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From time-looped nuptials to chaotic bachelorette parties, these rom-coms have it all.

Spring is in the air, which means wedding season is just around the corner. And if the Prime Video original movie “You’re Cordially Invited” is any indication - people are ready. I love a good wedding rom-com, and this one delivers. How could it not with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell leading the way? So, naturally, it got me thinking about all the other great wedding rom-coms out there. From time-loop wedding ceremonies to disastrous bachelorette parties, here are my picks for the top 7 wedding rom-coms you can stream right now to get you in the right mood for wedding season!

Top 7 wedding rom-com movies you can stream right now

No. 7: ‘You’re Cordially Invited’

No. 6: ‘Father of the Bride’

No. 5: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

No. 4: ‘The Proposal’

No. 3: ‘Palm Springs’

No. 2: ‘Bridesmaids’

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Charles Shyer, the director and Oscar-nominated writer who teamed with then-wife Nancy Meyers on such audience-pleasing, feel-good comedies as Private Benjamin, Irreconcilable Differences, Baby Boom and Father of the Bride, has died. He was 83.

Shyer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer, writer and director of the 2017 Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The son of veteran assistant director Melville Shyer, one of the founders of the DGA, Shyer started out writing for sitcoms like The Odd Couple and The Partridge Family with then-partner Alan Mandel before they broke into the movies with the box office smash Smokey and the Bandit (1977), starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field.

Shyer’s career skyrocketed when he joined forces with Meyers and Harvey Miller to pen the screenplay for Private Benjamin (1980), directed by Howard Zieff and featuring Goldie Hawn in her first big-screen starring role.

The latest in our series of writers revealing their favourite mood-lifting films is an ode to the 1991 comedy in which Steve Martin is a farcically over-protective father

I should hate this film. A possessive father loses the plot at the notion that his 22-year-old daughter – a sophisticated architecture student just back from a semester in Rome – is engaged to a man he hasn’t met. After she tells him the news at dinner, we see her saying it a second time through his eyes, as a seven-year-old. When the groom arrives, dad almost has an aneurysm at him daring to put his hand on her leg, and starts watching America’s Most Wanted every night looking for his face. He goes so cuckoo bananas over the prospect of their wedding that he loses it at the supermarket and briefly ends up in jail. “I was no longer the man in my little girl’s life,...

You don't hear it mentioned too often in discussions of successful Hollywood franchises, but the "Father of the Bride" saga has demonstrated remarkable staying power. Like the Banks family itself, we've watched as this franchise has grown up, moved out the house, and had children of its own in the form of two reboots and multiple sequels. But things all started back in 1949 when Edward Streeter's "Father of the Bride" novel was adapted into the classic 1950 comedy of the same name. Since then, the series has produced six films, one of which was a short film produced during the global pandemic and the most recent being 2022's "Father of the Bride" remake. 

In all, you've got a franchise that has spanned almost eight decades and which continues to delight audiences 72 years after the first film debuted. Modern audiences might finally be ready for more than sequels and reboots, but...

Manic, magic, madcap … Julie Andrews is superb in the role of the flying nanny, in a film filled with amazing songs

Brilliant, entrancing, exhausting, and with thermonuclear showtunes from Richard and Robert Sherman, Disney’s hybrid live-action/animation classic from 1964 is now rereleased on home entertainment platforms for its 60th anniversary. And it has a brand-new certificate from the BBFC: upgraded from a U to a PG on account of “discriminatory language” from the eccentric seadog character Admiral Boom, who fires a cannon from his roof shouting “Fight the Hottentots!” (an obsolete term for South Africa’s indigenous Khoekhoe people). However the BBFC is evidently not bothered by the foxhunting scene in which the fox has a cod Irish accent, nor by the cheerful suicide reference made by one of the servants: “Nice spot there by Southwark Bridge, very popular with jumpers!”

In an upmarket part of Edwardian London created...

Screen veteran Glynis Johns, who very memorably played Mrs. Banks in the beloved movie Mary Poppins, has died.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Johns passed away on Thursday at an assisted living facility in West Hollywood. Her passing was confirmed by her manager, Mitch Clem. Johns, who officially became the oldest living Disney Legend following Betty White's passing in 2021, was 100 years old.

