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Top 25 MOVIES FOR BRIDESMAIDS 

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For the Nostalgic, Storyteller, MOVIE and Cinema Lovers

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WELCOME

For MOVIE LOVERS

the best bridal-themed movie night picks?

Planning a hen party? Make it unforgettable with a movie night packed with laughter, love, and bridal magic! Gather your bridesmaids, pop some bubbly, and enjoy films that set the perfect mood for celebrating the bride-to-be. Romantic comedies like Bridesmaids and 27 Dresses bring humor and heart, while classics like Mamma Mia! promise feel-good sing-alongs. For something unconventional, try The Wedding Date or Runaway Bride. Tailor the playlist to the bride’s taste for a night full of joy and bonding. With these movie picks, your hen party will be an evening of fun and cherished memories before the big day!

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OUR TOP LIST

BY SOUL MIND HEART

  1. "Bridesmaids"

  2. "My Best Friend's Wedding"

  3. "Four Weddings and a Funeral"

  4. "The Hangover"

  5. "27 Dresses"

  6. "Maid of Honor"

  7. "The Bachelor"

  8. "The Proposal"

  9. "Love Actually"

  10. "Muriel's Wedding"

  11. "The Wedding Singer"

  12. "Sweet Home Alabama"

  13. "The Wedding Planner"

  14. "The Notebook"

  15. "Something Borrowed"

  16. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

  17. "Bridget Jones's Diary"

  18. "The Wedding Date"

  19. "Runaway Bride"

  20. "The Princess Bride"

  21. "My Best Friend's Wedding"

  22. "Love & Other Disasters"

  23. "The Wedding Ringer"

  24. "The Wedding Party"

  25. "Father of the Bride"

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THE TOP ROMANTIC COMEDIES MOVIES TO WATCH WITH YOUR BRIDESMAIDS

Poster of the movie 'Bridesmaids' featuring women in pink dresses and a wedding dress against a brick wall, promoting an upcoming release in May 2011.

2011

PLOT

Annie Walker is a single woman in her mid-thirties, living in Milwaukee. Following the failure of her bakery due to the recession, her boyfriend leaves her, and she loses her savings. This forces her to take a job as a sales clerk in a jewelry store and share an apartment with an English immigrant roommate Gil and his sister Brynn. Her business failure was so painful, that she has given up baking entirely. Annie has a no-strings-attached sexual relationship with the self-absorbed Ted, but she hopes for something more from him. Her best friend, Lillian, is virtually her only source of happiness.

Lillian becomes engaged to her boyfriend Doug and asks Annie to be her maid of honor. At the engagement party, Annie meets Lillian's bridesmaids: cynical, worldly, long-married cousin Rita; naïve and idealistic newlywed friend from work Becca; the groom's decidedly unfiltered sister Megan; and Helen, the rich, beautiful, and elite wife of the groom's boss. Helen and Annie, who are jealous of each other's friendship with Lillian, take an instant dislike to each other, but Lillian persuades them to spend time together…

ACTORS

Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Chris O'Dowd, Rebel Wilson, Matt Lucas, Michael Hitchcock, Jon Hamm, and Jill Clayburgh.

Poster for the movie 'My Best Friend's Wedding' featuring a smiling woman holding two wedding cake toppers, with the title and cast names displayed.

1997

PLOT

Three weeks before her 28th birthday, New York City food critic Julianne “Jules” Potter receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael O'Neal, a Chicago sportswriter. Years ago, the two agreed that if unmarried by 28, they would marry each other. Michael tells her that in four days, he will marry Kimmy Wallace, a college student whose father owns the Chicago White Sox. Realizing she is in love with Michael, Jules resolves to sabotage his wedding. Arriving in Chicago, she reunites with Michael and meets Kimmy, who asks her to be the maid of honor. Jules schemes to break up the couple, but her attempt to humiliate Kimmy at a karaoke bar backfires. She manipulates Kimmy into asking her father to offer Michael a job, which Jules knows will anger Michael, but this fails as well.

