Everyone loves a wedding... film.

I saw Bridesmaids on Sunday. It is one of the funniest films I have ever seen and very relate-able. As my mum said in life there are always Helen's. If you have seen the film you will know what I mean and you will nod your head in agreement.

It is so funny, there are bits I keep thinking about and I can't help laughing. It isn't too girly I think you could go with your boyfriend and he would enjoy it. It has been dubbed the female Hangover, I do love The Hangover but you laugh at it because you think stupid men, but with Bridesmaids you think 'Oh My God, that is so true' or 'Oh My God that reminds me of that time...'

If you are going expecting Bride Wars or  27 Dresses, you will be mistaken, it is not candy floss it is dark chocolate with yummy bits of caramel to sweeten the deal.

A brilliant girly film and I have a bit of a girl crush now on Kristen Wiig, she has tremendous comic timing and I am surprised at how many films she has been in that I have seen. She is the film producer in Knocked Up, she's Ruth in Paul, and she is in Adventureland, Date Night, she nearly kills Ricky Gervais in Ghost Town and she is in Semi-Pro and Whip it. Amazing comic actress.

Anyway I am going back to my original reason for posting was to talk about wedding movies, although I notice I have a bit of a theme with weddings but then two of my friends did get married in the last year.

Anyway, everyone does love a wedding film right?

Well not quite, everyone likes the classic Four Weddings and a Funeral. But recently there has been an influx of wedding movies we have Wedding Date (not great), Made of Honour (not seen yet), 27 Dresses (great film but a little fluffy) and  Bride Wars (good film but again shows the outrageous craziness of females and the fluffiness of friends).

I think that is my problem with some wedding films, ok we have all heard of Bridezillas but why do films turn women in to paranoid, crazy  monsters when it comes to friends. It turns friends against each other for wanting the best wedding or jealous because friends are getting married. This is not always the case! Yes some people turn into crazy people, but some women just enjoy it.

That is one of the things I liked about Bridesmaids Annie was happy for her friend being engaged but her main problem was worry about losing her friend and things changing not the fact her friend was getting married and her still single and alone.

I do love a good wedding film but I love Bridesmaids it is just refreshing to see a more realistic view of weddings and female friendships.

A nice day for a white wedding...

Your wedding day is meant to be the best day of your life. The day where you show the world that you are committed to this person forever and that until death do you part you will be by each other’s side. For women it is the chance to wear a princess style dress and feel a little superior over your single friends (you may deny it but you know there is an element of gloating to it), and blokes you get to show off the most beautiful woman in the room and get blind drunk without any repercussions as most of the people there will be drunk.

However, the politics of weddings goes applies to everything, from the bridesmaid dresses to the cake. I recently was introduced to the world of weddings, a close friend is getting married and so it seems are all the people she knows. I just thought you planned your dream wedding and hoped people turned up and didn’t get too drunk. I thought the most stressful thing was making sure you didn’t put on or lose too much weight between dress fittings, or hope none of your bridesmaids gets pregnant.

One evening the discussion got on to the amount of weddings over the up and coming months and the decision took an interesting turn. I found out that if weddings are weeks apart you have to make sure that any hymns you have are a different order or completely different from the two weddings before, especially if the weddings have the same guests. Menus, first songs, and bridesmaid dresses cannot be the same style, or colour. It’s just a logistical nightmare, no wonder many women turn into Bridezilla and many men reconsider the person they are marrying.

I knew how difficult it must be to organise a wedding, however, I just didn’t realise you had to plan and arrange everyone else’s weddings. It seems you can’t have your own perfect wedding you have to make sure you don’t plan someone else’s. Especially if the weddings are close together and have the same people attending, who wants their wedding compared as if it is on Livings ‘Four Weddings’ programme? Who knew organising a wedding had as many politics as a general election, I knew there was the code that none of the guests should wear white (unless there is a theme) and no one, absolutely no one should try and up stage the bride in any way shape or form.

My idealistic nature says that when I get married I just want me and my fiancée, our family and some close friends, nothing big and showy for the ceremony and maybe a big party for everyone after. On the other hand the 5 year old wannabe Princess wants the lot; let’s just hope no one else I know is getting married at the same time as me because you never know there could be a Bride Wars 2 in the making.