Johns, considered to have been one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, had an impressive career with more than eight decades spent in show business, having portrayed dozens of characters on stage and on the screen. One of her most well-known roles is as Winifred Banks, the feminist mother of Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garber), and wife of George Banks (David Tomlinson). Walt Disney, who produced the classic film, had hand-picked Johns for the role of Mrs. Banks, with...

Glynis Johns, most known for playing the high-spirited Mrs. Winifred Banks in Disney’s Mary Poppins, has died. She was 100 years old. Johns’ publicist, Mitch Clem, told ABC Eyewitness News that the legendary actor died of natural causes on Thursday, January 4. She was living in an assisted living facility. Before she played the suffragette in the 1964 Julie Andrews classic, Johns starred in another Disney film called The Sword and the Rose. She was named a Disney Legend in 1998 alongside Mary Poppins co-star Dick Van Dyke. Andrews was named one in 1991, with David Tomlinson (Mr. George Banks) being added in 2002 and Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber (Jane and Michael Banks) being added in 2004. With the death of Betty White in 2021, Johns became the oldest living Disney Legend. With the death of Olivia de Havilland in 2020, she became the oldest living Oscar nominee for acting. Karen Dotrice, Glynis Johns, Matthew Garber, David...

It’s no mystery why Only Murders in the Building is killing it on Hulu. Besides the national obsession with true crime, there is a chemical reaction to the players which triggers a chaotic element unknown in forensics. Selina Gomez’s (occasionally “Bloody”) Mabel Mora ties up the loose ends. You might say she Martinizes them. It is harder to find looser ends than Steve Martin and Martin Short. As Charles-Haden Savage and Oliver Putnam, respectively, the two performers may stick to the scripts in the series, but they spent over a generation improvising over each other.

Martin and Short met while shooting the 1986 film Three Amigos! with Chevy Chase. Admiring new friend Steve’s opulent home, Martin was moved to ask “How did you get so rich,” he recalled on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, marveling at its improbability by admitting “I’ve seen your work.” They’ve been collaborating ever since,...

Warning! Contains spoilers for Only Murders in the Building season 3!The Only Murders in the Building season 3 cast is a blend of lovable regulars and new A-list talent, and the show's much-anticipated return once again brings fresh energy with some incredibly well-selected new cast members. The comedy series centers on three disparate true-crime podcast aficionados, Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), who all live in the Arconia, a luxurious Upper West Side apartment building. When a murder takes place at the Arconia, the trio bands together to crack the case, and they create a podcast and unlikely friendship in the process.

Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building finds the core trio investigating the murder of actor Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd). In addition to its starry lead cast, Only Murders in the Building is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to celebrity guest stars and cameos.

The cast of Only Murders in the Building has been teasing the upcoming third season with some behind-the-scenes snaps, including Selena Gomez decked out in a wedding dress. On Tuesday, March 21, a tuxedo-wearing Steve Martin shared a photo on Twitter where he posed with his co-star Gomez, who wore a white lace gown and matching veil. “Guess what just happened!” he captioned the pic. Many fans saw the photo as an homage to Martin’s 1991 film Father of the Bride, in which he plays George Banks, whose daughter returns from a trip aboard and announces she is engaged. The movie also stars fellow Only Murders cast member Martin Short as the eccentric European wedding coordinator Franck Eggelhoffer. Guess what just happened! pic.twitter.com/V4aNJjQUKW — Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) March 21, 2023 but it’s over then you’re drivin’ me home and it kinda comes out as I get up to...

Steve Martin has sent fans down memory lane after posting a photo with his Only Murders in the Building co-star, Selena Gomez.

The actor and comedian shared an image of himself and Gomez standing next to each other, with Martin in a suit and Gomez wearing a white wedding dress.

“Look what just happened!” Martin captured the post on Tuesday (21 March).

With the picture presumably taken on set, fans are assuming that their outfits hint at a forthcoming storyline in their TV show, in which they play neighbours who join forces to solve a murder in their apartment building.

However, many others have drawn a link between the image and one of Martin’s most popular projects, Father of the Bride.

In the 1991 comedy film, he played George Banks, a man who struggles when his daughter Annie announces her engagement.

The film grossed $129m worldwide and was followed by a...

In “Father of the Bride,” Steve Martin showed audiences just how hard it can be for a dad to let go when his daughter gets married. But everything gets a little easier the eighth time around.