Frustrated, Jules begs her friend George for help, and he flies to Chicago. On George’s advice, Jules prepares to confess her feelings to Michael, but instead tells him that she is engaged to George, hoping to make Michael jealous. George, who is gay, plays along but embarrasses Jules at lunch with the wedding party, singing “I Say a Little Prayer” as the whole restaurant joins in. George flies home, and Jules tells Michael that her “relationship” with George is over. Michael admits to feeling jealous and gives her the chance to confess her own feelings, but she lets the moment pass, and they share a dance as Michael sings “The Way You Look Tonight”.

ACTORS

Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett.

Father of the Bride movie poster featuring a bride kissing the cheek of a man in a tuxedo.

1991

PLOT

George Banks is the owner of a successful athletic shoe company called Side Kicks in San Marino, California. George narrates what he had to go through with his daughter's wedding. His 22-year-old daughter Annie, who just graduated from college, returns home from Europe and announces that she is engaged to Bryan MacKenzie, despite their only having known each other for three months. The sudden shock turns the warm reunion into a heated argument between George and Annie, but they quickly reconcile in time for Bryan to arrive and meet them. Despite Bryan's good financial status and likeable demeanor, George takes an immediate dislike to him while his wife, Nina, accepts him as a potential son-in-law. George does not want to let go of his daughter.

ACTORS

Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern, Martin Short, B. D. Wong, and Kieran Culkin.

Poster for the movie Moulin Rouge featuring cast members, a large logo with the film's title, and a couple embracing.

2001

PLOT

In 1900 Paris, a man named Christian, who is suffering from depression, begins writing ("Nature Boy"). One year earlier, he moves to the Montmartre district to join the Bohemian movement. Meeting a troupe of performers led by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Christian helps them finish their show, Spectacular Spectacular, to sell to Harold Zidler, owner of the Moulin Rouge. They arrive at the Moulin Rouge as Zidler and his "Diamond Dog Dancers" perform ("Zidler's Rap Medley/Can Can Dance"). Toulouse arranges for Christian to present the work to Satine, the star courtesan, unaware that Zidler has promised Satine to the Duke of Monroth, his potential investor ("Sparkling Diamonds").

Satine mistakes Christian for the Duke, and they dance before retiring to her chamber ("Rhythm of the Night", "Meet Me in the Red Room"), but she learns he is merely a writer ("Your Song"). The Duke interrupts, and Christian and Satine claim they were rehearsing Spectacular Spectacular. With the help of Zidler, Toulouse, and the troupe, they pitch the show to the Duke, improvising a plot about an evil maharajah attempting to woo an Indian courtesan who loves a poor sitar player ("The Pitch (Spectacular Spectacular)"). The Duke backs the show, on the condition that only he may court Satine. Satine contemplates Christian and her longing to become "a real actress" ("One Day I'll Fly Away"). Christian returns and he and Satine fall for each other ("Elephant Love Medley").

ACTORS

Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, John Leguizamo, Jacek Koman and Caroline O'Connor 

Poster of "When Harry Met Sally" featuring two characters smiling at each other, text "Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?" above them, and the film's title at the bottom with cityscape background.

1989

PLOT

In 1977, Harry Burns and Sally Albright graduate from the University of Chicago and share the drive to New York City, where Sally is beginning journalism school and Harry is starting a career. Harry is dating Sally's friend Amanda. During the drive, Harry and Sally discuss their differing ideas about relationships; Sally disagrees with Harry's assertion that men and women cannot be friends as "the sex part gets in the way". At a diner, Harry tells Sally she is attractive, and she angrily accuses him of making a pass at her. They part in New York on unfriendly terms.

Five years later, Harry and Sally find themselves on the same flight. Sally is dating Harry's neighbor Joe, and Harry is engaged to Helen, which surprises Sally. Harry suggests they become friends, forcing him to qualify his previous position about the impossibility of male-female friendships. They separate, concluding that they will not be friends.

Harry and Sally run into each other again in a bookstore six years later. They have coffee and talk about their previous relationships; Sally and Joe broke up because she wanted a family and he did not want to marry, and Harry's wife Helen left him for another man. They take a walk and become friends. They have late-night phone conversations, go to dinner, and spend time together, discussing their love lives.

ACTORS

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan

Movie poster for "Wedding Crashers" featuring two men in suits, set against a white background with text: "Life's a Party. Crash it." Release date: This Summer.

