Monday Movie Meme - A Toast to the Couple

We covered the most memorable marriage proposals on screen and then followed it up with couples rushing to the altar. It’s only fitting that we take it to the dance floor in the theme for this week’s Monday Movie Meme: A Toast to the Couple. Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring your most memorable wedding receptions.

Here are my selections for this week’s A Toast to the Couple theme.

The Other Sister

Aside from having one of the most groovy groomsmen ever in a movie (tell me those sunglasses didn’t help to turn things up a notch), this romantic comedy also had a heated mother-daughter confrontation during an otherwise happy wedding reception.

Like it or not (for the record, I think this movie is rather cute), “The Other Sister” is one of those movies where many unexpected and awkward events are taking place – for better or worse. You be the judge of that. To this day, I still can’t call it.

The Wedding Singer

Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler – hello?! Let this movie be a lesson that the band and/or performers you choose can either make or break the mood of your wedding reception – especially if they bring their personal issues to work with them. Enter “Love Stinks” for the party, please. I don’t know which couple had it worse – the ones who were led into a slight depression by Boy George or the newlyweds whose family received threats and insults by Adam Sandler’s character. Either way, they had the kind of receptions that guests surely wouldn’t forget.

The Best Man

One lady hogs the bouquet while a groomsman proposes to his girlfriend at a wedding reception in this romantic comedy starring Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut and Nia Long. Still, it wouldn’t be a party without the electric slide!

What unforgettable wedding receptions have YOU seen in a movie?

Sunday Synopsis - The Gift from Steve Jobs and an Actor's Call of Duty

Earlier this month, I imposed a challenge on myself to create 30 videos in 30 days, leading up to the World Premiere of "ABYSS: The Greatest Proposal Ever" (or TGPE, as I will be referring to it as from time to time). These videos are part of my YouTube webseries "30 Days - The Making of ABYSS: The Greatest Proposal Ever" -- a collection of mini documentaries chronicling the making of the project, with many behind-the-scenes images, interviews and footage clips not shown until now.

The point of it all is to help build more buzz for the January 15th screening and also re-launch my YouTube channel since I've neglected it for a long time. 

After starting this challenge, however, I soon realized that some major techinical limitations would make it very difficult to produce them on a daily basis. Now, I'm planning to make and post them in batches, to figure out if that can help make the process less stressful and the web series project more likely to be completed. While the first episode serves as a quasi-trailer, here are the second and fourth episodes about how Steve Jobs simplified our workdays as well as why actor Rodney Benson answered to the call of duty for participating in this movie. 

Episode 2 - The Gift from Steve Jobs, or What the iPad 2 Taught Cast & Crew about Multitasking:

Episode 4 - Why actor Rodney Benson took on the Call of Duty

Boy, it seems like year flew by so fast. Tell me this...

What are YOUR plans for New Year's?

*Those of you who are on Twitter -- if you feel like sharing this post or the links to these videos or commenting on them via a tweet, please use the hashtags: #TGPE #30DAYS #ABYSSMOVIE #GreatestProposalEver 

Monday Movie Meme – Race to the Altar

*Disclaimer: The Monday Movie Meme for last week was all set to go until my blog hosting company went down and spent hours dealing with an attack on their servers or whatever. Here’s hoping all is well on their end, going forward.

Did a whole week just go by?! Holy moly, time flies by too fast. The theme for this week’s Monday Movie Meme can be considered the next step to the Rules of Engagement that we covered a while back.

Call it “Part 2” to an ongoing series of themes, if you will...

First comes the proposal, then wedding bells start ringing – sometimes sooner than usual: Race to the Altar.

Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring weddings and/or marriages that occurred faster than you can sing “Here comes the bride.” Movies that fall into this category often have characters that get hitched soon after they first meet. Here are my selections for this week’s Race to the Altar theme.

Fools Rush In

Two strangers get married after a one-night stand leads to an unplanned pregnancy, in this entertaining romantic comedy starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek. In the case of these well-meaning adults, what happened in Vegas did not stay there!

The Hangover

A married dentist gets a second wife while visiting Las Vegas for his best friend’s bachelor party in this comedy starring Ed Helms, Heather Graham and Bradley Cooper.

Desert Flower

A famed model marries her neighbor to avoid deportation from Britain to Somalia, in this biographical drama starring Liya Kebede and Sally Hawkins. Although the guy flirted with her on many occasions, they were not dating and his proposal was more like a business transaction than a romantic offering, resulting in one of the quickest nuptials I’ve ever seen played out in a movie.

What movies have YOU watched that feature people getting married soon after they first meet?