{"id":2074,"date":"2011-07-27T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T01:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:40:04","slug":"what-rom-coms-tell-you-about-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/2011\/07\/what-rom-coms-tell-you-about-weddings\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rom-Coms Tell You About Weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Recently, we ran a survey on SingaporeBrides&#8217; Facebook Page in which we asked for our readers\u2019 favourite romantic comedies that involve at least one wedding. My intention was to watch the Top 5 movies and note down the things we can learn about weddings from each of them. And what an unexpected result we got!<\/i><\/p><p><b class=\"special\">I<\/b> still can\u2019t believe I did it. Me, a guy, married and not desperate, watched five romantic comedies in a row for this article! No, I wasn\u2019t coerced into it nor did I lose a bet, and no, I wasn\u2019t being nice to my wife. I was alone (although surrounded by many people, mostly in a cafe and in a restaurant).<\/p><div class=\"banner\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">OA_show(5);<\/script><\/div><p>Nearly everybody voted for Love Actually, which turns out, in my opinion, to be the least \u201cwedding-y\u201d in the whole list! Because seriously, apart from that short wedding scene at the beginning, there\u2019s really nothing else in there on the topic. It\u2019s more about budding new loves and rocky older ones. Is that why it\u2019s so good? Anyway, I\u2019ve seen that movie quite a few times already, so I went for the next five most-voted-for movies in our poll. Two of these I had not seen before, and two I had seen only once. Yes, I have seen some of them. I AM married after all, am I not? Sometimes I just can\u2019t avoid these flicks.<\/p><p>So I watched these five movies in a day, not with the intention of, say, crying my heart out, or gouging my eyes out or any such thing, but rather of noting down any sort of good wedding advice from these movies. Kind of like a list of what\u2019s good, what\u2019s bad and what\u2019s not so cute about weddings.<\/p><h3>Here are the results-<\/h3><p><b><b>#1: The Wedding Planner (2007), with JLo and Matthew McCon\u2026 McCona\u2026 McSomething<\/b><\/b><\/p><p><i>Rating:<\/i> Bad!<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"The Wedding Planner\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Wedding-Planner.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><i class=\"special\">Photo by Columbia Pictures \u2013 \u00a9 2001 &#8211; Columbia Pictures, Inc. &#8211; All Rights Reserved<\/i><p>What happened in this show?! Such an unprofessional wedding planner! I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it turned a few brides away from hiring planners in the following years. One good piece of advice here is that you should always marry a girl whose dad is willing to cover all the expenses, as long as his little girl is happy! No seriously, if you can plan without having to scrape at every cent you have, you\u2019ll probably have it easier, right? Now I didn\u2019t say better, just easier.<\/p><p><b><b>#2: My Best Friend\u2019s Wedding (1997), with Julia Roberts and a young Cameron Diaz<\/b><\/b><\/p><p><i>Rating:<\/i> Not So Cute<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"My Best Friend's Wedding\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/My-Best-Friends-Wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><i class=\"special\">Photo by TriStar Pictures \u2013 \u00a9 1997<\/i><p>I\u2019ll say it right away: don\u2019t invite your lifelong unappeased love crush to your wedding. Clear and simple. But man, on another note, some movies don\u2019t age well, and this movie sure falls into that category. I had never seen it before this, so maybe it\u2019s because my memory\u2019s perspective didn\u2019t click in. I just found it really strange and bad. And the hairstyles! Horrible. As for the good thing in this show, well, I really only just liked that big garden party they had on the morning of the wedding. That was nice. Of course, most couples here are busy with gate-crashing and tea ceremonies, but Singapore sure is a nice place for garden parties &#8211; if you don\u2019t mind the heat.<\/p><p><b><b>#3: 27 Dresses (2008), with the blonde girl from Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/b><\/b><\/p><p><i>Rating:<\/i> Not So Cute<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"27 Dresses\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/27-Dresses.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><i class=\"special\">Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.imdb.com<\/a><\/i><p>One thing in this movie that made both my wife and I go: \u201cHey! I do that too!\u201d is when they talked about looking at the groom\u2019s face instead of at the bride&#8217;s when she walks down the aisle. That smile is just unbeatable, and even if you don\u2019t like the guy (hey, some guys still hope for a shot at the girl walking down the aisle), you can\u2019t help but feel emotional. Ah, I like weddings. And I like movies. But sometimes I\u2019m glad somebody invented the fast-forward function, for a fashion show with 27 weird-looking dresses, well, that\u2019s a bit too &#8220;chick flick&#8221; for me.<\/p><p><b><b>#4: The Wedding Singer (1998), with Adam and Drew<\/b><\/b><\/p><p><i>Rating:<\/i> Good!<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"The Wedding Singer\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Wedding-Singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><i class=\"special\">Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.imdb.com<\/a><\/i><p>This one got old too, but at least, being a parody of the 80s, it keeps some charm. Anyhow, do consider a band and dances, or just a DJ and dances. Or a tape and dances, or just one dance! They\u2019re so much fun, and don\u2019t you worry about what you\u2019ll look like dancing; just make it a joke if you\u2019re lousy. Actually, if you\u2019re really shy and nervous, it will at least have the advantage of moving some of the focus away from you! But don\u2019t go all the way and hire an attention-seeker like we see in that show, because it would ruin your evening.<\/p><p><b><b>#5: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), with Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell<\/b><\/b><\/p><p><i>Rating:<\/i> Not So Cute<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Four Weddings and a Funeral\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Four-Weddings-and-a-Funeral.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><i class=\"special\">Photo by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment \u2013 \u00a9 1994<\/i><p>Any girl reading this? If so, I have to tell you this: don\u2019t bring your girl friends along when shopping for a gown. It&#8217;s a waste of time, and they\u2019ll just smile and tell you what you want to hear. Instead, bring a guy who&#8217;s got the hots for you! From his reactions you\u2019ll know just how good you look in the dress. And of course, if you want to play it traditional, that guy can\u2019t be your groom, because he shouldn\u2019t see your gown before the wedding. Well, that\u2019s a tradition in the West, anyway; we think it would jinx the marriage somehow. Any ugly stuff in here? Oh yes. Don\u2019t get Mr Bean to officiate the wedding!<\/p><p><b><b>Special Mention: Love Actually (2003), with Colin, Keira, Hugh, Liam and Rowan!<\/b><\/b><\/p><p><i>Rating:<\/i> Good!<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Love Actually\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporebrides.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Love-Actually-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><i class=\"special\">Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.imdb.com<\/a><\/i><p>I wasn\u2019t really going to leave this one out. Yes, there\u2019s a wedding at the beginning, in a nice chapel, and full of surprises prepared by the Best Man. It\u2019s all wonderful. But my advice here: don\u2019t let your best man prepare something like that for you! It never works out like in the movies, and you might end up with a cacophony of separate acts trying to pull something together. If you\u2019re lucky it\u2019ll be funny, but the margin of error is just too high. Better play it safe. At the very least, be in on it, help with the preparations, and keep your hand on the plug, because you might need to pull it.<\/p><p>Wedding movies: source of inspiration or source of fear? What you want above all is a wedding that is unique to yourself and your bride, and for which no one can say: \u201cHey! It\u2019s like in that show!\u201d So watch them, enjoy them, absorb them if you can, but in the end you just got to leave them out of the picture and go with your own ideas.<\/p><hr\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we ran a survey on SingaporeBrides&#8217; Facebook Page in which we asked for our readers\u2019 favourite romantic comedies that involve at least one wedding. 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