2005

PLOT

John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are Washington D.C. divorce mediators who crash weddings to meet and have sex with women. At the end of a season of successful crashes, Jeremy takes John to a wedding for the daughter of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, William Cleary. Once inside, the pair set their sights on Cleary's other daughters, Gloria and Claire. Jeremy ends up having sex with Gloria on a nearby beach during the reception. Gloria is possessive and quickly becomes obsessed with Jeremy, and Jeremy urges John to escape the reception with him. Meanwhile, John attempts to court Claire, the maid of honor, but is interrupted by her hotheaded boyfriend, Sack Lodge, who is unfaithful and disrespectful behind her back. When Gloria invites Jeremy and John to an extended weekend party at their family compound, John overrules Jeremy to accept and get closer to Claire.

ACTORS

Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper, and Jane Seymour.

Movie poster for "27 Dresses" featuring a woman in a wedding dress with flowers, text promoting the film, and cast names, including Katherine Heigl and James Marsden.

2008

PLOT

Jane Nichols (Katherine Heigl) has been a bridesmaid for 27 weddings. One night when she is attending two weddings almost simultaneously, she meets Kevin Doyle (James Marsden), who helps her get home but discusses with her his cynical views of marriage. He finds her day planner in the cab they shared. Meanwhile, Jane's sister Tess (Malin Åkerman) arrives from Europe and falls in love with Jane's boss George (Edward Burns) at first sight. Tess pretends to like the same things that George does to get him to like her. Despite being in love with George herself, Jane does not reveal the truth and her sister's courtship progresses rapidly. Soon the new couple announce that they intend to marry in three weeks and Jane becomes the wedding planner.
The reporter who agrees to post their wedding turns out to be Kevin, who writes wedding announcements under the name Malcolm Doyle. After looking at the contents of Jane's planner, he decides to use the contents as material for a piece on the "perpetual bridesmaid" and hopefully be promoted to writing investigative pieces about the real news.

ACTORS

 Katherine Heigl and James Marsden

Poster of the movie 'The Proposal' featuring a man in a suit and a woman holding a ring box.

2009

PLOT

Margaret Tate is a Canadian, who is executive editor-in-chief of a New York book publishing company. After learning she is about to be deported back to Canada because she violated the terms of her work visa, she persuades her assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her. She reminds Andrew that if she's deported, the work he put in as her assistant will be lost, and he'll be set back in his dream of becoming an editor. Mr. Gilbertson, a U.S. immigration agent, informs them that he suspects they are committing fraud to avoid Margaret's deportation. Gilbertson tells them that they'll be asked questions about each other separately. If their answers don't match, Margaret will be deported to Canada permanently and Andrew will be convicted of a felony punishable by a $250,000 fine and five years in prison. Andrew insists that Margaret make him an editor after their marriage and publish the book he's been recommending to her. Margaret agrees.

ACTORS

Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds , Betty White, Mary Steenburgen, and Craig T. Nelson

Poster for "Mamma Mia! The Movie" with six people posing playfully against a seaside backdrop under the title text.

1999

PLOT

On the Greek island of Kalokairi, 20-year-old bride-to-be Sophie Sheridan reveals to her bridesmaids, Ali and Lisa, that she has secretly invited three men to her wedding without telling her mother, Donna ("Honey, Honey"). They are the men that her mother's diary reveals having sex with during a 25-day period coincident with Sophie‘s conception. They are Irish-American architect Sam Carmichael, Swedish adventurer and writer Bill Anderson and British banker Harry Bright. She hopes that her father will walk her down the aisle at her big day, and believes that after she spends time with them she will know which is her father.

Donna, who owns a villa and runs it not very successfully as a hotel, hoping to find herself a wealthy man for a better life ("Money, Money, Money"), is ecstatic to reunite with her former Dynamos bandmates, wisecracking author Rosie Mulligan and wealthy multiple divorcée Tanya Chesham-Leigh, and reveals her bafflement at her daughter's desire to get married. Donna shows off the villa to Rosie and Tanya. The three men arrive and Sophie hides them in the old goat house. She doesn't reveal that she believes one of them is her father, but does explain that she and not her mother sent the invitations. She tells them to hide so Donna will be surprised by the old friends of whom she "so often" favorably speaks. They overhear Donna working and swear not to reveal Sophie's secret.

