“What is your favorite movie wedding and why?”
I wanted to package an engagement gift for a friend with the best movie weddings so I thought it would be fun to have a commenting contest to figure out the best movie weddings from our audience. Leave a comment by October 31 with your favorite movie wedding and reason to win a FREE dress from shabby apple! shabby apple often has dresses that can be used as fashionable bridesmaids dresses so check often. The cute dress that shabby apple is giving away on Big Fat Cake:
Off the top of my head, favorites include:
- Monster-in-law – I love JLo’s wedding dress!
- The Wedding Singer – I just think Adam Sandler is funny.
To spur some wedding movie thoughts for you, here’s a top 10 list from EOnline:
- Sex and the City 2
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- A Walk to Remember
- Father of the Bride
- Runaway Bride
- 27 Dresses
- He’s Just Not That Into You
- Wedding Crashers
- Shrek
- Love Actually
What is your favorite movie wedding?
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The princess bride can’t be beat. The bishop delivering the ceremony with his lisp accent trying to say Princess Buttercup! That dweam within a dweam! Hahaha! Classic.
omg, my big fat greek wedding is awesome, and i think it portrays alot of the craziness that goes on between the whole union of 2 families with different backgrounds. but in the ends reminds us that no matter how crazy our families are and how they try to tell you how your wedding should be, family is family and you’re still marrying the one that you love!
I also love the Princess Bride and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (my Greek best friend says everything is 100% correct, but he didn’t get the Windex thing). I’ll add The Wedding Planner in there. (And Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Spaceballs both had great wedding scenes.)
My best friends wedding – while not the happy ending that everyone wanted, it is by far one of the best films ever! It shows some of the things that could potentially happen during a wedding:
1. pressure from parents of groom/bride regarding job/career
2. dealing with crazy relatives that you have to invite (the singing twins)
3. getting to know his/her friends and hoping they like you (Julia’s character and the bride)
4. despite all the drama, she looks gorgeous, he looks gorgeous, they get married.
THE END!
I absolutely love the movie, “The Wedding” it was filmed in the 70′s but is absolutely hilarious. It follows the story of a family and all their crazy antics during the time surrounding the daughter’s wedding. A must see for sure!
My favorite on screen wedding is “Rachel Getting Married” of course, the circumstances surrounding Rachel’s sister are not ideal, but what a gorgeous wedding full of amazing music.
“Sweet Home Alabama”!
Rain starts to pour at the moment, and Melanie tells her friends to get the party ready as she’s about to “go find me a groom!”. She runs out and later finds him at the beach… 
awww I love this movie so much and especially the wedding scene is so endearing, funny, and sweet! It brings out the southern girl in me 
Okay…I think I got too excited and wrote too much :p
Set in the backyard of the Carmichael Plantation in Alabama on a sunny day (at least partially!), Reese Witherspoon (Melanie) looks so romantic and pure in her satin wedding dress with soft straps and her trendy bird cage veil as she walks down the aisle with her father. It was a picture perfect scene with the handsome Patrick Dempsey (Andrew) standing by the altar. However, this beautiful wedding all of a sudden gets shaken when an old gentleman (her lawyer) shows up to tell Melanie that her divorce is not finalized! Melanie is torn between her handsome prince from New York and Jake (Josh Lucas). The part where Melanie realizes that she is still in love with her teenage sweetheart is so touching! It’s hilarious when Melanie, in her gorgeous gown, punches the mayor in the face for insulting her mom!
I’ll go with Father of the Bride. I love how it is more about the family, in particular the parents of the bride than the bride herself. It captures what a wedding is, from start to finish- including not just the couple but their family! I especially love the scene where the newly wed are dancing and the father of the bride is watching the moment in slow motion. Even with no words you can feel how he feels just by watching the expression on his face- the joy of a father watching the love his daughter and new son-in-law shares- priceless=)
The Wedding Singer is hands down my favorite wedding movie, and prob my favorite Adam Sandler movie of all time. One of his most underrated movies.
Hilarious from start to finish, so many cameos it’s not even funny, an AMAZING 80s sound track (ps who DOESN’T want to relive the 80s?!), and some the of the cutest moments like Robbie serenading Julia on the airplane at the end of the movie.
How is “The Hangover” not on the list? It’s a movie for both guys and girls! (ok, maybe more guys than girls…) You have the classic guy’s outing of going crazy the night before the wedding with crazy hilarity (if Ken Jeong is running nekkid, everyone is going to laugh). Meanwhile, all women fall in love with the wedding (i think…).
Runaway Bride. I love when she figures out how she likes her eggs cooked. And how she finds out who she really is and who she really loves!
Ok so “The Wedding Planner” might have every bride’s worst nightmare as a plot (fiancee falling for the wedding planner), but the romance and sweet moments make it a winning wedding movie!
Hi, what about “Bridesmaids” — you can’t beat the scene where they get foodpoisoning!
And then there’s “Betsy’s Wedding” written/directed by Alan Alda about an off-beat, jewish fashion student whose marrying into a wealthy WASP-y type of family. The parents end up accidentally renting a tent from the mob, and it ends up flooding but it’s a beautiful wedding nonetheless.
And then there’s “The Family Wedding” with Forrest Whittaker about two overbearing dads and a major culture clash.
I adore this post, I’m curious to see if there are any movies that I haven’t yet seen. Ever since getting engaged, I’ve been watching every wedding movie I can get my hands on
Don’t laugh, but I love Kermit and Miss Piggy’s wedding in “The Muppets Take Manhattan”. Honestly, all weddings should be like that – all-singing, all-dancing and full of monsters and talking animals! If you’ve never seen it I recommend you take a look. Like so much of Jim Henson’s work it has real heart, but best of all it leaves me grinning like an idiot every time I see it. (As a UK-based male I’m out of the running for the dress, but this is a terrific post!)
For some reason The Wedding Planner has always been one of my favorite wedding movies. It’s one that I’ve watched over and over again but somehow never get old of it!
I love the wedding scene in The Graduate. Or really the scene right afterwards where they are riding off together, and they aren’t really talking, just sitting there. so great!
Since some of my favorites are already listed above, I’ll say that the ending of the movie Hitch where Albert and Allegra dance is one of the most memorable wedding scenes. Throw that q-tip away!
Definitely My Best Friend’s Wedding. I love the scene where Mulroney is chasing Diaz, and Roberts is chasing Mulroney, until she realizes that no one is chasing her.
My favorite movie is Wedding Planner! I cry every time I watch it. I know the feeling of doing something for everyone else but not doing it for yourself. Plus I think JLo is beautiful.
I think I’ll go with the wedding in “While You Were Sleeping.” This is my favorite movie to watch every year during the holidays. It is such a sweet movie. The part when Sandra Bullock’s character Lucy objects to her own wedding and gives a speech about how she fell in love with Peter and Jack’s family (along with Jack) while Peter was in a coma is touching while staying quirky. Love this movie a lot.
SHREK! <3
I absolutely love the movie Leap Year. It’s got the whole opposites attract thing going on between Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, the rediscovery of romance in the beautiful Irish countryside, and the disasterous wedding crashing! The wedding Adams and Goode crash is so beautiful – reception by a lake, the entire ceiling of the tent covered in twinkling lights, the sweet toasts. And the cliffside proposal? Ah! Can’t get enough.
Betsy’s Wedding. I love Molly Ringwald and loved that movie especially the rede ton where they are all dancing in the flood. Showed that even with the flood happening in the tent the wedding went on and the bride and groom still showed the love for each other.
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