The episode depicts the show's central character, Vicar and parish council member Geraldine Granger (Dawn French), spending her second Christmas in the village of Dibley.
The first one is with two of her fellow parish council members, Frank Pickle (John Bluthal) and Jim Trott (Trevor Peacock).
The fourth is offered to her, after she has attended the other three, by the remaining parish council member, Owen Newitt (Roger Lloyd-Pack); he initially told the vicar he was not going to invite her, much to her relief, but he mistook her joy as a subtle way of asking to join him for lunch.
Whilst at home resting from all the food she has consumed, Tristian Campbell (Peter Capaldi), the producer who worked on Songs of Praise in Dibley, knocks at Granger's door.
He leaves with both of them happy, but he returns with his fiancée Aoife (Orla Brady), and Granger realises Campbell meant he wanted her to conduct the ceremony and not be the bride.
[3] Alice tells the vicar that Only Fools and Horses is more entertaining than the story of Jesus' birth as the latter lacks comedy, adding "that Rodney, what a plonker".
This was similar to when fellow Dibley cast member Emma Chambers (Alice Tinker) died in February 2018, when the episode "Love and Marriage" was aired in her memory.