ACTORS

Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård, Meryl Streep and Julie Walters.

Poster for the movie 'Rachel Getting Married' featuring a close-up of a woman's face with wedding scene in the background.

2008

PLOT

Kym Buchman is temporarily discharged from drug rehab for a few days so that she can attend her older sister Rachel's wedding to Sidney Williams. Kym's history of drug abuse and alcohol-infused antics have more or less rendered her the black sheep of the family, and caused rifts between herself and others. Upon arriving to her paternal home, full of several close friends and family members bustling about and planning activities for the momentous occasion, Kym experiences several challenges reintegrating into the household. For instance, Kym's father, Paul, shows intense concern for her well-being, which Kym interprets as mistrust. Kym also resents Rachel's choice in designating her best friend as maid of honor, relegating her sister to possible bridesmaid due to doubt over whether Kym would have the faculty to make an appearance at all. Rachel, in turn, resents the attention her sister's drug addiction is drawing away from her wedding, which is exacerbated by Kym's behavior at the rehearsal dinner, when she, amid toasts from friends and family, forces an opportunity to offer a strangely blanket apology for her past actions, as part of her twelve-step program.

ACTORS

 Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Debra Winger

"The Notebook" movie poster featuring a couple embracing and kissing in the rain; includes cast names and title.

2004

PLOT

At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man, Duke, reads a romantic story from his notebook to a fellow patient.

In 1940, on Seabrook Island, South Carolina, poor lumber mill worker Noah Calhoun sees 17-year-old heiress Allison "Allie" Hamilton at a carnival, pursues her, and they have a summer romance. After weeks of dating, Noah takes Allie to an abandoned house that he intends to buy for them. They try to have sex for the first time but are interrupted by Noah's friend Fin with the news that Allie's parents have the police looking for her. Due to their difference in social class, Allie's parents were never fond of Noah, and were betting against the relationship from the beginning.

When Allie and Noah return to her parents' mansion, Allie's mother Anne ruthlessly insults Noah solely due to his social status and forbids her from seeing him. Noah walks out and Allie chases after him; an argument ensues, leading Allie to break up with Noah in the heat of the moment. The next morning, Anne announces that the family is returning home to Charleston that same day. Allie attempts to contact Noah, but is unable to find him, so she asks Fin to tell Noah that she loves him. When Noah receives the message he rushes to Allie's home, only to find the house gated up and empty.

ACTORS

Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams

Four women dressed stylishly against a backdrop with the text "Sex and the City" in large letters.

2008

PLOT

Carrie walks through the streets of New York City thinking about events that have happened to her and her friends. Charlotte is now happily married to Harry, but since they have trouble conceiving, they adopted a Chinese girl named Lily; Miranda has settled down in Brooklyn with Steve to raise their son Brady together; and Samantha has relocated her business to Los Angeles to be close to Smith, who is now a superstar, although she takes every opportunity to fly East to be with Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte.

Carrie herself is now in a relationship with Mr. Big, and they are viewing apartments with plans to move in together. Carrie falls in love with a penthouse far from their price range. Big offers to pay for it. Carrie offers to sell her own apartment, although she also fears that she would have no legal rights to their home in case they separate, as they are not married. To quell her fears, Big suggests that they marry. Charlotte and Miranda are happy at the news, but Samantha is concerned. Charlotte hires her longtime friend, Anthony Marantino, as the wedding planner.

ACTORS

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon

Poster for the movie 'I Give It a Year' featuring the main cast sitting on a red couch, with large title text above and film credits below.

2013

PLOT

CAmbitious high-flyer Nat and struggling writer Josh fall in love at first sight at a party. After seven months together they decide to marry. The film highlights their struggles during their first year of marriage, switching back and forth from flashbacks of the year's actions to a marriage guidance counselor's office. Their wedding goes as planned despite many friends' comments that the marriage will not last, an embarrassing best man's speech, and a coughing priest.

When Nat returns to work after the honeymoon, she's embarrassed when Josh calls her in the office, on speakerphone in front of her colleagues, to tell her she is sexy and that he misses her, causing her to abruptly hang up on him. Later, the two meet with their solicitor to discuss how to handle medical crises (last wishes). Nat becomes annoyed when Josh, knowing she would be late, admits that he deliberately told her the wrong time, causing her to turn up early.

