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Wedding Planning


| Movie WEDDINGS 2011
Movie & TV Weddings


updated November 18, 2011
by Joyce Barslow


Opened November 18, 2011
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1
The wedding scenes set the tone of the film especially when Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) walks down the aisle in the garden setting, with flowers hanging down from above to keep it dark, left, to marry vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) in a gown designed by Carolina Herrera.

Herrera worked on the dress for six months going back and forth. She didn't have to research too much to come up with the right look as she got the inspiration from the book and descriptions from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. She consideration the whole story—which was this innocent girl with the first true love of her life. Therefore, the dress had to be magical.

Two bridal images are in author Stephenie Meyer’s new book, The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, which goes on sale April 12 featuring Bella as a vampire and Bella in her wedding dress.
Season 7 Premiered Fri., October 7 (9pm ET/PT)
TLC'S "Say Yes to the Dress"
The new season opens up with Kelly Ripa (Live! with Regis & Kelly) as she tries her hand at being a bridal consultant for a day at Kleinfeld Bridal, pictured left with bride-to-be Camora Robertson. With the help of consultants, she soon realizes it's not as easy as it seems.

Also featured during the season is a bride who purchases two dresses totaling close to $50,000, and brides who choose to go the unconventional route with blush colored dresses, short dresses, turtleneck dresses, silver runway dresses, and flowery gold sheath dresses.

On Friday, October 14 at 10pm ET/PT, TLC will air Say Yes to the Dress: The Big Day. Throughout the one-hour special, cameras follow Kelly Miller - a plus-size bride who first appeared in an episode of Say Yes to the Dress: Big Bliss - as she plans her big day. Kelly made a lasting impression with her big personality and confidence and once she found her perfect dress, viewers are will find out what happened next. Photo: TLC
The Perfect Storm
August 13 & 20, 2011
Mothers and Daughters battling for control
Sooner or later wedding TV producers had to figure out that there could be some mother/daughter perfect storms. In the show, Momster of the Bride, cameras capture dramatic moments as real life brides collide with their overbearing mothers in the planning of their weddings. The all-new two-part event follow future wives and their domineering moms as they battle each other for control  of the big day.

In the premiere segment a daughter’s dream wedding is being threatened by her bossy mother’s insistence on continuing family traditions as her mother demands that she wear her grandmother’s antiquated wedding dress – the same dress she was forced to wear on her own wedding day. And that is just the beginning of things to get worse!

Momster of the Bride (The Style Network, part-one Sat., August 13, 9pm & 9:30pm ET/PT; part two on Sat., August 20, 9pm & 9:30pm). Visit Mystyle.com
May 30, 2011 announcement
Over the top cake competition
Three different Canadian cake designers will race against the clock to create one couple’s dream wedding cake in a new competition series, Cake Walk: Wedding Cake Edition, hosted by Canadian comedian / actress Caroline Rhea, this fall (Slice). The competition has a $5,000 prize and the chance to have the winner’s work showcased on the couple’s big day.
May 2011 film one of the hits of the season

Bridesmaids - for better or worse
Saturday Night Live (SNL) performer Kristen Wiig, has her first lead role in a feature film, and she is making the wedding comedy “Bridesmaids,” a hit. Wiig also co-produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay (with Annie Mumolo) and cast herself in the lead (good choice). The R-rated movie is expected to give “Hangover Part II” a run for the box office.

Wiig plays Annie, an aspiring pastry chef from Milwaukee who has fallen on hard times. She’s broke, she’s in her late 30s and she’s still single. At least she still has her long-time best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph), who just asked her to be one of her bridesmaids. But what should have been a wonderful occasion turns into a disaster, especially when Annie finds herself competing with a wealthy rival named Helen (Rose Byrne) for the role of maid of honour.

The fun stuff starts when the bridesmaids accompany the bride-to-be to a posh salon to try on wedding dresses. Things don’t go quite as planned when the ladies come down with a severe case of food poisoning, which is soon followed by an ill-fated bachelorette party to Las Vegas that’s aborted when Annie gets drunk and looses her cool on the plane. The movie does have a happy wedding ending - Annie gets to walk down the aisle herself with a state trooper (Chris Dowd) she meets along the way.

Fun stuff for effect - but remember the film when choosing your wedding party.
Jumping the Broom
Starting fresh on the other side
The wedding comedy is about two families from very different backgrounds and income groups who attend a wedding on Martha Vineyard (an upscale island south of New York City).

The film stars Paula Patton and Laz Alonso, left, as the couple getting married in the film. Angela Bassett plays the mother who is not pleased with her daughter's choice, and Loretta Devine is the groom-to-be's mother who wants the couple to jump over a broom - that symbolizes leaving behind what came before their wedding and starting fresh on the other side. This practice dates back at least to the 19th century and has enjoyed a 20th century revival.

