More Wedding Movies

 

It's still June and Weddings are the thing to do in June and the rest of the summer. I've been a bride once and a divorcee now but I still love looking back at my wedding. I've been many bridesmaids having to wear some outfits that just should never be. I never had to wear a seafoam green taffeta number with netting in the arms and skirt which catch a lot of bugs. This was a dress a friend had to wear. Anyhoo, I am picking 3 more recent films that can be considered rom-coms and here they are...

1. MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING- 1997

Julia Roberts played in quite a few of these flicks and, in this one, she is the best friend of a man she used to date but now are just best buds....until she meets his fiancée played by Cameron Diaz. Now, Julia wants her best friend back as her boyfriend and tries all sorts of tricks to get him back. She even brings in her other friend, who is gay and very handsome, to help her or, at least, tell her to smarten up. This is a fun flick where you can just watch and not worry about the world.

2. MY BIG, FAT, GREEK WEDDING- 2002

This was the surprise sleeper hit for the summer. It stars Nia Vangelos( who also wrote the script) as a mousy daughter of a large, boisterous Greek family that run a restaurant. She has a dad that believes windex is a cure all for everything, a loving mom, a crazy aunt ( played beautifully by Andrea Martin), a sister who thinks it's time to marry and have 6,000 kids and, in your face, brothers. Did I mention the nutty grandmother who sneaks into the next door neighbour's yard? In comes handsome John Corbett who finds this gal interesting but Nia, who likes him, feels she needs to stand on her own 2 feet and start looking a little better. She goes to school, finds a razor and calms down her big hair before meeting him again. We go through their courtship and see what he must deal with since he is marrying into this family. This was written in a somewhat autobiographical way and I enjoyed every minute! 

3. THE WEDDING CRASHERS-2005

I bet Joel hates this film...lol. it stars 2 semi-irritating stars in Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan as 2 best friends who crash weddings to score. They have a system from getting into weddings, how to portray themselves and how to get available women. They go to a very fancy wedding held by a senator, played by Christopher Walkin and his drunk, nympho wife, played by Jane Seymour and meet 2 sisters played by Rachel McAdams and scene stealing Isla Fischer who is hilarious. Owen falls for Rachel and agrees to go the senator’s compound meeting the rest of the weird family and Rachel’s ass fiance, played by Bradley Cooper. They end up getting more than they bargained for when they end up on the stately island. I find this funny…stupid, but Funny and love the scenes with the freaky sister, played by Fischer and their weird brother who is on the other side of weird. I enjoy watching it when it comes on tv. 

What other Wedding movies can you think of?

By the way, the Oscar winner music from yesterday, was “ Can You Feel the Love Tonight” with the nominated song being, “Circle of Life” and the song that got nuttin’ was “Let Me Be Your Wings”. I  kind of like that song better than the Oscar winner.