It’s wedding season!
From Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ surprise engagement to Kim and Kanye’s elaborate bridal shower and wedding, summer is quickly approaching and star studded nuptials are more lively than ever.
Jodie Foster and Alexandra Hedison took the country by surprise after marrying Alexandra Hedison in April, Patrick Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi married jeweler Albert Deprisco this month and the list just keeps growing.
But while you sit around waiting for the photographs of the beautiful dresses, lavish rings, decorations, and an a-list of celebrity guests, here’s another way to enjoy the season of marriage: a list of must-see wedding movies, in no particular order.
From wedding planners to wedding dates and bridesmaids, these movies, for me at least, have been the best wedding movies to date. With that being said, readers, we are gathered here today to bring to you the top 10 wedding movies to see this season!
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10. 27 Dresses
Jane is ALWAYS a bridesmaid. The dresses are always perfect, the parties are neverending; she was the perfect wedding planner, the kind that would hold your dress for you while you pee. That is, until her sister gets engaged to the man that Jane’s in love with. From the movie that made Elton John’s “B-b-benny and the Jets” outrageously funny, Katherine Heigl and James Marsden star in this romantic comedy that shows us that sometimes we’re too busy helping other people’s happy endings instead of creating our own.
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9. The Wedding Date
Worried that she might have to go to her sister’s wedding alone and face the fiance that left her, Kat (Debra Messing), hires an escort named Nick (Dermot Mulroney) to pose as her boyfriend to make him jealous. Things take a sudden turn when Nick succeeds in convincing everyone, including Kat, that he is in love with her. “I found him in the yellow pages.”
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8. The Wedding Planner
“Those who can’t do, teach. Those who can’t wed, plan.” Jennifer Lopez plays a wedding planner with no luck herself in the department of love. That is, until Eddie (Matthew McConaughey), the man who saved her from a loose garbage bin sweeps her off her feet. Little did she know that he was engaged to her client.
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7. Bride Wars
Two best friends (Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson) have planned every second of their weddings since they were children. When the day came that they both became engaged, they both set off to book a date at the Plaza Hotel, just like they’d planned. One big mistake caused their weddings to be booked on the same day, and it suddenly became more than a wedding, it was a war.
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6. Wedding Crashers
John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are your ultimate wedding crashers. The two friends use their charm and wit to get into weddings to meet woman and have one night stands. At the biggest wedding of the year, that of the daughter of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, William Cleary (Christopher Walken) the friends have an eye for his other daughters, Gloria (Isla Fisher) and Claire (Rachel McAdams). After Jeremy sleeps with Gloria she becomes obsessive and he quickly tries to get out of it. It’s no hope after his partner john actually falls for Gloria and has no choice but to put up with it.
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5. Made of Honor
Tom has it all. The inventor of the coffee coaster by day and play boy by night, Tom (played by Patrick Dempsey) never had trouble landing a girl. His best friend Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) was the only constant woman in his life and when she leaves for her six week business trip to Scotland and returns with a fiance, things take a turn when he realizes that he’s in love with her. Problem is, he’s her maid of honor.
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4. Sweet Home Alabama
Melanie (Reese Witherspoon) and Jake (Josh Lucas) made a vow to get married as children. Flash forward years later, Melanie starts a new life as a fashion socialite in New York, living the life she always wanted, or at least she convinces herself that she is. After the Mayor’s son proposes to her, she has no choice to go back to her home in Alabama to demand a divorce from Jake who had refused to send the papers to her for the past seven years. Now Melanie will have to choose between her childhood love and the man she promised to marry.
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3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Toula (Nia Vardalos) was always expected to marry a greek boy. At 30-years-old, being the only woman that age in her family unmarried, her family continued to push the matter until finally she meets Ian (John Corbett). Everything seemed to fall into place, except one BIG detail; Ian isn’t greek. With the interference of her very large Greek family, Toula and Ian must prove to them that they are really meant for each other.
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2. Bridesmaids
There’s probably no way to have a list of wedding movies without Bridesmaids. This raunchy romantic comedy starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne centers around a woman named Annie (Wiig) who has seemingly lost it all. With her bakery officially closed and a failing attempt at a friends with benefits relationship, the only happiness in her life is her newly engaged best friend Lillian (Rudolph), who entrusted her to be her maid of honor. Things go haywire when Helen (Byrne) tries to compete for the best friend/maid of honor position in probably the funniest wedding movie you will ever see.
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1. The Proposal
Sandra Bullock plays and intimidating book publisher, who after having found out that she is to be deported over an expired visa, convinces her assistant (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her. If the undeniable chemistry between the two isn’t enough, just picture Betty White singing along to Ludacris’ “Get Low.” Definitely a must see in my book.