Martin reprised his role as George Banks from Charles Shyer’s 1991 film on Saturday when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” alongside Martin Short. The parody sketch advertised a new sequel, “Father of the Bride: Part VIII,” which features Martin’s daughter Annie (Heidi Gardner) preparing to get married yet again after surviving seven divorces.

Martin is less than enthused about this prospect, considering his daughter’s track record with marriage and the continued financial burden that her wedding habit has placed on him. He laments that the “I’m your little girl” argument is no longer as persuasive as it once was, given that his daughter is now 52-years-old and has forced her mother...

Steve Martin and Martin Short have appeared in many projects together over the years, from "Three Amigos!" to "Only Murders In The Building." Their latest collaboration was co-hosting this weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live" — they even delivered the monologue together.

Among the episode's sketches was a send-up of "Father of the Bride," the 1991 comedy starring the pair. The second adaptation of the 1949 novel, the film featured Martin as the titular father, George Banks, who is none too pleased when his 22-year-old daughter comes home from Europe with a fiancé in tow. Meanwhile, Short played the eccentric wedding planner Franck Eggelhoffer, who pushes the event to luxurious (and expensive) extremes.

Pitching itself as "Father of the Bride Part 8," the sketch uses "SNL" regulars to fill out the original movie's supporting cast — with one exception. Kieran Culkin, who at age nine appeared as Banks' young son Matty, returns in the sketch...

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Succession‘s Kieran Culkin and Only Murders in the Building‘s Selena Gomez popped into the latest episode of Saturday Night Live for a Father of the Bride reunion.

Steve Martin and Martin Short both hosted the Dec. 10 show, which saw the comedic duo reprise their iconic characters, George Banks and wedding planner Franck Eggelhoffer, respectively, in a bit that riffed on the film and franchise sequels.

Culkin returned as a grown Matty Banks, while SNL castmembers took the family’s other various roles including Chloe Fineman impersonating Diane Keaton in her role of mother Nina Banks and Heidi Gardner as the titular bride Annie, originally played by Kimberly Williams-Paisley. Bowen Yang also starred in the sketch, appearing as Howard Weinstein, second-in-command to Short’s Eggelhoffer — a role originated by Bd Wong.

Returning to 24 Maple Dr., the Banks family is gearing up for yet another wedding for Annie,...

Saturday Night Live blessed viewers with a 2022 reboot of the 1991 film The Father of the Bride reuniting Steve Martin, Martin Short and Kieran Culkin, who all starred in the original.

The franchise’s latest incarnation picks up many years later as George Banks (Martin) is celebrating his 52-year-old daughter Annie’s (Heidi Gardner) latest engagement. As much as he loves his princess, he admits he cannot afford to pay for another Nancy Meyers-level celebration. In fact, his wife Nina (Chloe Fineman) is currently driving for Lyft to pay off her last wedding—her seventh!

Annie is certainly going to get her way so this soiree will need a planner, and no one else will do but Franck (Short). As the heavily accented Franck is suggesting all the ways the bride-to-be can be refreshed, her annoying brother Matty (Culkin) walks through the front door.

If you keep your eyes on that door,...

After more than 60 years in the industry, Steve Martin is hinting that it's only a matter of time before he retires. In 2021, Martin made his "Only Murders in the Building" debut as former TV star Charles-Haden Savage, sharing the screen with Selena Gomez and longtime friend Martin Short. Prior to hosting a fictional true-crime podcast and investigating murders on screen, Martin, who turned 77 on Aug. 14, spent decades winning the hearts of fans with his acting, iconic comedy routines, and impressive banjo skills. But in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Aug. 10, Martin admitted that his "Omitb" role is likely his last.

"When this television show is done, I'm not going to seek others. I'm not going to seek other movies."

"We were very happy just doing the live show," Martin said. "There may be a natural end to that - somebody gets sick, somebody just wears out -...

Spoilers ahead for Mary Poppins Returns. Mary Poppins Returns is largely just Mary Poppins with a new coat of paint. Instead of Bert the Chimneysweep, you have Jack the Lamplighter. Instead of Uncle Albert on the ceiling, you have Cousin Topsy whose home is upside down. Instead of George Banks in trouble at the bank, you have Michael Banks in trouble with the bank. Instead of “A Spoonful of Sugar” to introduce fun and magic to the children, you have “Can You Imagine That?” And for the most part, that’s fine. It’s clear that the filmmakers didn’t …...