ACTORS

 Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall, Anna Faris and Simon Bake

Poster for "Four Weddings and a Funeral" featuring cast in wedding attire, with a sheep in front. Title text and actor names at top.

1994

PLOT

At the wedding of Angus and Laura in Somerset, the unmarried best man Charles, his sister Scarlett; his friend Fiona and her brother Tom; Gareth, a gay man, and his Scottish lover Matthew; and Charles’s deaf-mute brother David endure the festivities. At the reception, Charles becomes smitten with Caroline (Carrie), a beautiful young American, and the two spend the night together. In the morning, Carrie jokingly demands that Charles propose to her, observing that they may have "missed a great opportunity", and then leaves for America.

Three months later, at the wedding of Bernard and Lydia, who became sexually involved at the previous wedding, Charles meets Carrie again, now accompanied by her new Scottish fiancé Sir Hamish. Charles faces further humiliation from several of his ex-girlfriends, including the distraught Henrietta, and retreats to an empty hotel suite; he watches Carrie and Hamish depart, and becomes trapped in a cupboard when the horny newlyweds stumble in to have sexual relations. Charles makes an awkward exit and is confronted by an angry Henrietta about his habit of “serial monogamy” and his fear of letting anyone get too close. Carrie reappears, and she and Charles spend another night together again.

A month later, Charles receives an invitation to Carrie's wedding. While shopping for a gift, he runs into Carrie and helps her select a wedding dress. She recounts her 33 sexual partners; Charles, who turns out to have been number 32, makes an awkward confession of his love to her, but to no avail.

ACTORS

Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, David Bower, Corin Redgrave, and Rowan Atkinson

"Dirty Dancing" movie poster featuring a couple embracing, with the title in purple script and tagline "Have the time of your life."

1987

PLOT

In the summer of 1963, 18-year-old Frances Houseman, nicknamed Baby, is vacationing with her parents, Dr. Jake and Marjorie Houseman, and her older sister Lisa, at Kellerman's, an upscale Catskills resort whose owner Max is a friend of Jake's. Exploring one night, Baby secretly observes Max instructing the waiters, all Ivy League students, to romance the guests' daughters, no matter how unattractive. She also sees Max demeaning the working-class entertainment staff, including 25-year-old Johnny Castle, one of the resort's dance instructors. Baby is attracted to Johnny, and dances briefly with him when his cousin, Billy, takes her to one of the staff's secret “dirty” dancing parties.

Baby learns Johnny's dance partner Penny is pregnant by Robbie, a waiter and womanizer who attends Yale School of Medicine and who now has his eye on Lisa. When Robbie refuses to help Penny, Baby, without giving a reason, borrows money from her father Jake to pay for Penny's abortion. At first, Penny declines as it would cause her and Johnny to miss a performance at another nearby resort, costing them the season's salary, but Baby volunteers to stand in for Penny. During her dance sessions with Johnny, they develop a mutual attraction, and except for their failure to execute a climactic lift, Johnny and Baby's performance is successful.

ACTORS

 Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze

Poster of "Bride Wars" featuring two women in bridal gowns facing each other, holding a broken cake knife. Text reads: "Even best friends can't share the same wedding day." Names "Kate Hudson" and "Anne Hathaway" appear at the top.

2009

PLOT

Emma Allan and Olivia "Liv" Lerner are best friends who have planned every detail of their weddings, since first witnessing a wedding 20 years ago at the Plaza Hotel. They both have made it a priority to be married in the same location in June. While hanging out at Liv's place in the present day they find a Tiffany box hidden in the closet. Both friends are excited knowing that Liv will soon get a proposal from her boyfriend. That same night Emma's boyfriend proposes to her. Liv gets restless waiting for her boyfriend to pop the question and eventually confronts him. He replies he was planning on doing it that night but then asks her on the spot. Both girls start planning and are expected to be each other's maid of honor. They schedule a meeting with New York's most famous wedding planner, Marion St. Claire, who tells them there are three spots open in the plaza. Two on the same day and one a few weeks later. They each chose a different day but due to a clerical error, they are scheduled to have a wedding on the same day, June 6 (three and a half months later).

ACTORS

 Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, and Candice Bergen