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So this was the second time that I made it to this movie, and it was just as good as the first time. I think that the wedding planning period is probably the weirdest time in a person's life. Planning that big wedding where you and everyone close to you is centered around flowers and clothes and color-schemes that you will be so sick of by the time you're done planning that you'll never want to see them again. Everyone gets so obsessed with the menu and the guest list and the seating chart and music and dancing. Its fun and its not fun. Its important and its bullshit. Its special and its generic. Its unique and its cliche. Its all just so weird. The wedding becomes the complete focus, especially if its a short engagement and you're on a tight schedule.
SPOILERS!!!!!
Its a romantic comedy, but its not. Nobody is falling in love, the people that would fall in love are already in love and on the happily ever after. In fact, the only time that people fall in love in the movie its done offscreen. Its a story about friends, girl friends. How this 'special day', the 'most important' day of a person's life, comes between to friends that have been besties for 20years (since they were about six or seven). How this important day morphs into something else. How it becomes this all-consuming that that nearly ruins this friendship that has lasted so long and been through so much (including the loss of one of the bride's parents at an early age).
Of course the process, the events, eventually change both brides. Liv [Kate Hudson] goes from being perfect and overbearing to someone that realizes that she can't be perfect all the time and she has to give up the reins and control to someone else sometimes. Emma [Anne Hathaway] learns that she doesn't have to be the person that always gives in, that always gives up her dreams for someone else, including the fiance that she dumps at the altar... kind of, its pretty much the altar of the other bride who does go through her wedding to a pretty amazing guy, Danny [Steve Howey], after a tussel in the aisle with her best friend/biggest enemy.
There are a lot of mishaps, or pranks, that each bride plays on the other. Liv switches Emma's tanning solution from Bit O Honey to Blood Orange after Emma sends her tons of fattening food and causes her to gain 5lbs and not fit into her Vera Wang dress ("you don't alter Vera, you alter yourself for Vera" and "Ms Wang is a stern mistress" are two quotes given. There is no bedazzeling in the movie like shown in the preview). In response to the tanning thing Emma switches Liv's hairdye from golden low lights to blue. Then Liv tells everyone that Emma is preggers and that's why the wedding is a rush, causing their friends to send tons of baby gifts to her tiny apartment (so much so its difficult for her to get in the door). Then Emma crashes Liv's baby shower and outdoes her in the 'sexy dance' competition between the two brides at the strip club. Of course at one point Liv has a meltdown at work about her blue hair, and her disaster wedding and the fact that her best friend hates her causing her to get demoted and even more stress. That's when she tries to make things better, and after a huge fight with Fletch [Chris Pratt in his usual role as jerk] Emma tries the same. Both aren't directly shot down, but due to the events that had taken place they blow off the other without knowing it.
In the end they make up at Liv's wedding after Emma storms out of her own after an accidental prank (a video she originally switched and accidentily didn't get it switched back even though she gave her paid for mister of honor the real disc, he thought it was the fake one and trashed it) and attacks Liv while she's walking down the aisle with her brother. The roll around on the floor and in a fight before they talk it out and make up, all in front of everyone. Emma breaks it off with Fletch and then stands in as Maid of Honor at the wedding and the reception.
Then it picks up 1year later with Liv waiting for Emma at a restaurant. Emma gets there and Liv asks how the vacation was, but then again she doesn't want to know because Emma married her brother, Nate [Bryan Greenberg]. Liv offers a toast but Emma says she isn't drinking and Liv says she isn't either. Then they both realize that the other is pregnant and when they ask they learn that they're due on the same day (March 3rd). My cousin said that it's almost as if they leave it open for a sequel, but I didn't think so. But if there is one, $100 says it's called "Mommy Wars".
I really loved it, that it showed how you can make such a platonic connection to someone that no matter what you're there for each other. That no matter how big the fight, how big the problem, in the end you are there.
It makes me a little sad that Liv had to go through the whole wedding process without her best friend. Emma got to plan a whole other wedding with Nate and I'm sure Liv was there every step of the way, but Liv didn't get to relive it.
It makes me grateful and happy that I don't have to worry about this. My maid of honor is already locked in. My cousin, Liz, who after seeing this movie assured me that if we were ever somehow engaged at the same time she would default. Her exact words were "I know that I'd have to be the one that backed down anyway, but there's not instance in this world where we'd want the same wedding". Which is true because I'm more Plaza in June (well, May) while she is her parent's backyard (which is 60acres of farmland) in August. I'm big event wedding while she is low key simple. We're each other's maids of honor. Best part is that we have the same family, so we know how to take care of it and tell the other's mother to back off. She can already tell that she'll be telling her mom, our grandmother, our great aunt and my mother to back the fuck off (really, I'll probably be doing that, I've always been the more confrontational). Chances are, she'll be the only other person involved in my wedding plans, but she's completely capable of telling my mother to back off too.
