Wedding Logistics
This is the month in which couples most often get married.
October
This time-jumping musical features a young woman speed-running a 1970s gap year collecting potential fathers while her grieving daughter throws a grand opening for a hotel.
Mama Mia
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
tradition
An Orwellian nightmare about a group of sentient, smiling machines who live in constant terror of an autocratic British dictator who will brick them alive in a dark tunnel if they are not 'really useful.'
Thomas the Tank Engine
In the 1840's, Queen Victoria standardized this wedding tradition.
The white dress
Before the 1840's brides simply wore their best dress, regardless of color.
The average American wedding planning period is at least this long.
1 year
This culinary horror story is about two deeply unhinged parents who split up identical twins at birth, hide their existence from them, and then act shocked when the girls use peanut butter and psychological warfare to switch lives.
The Parent Trap
Rain on your wedding day
old wives tale
(a wet knot is harder to untie)
This long-running psychological thriller features four upper-class teenagers and a talking dog who drive a hippie van around the country to expose the real estate fraud industry.
Scooby Doo
This is the real purpose for Bridesmaids.
Human shields
In ancient Roman times, weddings required a witness to be legally binding, the bridesmaids and groomsmen dressed exactly like the bride and groom, the visual trick was meant to confuse evil spirits and bitter exes.
This is often consider the most expensive part of the wedding.
The venue
In this film, a country's entire legislative branch decides a woman cannot govern unless she acquires a husband within 30 days, sparking high stakes competition between an adorable British man and Chris Pine.
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Seeing the bride before the ceremony.
tradition
(dating back to the days of arranged marriages, some feared that the groom may change his mind and run away)
This show features an underwater musical daycare simulation where a classroom of six human-fish hybrids learn basic math and hygiene while trapped in a brightly colored adyss.
Bubble Guppies
This role of the best man dates back to the Germanic Goths.
What is bride stealing?
Men would regularly kidnap women from neighboring villages to force them into marriage. The groom brought a long his strongest warrior friend to stand guard and fight of the brides angry family during the ceremony.
This is the most common engagement ring style.
Round cut solitaire stone on a yellow gold band
A cultural hostage situation where a woman's entire extended family invades her life, her wardrobe, and her romantic choices because she dared to date a man who doesn't roast whole lambs in the front yard.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Carrying the bride over the threshold
tradition
(dates back to ancient Roman and European beliefs to protect the bride from evil spirits)
This high stakes construction drama about a man and his talking heavy machinery who operate a monopoly on a town's infrastructure while battling a chaotic, legally unsupervised scarecrow.
Bob the Builder
Instead of the bride and groom sharing wedding cake, the Ancient Romans did this.
What is breaking the loaf over the bride's head?
Guests would scatter and eat the crumbs, which evolved into today's tiered cakes.
The average American wedding costs this much.
$35,000
An elite-level exercise in British procrastination where a chronically late man spends several years bumping into the same American woman at expensive parties, only to realize he should probably stop going to church.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Tying tin cans to the bumper of the car
tradition
(Although it may originate with the belief that the noise would scare away evil spirits)
This elite toddler-operatic thriller about four musical prodigies who pilot a shape-shifting aircraft to defeat an antagonistic airplane that hates classical music.
Little Einsteins
The bachelor party originated in the 5th century BC with this warrior culture.
What is Sparta?
(Soldiers would gather together the night before a friend's wedding to drink, feast, and toast to his past freedom. After his wedding he would begin a domestic life)