Top five vintage wedding movies
It Had to Be You (1947)
Victoria Stafford (Ginger Rogers) is a wealthy young woman who has been engaged three times, and who has changed her mind at the last second at all three weddings.
She is engaged again and is determined to wed her fourth fiance, Oliver H.P. Harrington (Ron Randell), when she has a dream in which a man dressed like an Indian breaks up her fourth wedding. When she wakes up, she is startled to find that the ‘Indian’ from her dream is real. After various complications she ends up once again ditching her fiance. However, there is a happy ending.
Oklahoma! (1955)
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical set in the early 1900s includes plenty of romantic stereotypes, including young cowboys in love, roaming peddlers and an evil ranch hand. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who has trouble admitting his feelings to his girlfriend Laurey while Laurey’s friend Ado Annie is torn between Will and a peddler.
In 2007 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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Great list! Here are a few more for your consideration…
Pal Joey – Kim Novak, Frank Sinatra
The Wedding Singer – Is 80′s considered vintage yet?
Father of the Bride – Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor – How could you miss this one?
The African Queen – Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn – not a big wedding, but an awesome wedding nonetheless!
It Happened One Night – Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert – such a great one!
You were never lovlier- with Fred and Rita. Love it!