I just realized that there are incredible similarities between me and Liv and Liz and Emma. But not.
Here is Bride Wars at Internet Movie Database.
Go see it, or rent it when it comes out April 28, 2009!
Its a romantic comedy, but its not. Nobody is falling in love, the people that would fall in love are already in love and on the happily ever after. In fact, the only time that people fall in love in the movie its done offscreen. Its a story about friends, girl friends. How this 'special day', the 'most important' day of a person's life, comes between to friends that have been besties for 20years (since they were about six or seven). How this important day morphs into something else. How it becomes this all-consuming that that nearly ruins this friendship that has lasted so long and been through so much (including the loss of one of the bride's parents at an early age).
Of course the process, the events, eventually change both brides. Liv [Kate Hudson] goes from being perfect and overbearing to someone that realizes that she can't be perfect all the time and she has to give up the reins and control to someone else sometimes. Emma [Anne Hathaway] learns that she doesn't have to be the person that always gives in, that always gives up her dreams for someone else, including the fiance that she dumps at the altar... kind of, its pretty much the altar of the other bride who does go through her wedding to a pretty amazing guy, Danny [Steve Howey], after a tussel in the aisle with her best friend/biggest enemy.
There are a lot of mishaps, or pranks, that each bride plays on the other. Liv switches Emma's tanning solution from Bit O Honey to Blood Orange after Emma sends her tons of fattening food and causes her to gain 5lbs and not fit into her Vera Wang dress ("you don't alter Vera, you alter yourself for Vera" and "Ms Wang is a stern mistress" are two quotes given. There is no bedazzeling in the movie like shown in the preview). In response to the tanning thing Emma switches Liv's hairdye from golden low lights to blue. Then Liv tells everyone that Emma is preggers and that's why the wedding is a rush, causing their friends to send tons of baby gifts to her tiny apartment (so much so its difficult for her to get in the door). Then Emma crashes Liv's baby shower and outdoes her in the 'sexy dance' competition between the two brides at the strip club. Of course at one point Liv has a meltdown at work about her blue hair, and her disaster wedding and the fact that her best friend hates her causing her to get demoted and even more stress. That's when she tries to make things better, and after a huge fight with Fletch [Chris Pratt in his usual role as jerk] Emma tries the same. Both aren't directly shot down, but due to the events that had taken place they blow off the other without knowing it.
In the end they make up at Liv's wedding after Emma storms out of her own after an accidental prank (a video she originally switched and accidentily didn't get it switched back even though she gave her paid for mister of honor the real disc, he thought it was the fake one and trashed it) and attacks Liv while she's walking down the aisle with her brother. The roll around on the floor and in a fight before they talk it out and make up, all in front of everyone. Emma breaks it off with Fletch and then stands in as Maid of Honor at the wedding and the reception.
Then it picks up 1year later with Liv waiting for Emma at a restaurant. Emma gets there and Liv asks how the vacation was, but then again she doesn't want to know because Emma married her brother, Nate [Bryan Greenberg]. Liv offers a toast but Emma says she isn't drinking and Liv says she isn't either. Then they both realize that the other is pregnant and when they ask they learn that they're due on the same day (March 3rd). My cousin said that it's almost as if they leave it open for a sequel, but I didn't think so. But if there is one, $100 says it's called "Mommy Wars".
I really loved it, that it showed how you can make such a platonic connection to someone that no matter what you're there for each other. That no matter how big the fight, how big the problem, in the end you are there.
It makes me a little sad that Liv had to go through the whole wedding process without her best friend. Emma got to plan a whole other wedding with Nate and I'm sure Liv was there every step of the way, but Liv didn't get to relive it.
It makes me grateful and happy that I don't have to worry about this. My maid of honor is already locked in. My cousin, Liz, who after seeing this movie assured me that if we were ever somehow engaged at the same time she would default. Her exact words were "I know that I'd have to be the one that backed down anyway, but there's not instance in this world where we'd want the same wedding". Which is true because I'm more Plaza in June (well, May) while she is her parent's backyard (which is 60acres of farmland) in August. I'm big event wedding while she is low key simple. We're each other's maids of honor. Best part is that we have the same family, so we know how to take care of it and tell the other's mother to back off. She can already tell that she'll be telling her mom, our grandmother, our great aunt and my mother to back the fuck off (really, I'll probably be doing that, I've always been the more confrontational). Chances are, she'll be the only other person involved in my wedding plans, but she's completely capable of telling my mother to back off too.
I just realized that there are incredible similarities between me and Liv and Liz and Emma. But not.
Here is Bride Wars at Internet Movie Database.
Go see it, or rent it when it comes out April 28, 2009!
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