A Checklist of All the Things You Are Sure to Find in Any Wedding Comedy
From New York magazine:
Over the next two weekends, audiences will be treated to not one, not two, but three wedding-themed romantic comedies: Something Borrowed, Jumping the Broom, and Bridesmaids. While this is a particularly concentrated dose of wedding-related cinema, this romantic-comedy subgenre has been flourishing for the last two decades. We’ve had warring brides (Bride Wars), awkward brides (Muriel’s Wedding), runaway brides (Runaway Bride), wannabe brides (My Best Friend’s Wedding, 27 Dresses), wannabe grooms (Made of Honor), and frequent wedding attendees (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Wedding Crashers), among many, many others, and there is no sign of a letup. (Just today comes news of another one.) All of these movies share the basic conventions of its mother genre, the romantic comedy (the man you hate is perfect for you; women binge eat when they get bad news; the girl gets the boy, and vice versa … except, of course, to its eternal credit, inMy Best Friend’s Wedding). However, wedding comedies have a list of specific staples all their own. Herewith, a checklist of the many elements no wedding-based romantic comedy would be perfect without.
The list:
Little Girl Who Has Dreamed of Getting Married Her Whole Life
Frequent Wedding Attendee
Men Perplexed by Women
Trying-on-the-Dress Scene
Dud Fiancé
Ultracompetitive Bouquet Toss
Bridesmaid Draft
Memorable Wedding Speech
Ring Shenanigans
Adorable Old People
Sabotage
Wedding Interruptus
The article has a lot of examples per each of these items, which you can read here, but what do you think? Is the list exhaustive? Anything it’s missing?
And maybe you just throw all of them together to create the ultimate wedding movie.
HT to @opedr for the link.