Good idea.
Something Borrowed
The title tells it all
Looks like just because the film uses a wedding scene to show how people mistreat each other that it was a good idea to release it during 'bridal season'.

The film stars popular Kate Hudson as a party-girl named Darcy, who has stolen away an infatuated law-school classmate, Dex (Colin Egglesfield), from her best friend from childhood Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin). On the eve of Darcy and Dex's wedding the groom-to-be and the best friend (Rachel) sleep together again, setting the plot 'something borrowed' in play.

Every weekend the characters in the film head for the Hamptons - think they should of stayed there.
Photo: Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin
The original Father of the Bride movie featured on Weddings & Honeymoons magazine cover

Father of the Bride (1950)
The late Elizabeth Taylor first box office success in an adult role came as Kay Banks, the bride, in the romantic comedy Father of the Bride, alongside Spencer Tracy, father of the bride, and Joan Bennett, mother of the bride. The American film tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that she's engaged until the wedding actually occurs. The movie stars Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor (as her fiancé), Billie Burke, and Leo G. Carroll, The screenplay was adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from the novel by Edward Streeter, and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Weddings & Honeymoons cover
Weddings & Honeymoons Holiday 2002 / Winter 2003 issue, pictured, featured Elizabeth Taylor on its cover. She graced more than 25 covers of People, and seven of Life's 14 covers of that ran during the 1960s, when she was divorcing Eddie Fisher, marrying Richard Burton (twice) and making the world go wild over Cleopatra (1963).

Hollywood Gets Married
by Sandy Schreier
Cover photo: Elizabeth Taylor from Father of the Bride
The movie wedding, Father of the Bride, is often matched up in the book with the star’s real-life weddings and includes trivia about the wedding or the wedding guests.

Schreier gives pages to the book’s cover girl Elizabeth Taylor who has been married in the movies a few times, however eight times off-screen (seven husbands, she married Richard Burton twice). It’s interesting to watch the different styles of dress she chose for her weddings from the first at 18-years-old to Nicky Hilton to the last to Larry Fortensky.

What Liz wore on her wedding days
The marriage to Hilton in 1950 coincided with the release of Father of the Bride. Designer Helen Rose created her gown for both the movie and her wedding, which was her wedding gift from MGM. Her real wedding gown was a creation of white satin embroidered with bead and seed pearls and took two months to complete. She wore a tiara and ten yards of veiling.

Liz Taylor married husband No. 2, British actor Michael Wilding in 1952 wearing a gray wool suite with a rolled collar and cuffs of white organdy by Helen Rose.  

For her third wedding in 1957, Liz married Mike Todd in Acapulco at the villa of former Mexican president Miguel Alemán, in a deep blue cocktail dress designer by Helen Rose.  

For her fourth wedding in 1959 to singer Eddie Fisher in Las Vegas’s Temple Beth Shalom she wore a Jean Louis green chiffon dress with a softly draped hood.

At her fifth wedding in 1964 to Richard Burton in a suite at the Ritz Carlton in Montreal, she wore an Irene Sharaff design of a replica of the yellow gown she wore in the first scene of Cleopatra, where she and Burton met. She wore white hyacinths in her hair. For her sixth wedding to Burton, October 1975 in Botswana, on the edge of a riverbank, she wore a long green robe embroidered with exotic birds. Burton was in white slacks and a red turtleneck.

In 1976, she married US Senator John Warner on top of Engagement Hill at the senator’s farm. She wore a dress of lavender gray, with gray suede boots and a coat of silver fox. She had on a matching turban and carried a bouquet of heather.

Her eighth and last wedding, was in 1990 when she married Larry Fortensky at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.  She wore a $25,000 lemon yellow wedding gown, a gift from designer Valentino. Jackson paid for the $1.5 million wedding.

Gowns, gowns, gowns and more gowns!
If you’re looking for a gown, dress or suit to get married in or planning a theme wedding, take a look at the range of styles famous costumer designers such as Helen Rose, Edith Head, and Irene Sharaff created over the years for stars to wear in all films and for their real-life weddings, in the book Hollywood Gets Married.  

The headpieces with the outfits will give you a range of ideas from flowers, fabric, hair-dos, to all types of tiaras. The creations date back to before talking pictures and include the real royal wedding of actress Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco, whose gown was designed by Helen Rose, to Rita Hayworth’s cocktail dress by Jacques Fath when she married Aly Khan in 1949, to outrageous showgirl bridal G-string worn by Sarah Jessica Parker by designer Julie Weiss, in the movie Honeymoon in Las Vegas, not to mention Nicholas Cage in his Elvis jumpsuit.

Author Sandy Schreier is a fashion historian and the owner of the largest private collection of twentieth-century couture. She has curated exhibitions of costume history at museums worldwide. Hollywood Gets Married by Sandy Schreier (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, Random worldwide).

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