WEDDING BELLS
Weddings are an excellent movie subject, and one of the most popular was the exuberant My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), which unknown Nia Vardalos wrote and starred in. It is a tremendous amount of fun. The contrast between the bride’s seemingly unending bevy of outgoing, emotional relatives and the groom’s buttoned up Ivy League parents is constantly funny, and you’ll learn of the healing properties of Windex!
Implausible as it may seem, an even better ethnic wedding film than Greek Wedding appeared the year before, and is almost unknown. Monsoon Wedding (2001) is the story of an arranged Indian wedding priced way beyond the means of the bride’s doting parents. By turns humorous and serious, it examines the tangled web of families, traditions, secrets and loyalties in new and exciting ways. 
Another excellent sleeper is Muriel’s Wedding (1994 Australia) in which our heroine leaves the farm for the bright lights of Sydney with her adventurous girlfriend and gets married for all the wrong reasons. Constantly surprising, and with a cast of little-known Aussie actors, this is a treasure about what is important and what is not.
Weighing in from England is the delightful Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). This is the movie that introduced us to the charmingly awkward Hugh Grant and to the icily beautiful Andie MacDowell. Mr. Grant is a confirmed good-time guy who suddenly notices that all his friends are tying the knot. Playing the field no longer seems such a great idea. Ms. MacDowell captures his heart and is harder to get than a 
moon rock. There are delightful moments at all the weddings, and at the funeral. Milestone events are sometimes a wake-up call, even for a good-natured rake like Mr. Grant.
Julia Roberts’ best friend in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) isn’t a girl, it’s childhood buddy Dermot Mulroney. The two had pledged that if they were both still single at age 28, they’d just marry each other. But Mulroney shows up with fiancé Cameron Diaz, and Ms. Roberts goes pleasantly ballistic, trying all sorts of subtle and obvious ploys to sabotage the wedding. I’ll let you find out how it ends.
Other good wedding movies include Father of the Bride (1950) with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor. The 1991 remake with Steve Martin is a pale imitation. For something completely different, there’s Robert Altman’s A Wedding (1978) with his usual cast of thousands and disjointed story line.
All of the movies in this article are available on DVD. All are fine for 10 and up.