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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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