21 Least Romantic Wedding Movies

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The Wedding Ringer, 2014

Nuptial ceremonies are all about two people celebrating their love in front of their closest friends and family. Well, unless they're about a groom (Josh Gad) realizing he doesn't have any friends, and hiring a professional con artist to help him fake a wedding party. That's the premise of Kevin Hart's latest, which almost certainly had a title before it had a plot. Ain't love grand? —Hillary Busis

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Wedding Crashers, 2005

Perhaps the most loving relationship in this David Dobkin comedy is the one between best friends and wedding-crashing associates (and divorce mediators) Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson). They have (until now) had undying devotion to each other—''Never leave a fellow crasher behind'' is their number one rule—but women? Not so much. That is, until the Cleary wedding, where despite some serious hurdles, both manage to find romance. But let's remember that one of these women is dating someone else, and the other is an insane sex maniac. Not to mention that decidedly un-romantic opening montage of Jeremy and John bedding a cornucopia of different women, all set to the classic wedding tune ''Shout.'' —Emily Blake

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The Wedding Date, 2005

There's nothing romantic about hiring a male escort (Dermot Mulroney) to pose as your date for your sister's wedding. Sure, there may be a little romance involved when you fall in love with said escort and your life turns into a reversed Pretty Woman remake, but let's not forget that this movie also involves a twist: star Debra Messing eventually finds out that, back in the day, she unknowingly shared her fiancé with her soon-to-be-wedded sibling (Amy Adams). How's that for romance? —Samantha Highfill

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My Best Friend's Wedding, 1997

Weddings are usually complicated—but when you have a maid of honor (Julia Roberts) who's secretly trying to steal the groom (Dermot Mulroney), the ceremony takes a hit. Particularly when the Maid of Honor kisses the groom... in front of the bride (Cameron Diaz). Add in a fight in a public restroom, and you've got the perfect formula for whatever the opposite of romance might be. —Samantha Highfill

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Bride Wars, 2009

Best friends Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Liv (Kate Hudson) get engaged the same year, which sounds like it could be a lot of fun—but instead turns into an all-out battle. The two continually sabotage each other in a war that ends with Liv screening a video of Emma going wild during spring break—as Emma walks down the aisle. The brides-to-be end up physically brawling right then and there, both clad in their white gowns. By the end of it, only one of them is still a bride-to-be... but they do come to be friends again. Silver lining? —Ariana Bacle

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American Wedding, 2003

If the circumstances of a couple's pre-engagement relationship forecast what'll happen at their wedding, it should be no surprise that the union of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) is surrounded by humiliation, obnoxious gross-out humor, and sundry additional unpleasantness. Oh, and uncomfortable gay-panic jokes (Stiffler goes in search of dress designer Leslie Sommers, who's actually? a man! At a gay bar!). The topper: A wedding cake covered in pubes. —Hillary Busis

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The Hangover, 2009

Four pals head to Las Vegas for a raucous bachelor party, only to lose the groom (Justin Bartha) after a night of strippers, tigers, and a run-in with a man named Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong). From the groom's bright orange skin (surprise: he's been left to bake on a rooftop all day) to the wedding singer belting the filthy lyrics to 'Candy Shop' at the reception, the wedding itself ends up being every bride's nightmare. To top it all off, Bartha's new wife (Sasha Barrese) still doesn't learn the details of what actually happened in Vegas. May she never, ever find out. —Megan Daley

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Bridesmaids, 2011

Lillian (Maya Rudolph) hides from her own wedding, partly because she's overwhelmed by Helen's (Rose Byrne) crazy planning and partly because she's afraid of leaving her home in Wisconsin. Everything eventually gets worked out, but the lead-up to the big day is full of nightmarish situations—including that one time Lillian pooped in the street, and the other time she got in a fight that almost ended her friendship with BFF Annie (Kristen Wiig). —Ariana Bacle

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Rachel Getting Married, 2008

Want your special day to be truly special? Maybe don't invite recovering drug addict Kym (Anne Hathaway), a brittle, self-centered screwup who can't help pathologically stealing the spotlight on the days leading up to her poor sister's (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding—and, oh yeah, who's never really taken responsibility for causing a tragic accident that tore apart her family years before. Good movie (Hathaway was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar); crappy wedding. —Hillary Busis

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The Graduate, 1967

There are grand romantic gestures, and then there's yelling ''ELAAAINEEEE!'' at the wedding of the woman you love... who just happens to be the daughter of the married woman with whom you had an affair (Anne Bancroft). The grand finale of Mike Nichols's classic features a wedding out of a Bosch painting, wherein hero Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) is fending off guests with a cross to escape with Elaine (Katharine Ross). Its grand finale, too, is pretty damn unromantic: Ben and Elaine, riding a bus together, their giddiness slowly fading as they realize the gravity of what they've just done. —Esther Zuckerman

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Melancholia, 2011

You get what you pay for when you go to see a Lars von Trier production, and Melancholia doesn't disappoint. There's no chaos reigns fox, but there is a malaise-filled wedding reception that ends with the bride (Kirsten Dunst) cheating on the groom (Alexander Skarsgard), who soon abandons his new wife. Oh, and then the world literally ends. What's Danish for ''sad trombone''? —Hillary Busis

