Winery Wedding Guide Goes to the Movies

Goofy, raunchy, hilarious, not your usual chick-flick. Annie (Kristen Wig) finds her life unraveling as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudoph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids on a wild ride down the road to matrimony . Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals.

This one's perfect for a laugh-out-loud girls' night out with your bridesmaids. In this 2009 comedy, Emma Allen (Anne Hathaway) and Liv Lerner (Kate Hudson), best friends since childhood, have both dreamed of walking down the aisle at the glamorous NYC Plaza Hotel. Each becomes engaged at the same time, but trouble brews as they realize they are booked there on the same day. In the end, as it should, friendship wins.

Watch this newly released documentary of seventeen House of Windsor weddings that took place between 1919 and 1999 before sitting down to relive via DVD William and Kate’s big day, “The Royal Wedding.” Included in the documentary are newsreel footage of the 1947 wedding of a  lively and lovely princess Elizabeth to handsome Philip Mountbatten and the ill-fated exchange of vows between Charles and Di. Candid, up-close moments from the past make for fascinating viewing while putting the big hats, big church, big crowds of the recent royal pageant in historical perspective.

Steve Martin stars as the father of the bride in this 1991 remake of Vincente Minnelli’s 1950 classic.  Martin is terrific as a loving, but penny pinching, father having a hard time letting go of his little girl, played by Kimberly Williams. Diane Keaton co-stars as mother of the bride. Martin Short is a scene stealer in his role as an outrageous, flamboyant wedding planner.

In this 1997 hit, best friends Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) and Michael O’Neill (Dermot Mulroney) make a pact during their college days that if  both are still single at age 28 they’ll marry each other.  As Julianne’s 28^th birthday approaches, she receives a heart-breaking call from Michael announcing that he’s engaged to gorgeous Kimberly Wallace (Cameron Diaz). The situation heats up when Julianne is tapped as Kimberly’s maid of honor.

You’re undoubtedly not hoping for crashers at your wedding, but this 2005 comedy is a great choice for laughing off prenuptial jitters. Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) star as womanizers dedicated to their craft of sneaking into weddings and doing their best to seduce the bridesmaids while loading up on free food and booze – until they get in very hot water.