCOT’s Festival of the Holidays on December 22 and 23. Ryan’s is our hometown Hallmark store, and we plan to cover the meet-and-greet in person.
The announcement does not say whether there is a purchase requirement, wristbands or a cap on the line. Two hours is a short window for two stars this popular, so plan to arrive early and follow us for event rules. The store sits in Hunter’s Creek on Town Center Boulevard, a few minutes north of The Loop on John Young Parkway, so put the Town Center address in your map.
Hallmark has not announced a premiere event for Holiday Ever After. Our review goes live when the movie premieres November 28, and we will add event rules and any premiere news to our Countdown to Christmas hub as soon as Ryan’s or Hallmark shares them.