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Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?Part 1, 2011

Some people get married out of love. Some people get married out of necessity. And if your name is Bella (Kristen Stewart), you get married so that your hunky vampire boyfriend, Edward (Robert Pattinson), will finally do two things: 1) sleep with you and 2) turn you into a vampire. After all, nothing says ''romance'' like using a wedding to force your man to do things he's not comfortable with, right? And that's not even counting the part when Edward literally chews Bella's baby out of her uterus. —Samantha Highfill

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What Happens in Vegas, 2008

Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star in this rom com about two strangers who drunkenly get married in Las Vegas, then somehow win $3 million at the slot machines. Money doesn't exactly have a history of bringing people together—and neither of these two is a charmer, with Kutcher's character getting back at Diaz's by peeing in a sink while she just throws things at him the entire movie. They might have needed a more dedicated marriage counselor than Queen Latifah. —Megan Daley

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Bachelorette, 2012

Leslye Headland's movie, based on her own play, shows what happens when the bitter, horrible girls who talked about you behind your back in high school end up being your bridesmaids. They will ruin your wedding dress; they will get coked up; one of them will OD. It will not be pretty. (Why oh why did perfectly nice Rebel Wilson ask these horrible jerks to be in her wedding party? The world may never know.) —Esther Zuckerman

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Muriel's Wedding, 1994

All poor misfit Muriel (Toni Collette) wants is love, a beautiful wedding, and maybe an ABBA reunion at the reception. What she gets instead in P.J. Hogan's culty classic is a whole lotta heartache, even after she leaves her hometown (the evocatively named Porpoise Spit) for Sydney and finds a greencard-seeking swimmer to marry. Spoilers: Her mom kills herself, her dad's an asshole, her marriage is a sham, and she ends up exactly where she started. In other words, it won't exactly make you want to toss rice in the air. —Hillary Busis

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The Bachelor, 1999

Three years before Chris Harrison first dangled an empty-eyed cipher before a group of desperate singles, Chris O'Donnell starred in this misfire as a shallow dude who abruptly learns that he'll loose a hefty inheritance if he isn't married by the evening of his 30th birthday. Which, yes, happens to be the day after he first learns this information. Clearly a swoonworthy setup...at least, if you're a cynic or a crazy person. The movie of course ends with O'Donnell reuniting with his true love (Renee Zellweger), but what precedes that conclusion is sour enough to ruin any redemptive notes. —Hillary Busis

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Monster-In-Law, 2005

It's not a wedding unless an in-law tries to poison you, right? No matter how crazy your mother-in-law may seem, Monster-in-Law proves things could always be worse. After losing her news anchor position to a younger woman, Jane Fonda's Viola Fields has an all-out meltdown and devotes her pent-up energy to trying to break up her son Kevin (Michael Vartan) and his fiancee, Charlie (Jennifer Lopez). It ends well, but not before Viola shows up in white on the big day and drives Charlie to call the whole thing off. —Emily Blake

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License to Wed, 2007

If newly engaged Ben (John Krasinski) and Sadie (Mandy Moore) want to marry in Sadie's family church, they'll have to tie the knot in three weeks—and they'll have to go through Reverend Frank (Robin Williams). The Reverend's offbeat marriage prep course is designed to push them to their limits, because nothing says romantic comedy like a priest bugging a couple's bedroom to make sure they're not sleeping together. Ben and Sadie might come out stronger, but it's not a great sell for weddings. Also, they probably don't come out stronger. —Kelly Connolly

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Very Bad Things, 1998

Think of the leadup to Kyle (Jon Favreau) and Laura's (Cameron Diaz) nuptials as the black comedy equivalent of the Red Wedding. First, groomsman Michael (Jeremy Piven) accidentally murders a prostitute (Kobe Tai); then groomsman Boyd (Christian Slater) murders a security guard who spots the body; then the nicest groomsman (Daniel Stern) is run over by his brother; then his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) is murdered... and on and on. The most unbelievable part of all: Even after all this, the wedding itself still happens. It is not very romantic. —Hillary Busis

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, 2007

This pre-Marriage Equality Act embarrassment casts Adam Sandler (he's Chuck) and Kevin James (he's Larry) as a pair of firefighters who decide to get hitched so that they can take full advantage of Larry's life insurance policy. (See, it's funny cuz they're not gay!) What's more depressing: the fact that this movie got made in the first place, or the fact that it ended up grossing over $100 million domestically? —Hillary Busis

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Margot at the Wedding, 2007

No one should expect Noah Baumbach to deliver a feel-good wedding rom-com, and he most definitely didn't with Margot at the Wedding. It follows Nicole Kidman's Margot, a novelist who disapproves of her sister Pauline's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) choice in a fiance, Jack Black's artist Malcolm. And that's not the only relationship seething with tension. Sure, these characters love one another deep, deep down—but this wedding weekend is one that's filled with mayhem, infidelity, and both emotional and physical violence. —Emily Blake