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Brides-to-be take note! What better way to calm those pre-wedding day nerves but with a few good wedding movies? If you're feeling those butterflies already, put the popcorn on and call your friends over for a great night with the small screen. It might just be the last pyjama party you'll ever have as an unmarried woman!
Here are some of the finest wedding movies available to rent at a video store near you.

The Princess Bride (1987) When the radiant Buttercup and her sweetheart Westley are torn apart by evil kidnappers, the lovesick Westley has to disguise himself as a fearful pirate to win her back. Encountering all sorts of swashbuckling adventures along the way, he eventually saves her from marrying the Prince Humperdink and they are re-united. This is the classic comic tale of true love conquering evil and a wonderful parody of every childhood fairy story imaginable.

Muriel's Wedding (1994) An offbeat and humorous story of a small-town girl's obsession with getting married, this movie is a definite must. Finding life in Porpoise Spit, Australia very uninspiring, Muriel tries to escape by listening to Abba music and getting in with the "in-crowd". Liberation comes when she steals money to follow her bullying schoolmates on holiday and meets an inspiring new companion.

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) This is a very endearing romantic comedy, with Julia Roberts as the scheming "best friend" in question. The action unfolds as she is asked to come meet the fiancée of her old boyfriend a few weeks before they are scheduled to marry. But when she meets "Kimmy" (played by Cameron Diaz), she suddenly realises that she is in still in love with her best friend, Michael, and decides she will do anything to win him back.

Runaway Bride (1999) After their on-screen chemistry in "Pretty Woman", another Julia Roberts and Richard Gere movie like this one was just waiting to be made. This time Roberts plays Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always leaves her grooms stranded at the altar, while Gere plays the unlikely reporter who is following her for the purposes of a good story.

The Wedding Singer (1998) If the idea of a movie set in the eighties doesn't frighten you too much, get The Wedding Singer for a good giggle. Robby lives in his sister's basement and is a singer at a reception hall. After being stood up once at the altar, he finds friendship with soon-to-be married waitress, Julia (Drew Barrymore) and starts to fall for her. Invited to help organise the wedding, he begins to realise her jock boyfriend doesn't deserve her.

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) The film that catapulted Hugh Grant to stardom, this wedding movie is certainly one not to miss. Centred on the loves and lucks of Charlie (played by Grant) and his group of twenty?something friends, who race from one wedding reception to the next, the pace of this film is exhausting. When Charlie eventually falls in love with Carrie, an American beauty (played by Andy McDowell) only to see her marry someone else, the true comedy of errors begins.

Father of the Bride (1950) "I would like to say a few words about weddings. I've just been through one", says the father of the bride (Spencer Tracy) as this movie opens. He is sitting dishevelled in a chair amidst a sea of confetti, wine bottles and streamers. The scene is then set for the story of his daughter's wedding preparations. Watch this slightly old-fashioned 1950s classic (with Elizabeth Taylor as the blushing young bride) and then, for fun, rent the 1992 remake.

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) Three New York beauties, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, team up with a plan - to find themselves rich men and get married. Setting themselves up in an uptown apartment, the movie follows their escapades to snare themselves premium husbands. The trouble is that the rich ones are never what they seem and, in true Hollywood style, they keep on falling for the poor ones.

Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) Best known for the comic roles played by eloping couple, Nicholas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker, as well as its truckload of Elvis impersonators, this movie is great fun. The couple go to Las Vegas to tie the knot, but the plan changes when the bride is lost in a poker game. This is a roller coaster of a film from start to finish.