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A
fun idea for a pre-wedding girls' night in is a night watching videos
with a wedding theme. It is also a great chance to get some ideas for
wedding dresses or music for your ceremony or for that first dance as
husband and wife.
So grab some girl friends, a large bowl of popcorn
and get into the spirit of your wedding.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Starring: Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell
Story: this is the story of hapless Charles who is always a wedding
guest and never a groom! Until he meets Carrie and falls madly in love.
But she marries someone else. Will Charles ever find true love?
Music: "But Not for Me" by G & I Gershwin, performed by Elton John;
"Chapel of Love" by Spector, Barry & Greenwich, performed by Elton
John
Verdict: a great romantic comedy that will have you laughing all the way through.
Runaway Bride
Starring: Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
Story: Ike Graham, a city newspaper columnist, writes an unflattering
story about a small-town woman who has a reputation for leaving men
stranded at the alter. After being fired from his paper, Ike sets out
to prove he was right, but will he become stranded groom number four
instead?
Music: "You're the Only One for Me" by Schack, Karlin & Rich; "I
Love You" by Folles, Folles & Hyler; "Ave Maria" by Schubert;
"Canon & Guigue for Three Violins & Keyboard" by Pachabel;
"March from the Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart; "Jesu, Joy of Man's
Desiring" by Bach; "Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin" by Wagner; "Wedding
March" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Mendelssohn; "Air on the G
String" by Bach
Verdict: a light-hearted rather than funny movie which is nonetheless enjoyable
The Wedding Planner
Mary
Fiore is San Francisco's most successful wedding planner.
She's professional, organised and unlucky in love. She just
can't find a Mr Right for herself. Until, that is, she falls literally
for Steve Edison. But Steve is the finance of Mary's biggest client
ever, a rich heiress. Now Mary has to decide - true love or her job.
Music: "Wedding March" by Mendelssohn; "Bridal Chorus" by Wagner; "Canon in D"
by Pachelbel; "I Honestly Love You" by Peter Allen and Jeff Barry.
Monsoon Wedding
A wonderfully chaotic ride through Indian life during the lead up to
the arranged marriage of Aditi and Hemant. The extended Verma family
reunites from across the world and old tensions arise as the
preparations for the last-minute marriage are completed.
Backdropped
against real footage of New Dehli, the summer heat and the impending
monsoons, Monsoon Wedding is a colourful, vibrant, musical and
fascinating journey.
Just Married
Sarah and Tom are madly in love and have a wonderful relationship - until they get married that is.
A
disastrous honeymoon in which they don?t get to consummate their
marriage shows up their different backgrounds. Their problems are not
helped by Sarah?s snobbish family and her ex-boyfriend who turns up to
stay at the couple?s honeymoon hotel. Returning home tired and angry
they separate and reflect on where they went wrong.
Can true love
triumph over adversity?
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Toula is Greek, 30 and works in her parents? restaurant as a
?seating hostess?. Worst of all, according to her father, she is
unmarried. Try as he might, he cannot find a good Greek man for her.
But Toula finds her own man, gorgeous Ian. Problem is Ian is not Greek
and the couple find their cultures clashing when their parents meet in
hilarious circumstances.
But love prevails and their wedding is
a typical Greek wedding - big, loud and full of fun and family. Music: "Wedding March" by Mendelssohn; "Wedding March" by Wagner; "Waltz from
Coppelia" by Delibes.
The Wedding Banquet
Taiwanese Wai-Tung lives in New York and is handsome, successful and, unknown to his parents, gay.
Back
home his parents, worried that he isn't married, enrol him in a dating
agency to find him a suitable bride. Simon, Wai-Tung's partner,
suggests Wai-Tung marries an illegal immigrant named Wei Wei who is
desperate to stay in America. Thrilled by their son's upcoming marriage
Wai-Tung's parents immediately fly to America.
The small
registry ceremony turns into a full scale wedding banquet where 'everyone wants to kiss the bride - except the groom!'
Runaway Bride
Ike Graham, a city newspaper columnist, writes an unflattering story
about a small-town woman who has a reputation for leaving men stranded
at the alter. After being fired from his paper, Ike sets out to
prove he was right, but will he become stranded groom number four
instead?
Music: "You?re the Only One for Me" by Schack, Karlin &
Rich; "I Love You" by Folles, Folles & Hyler; "Ave Maria" by
Schubert; "Canon & Guigue for Three Violins and Keyboard" by
Pachelbel.
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