The 20 Best Movie Weddings of All Time, From the 1930s Through Today

Waikiki Wedding rides the wave of the gorgeous Hawaii backdrop. Tony Marvin (Crosby) is a publicity man who creates a Pineapple Girl contest and promises the winner three romantic weeks in Hawaii, using her story to advertise for his pineapple company.

When the winner, Georgia (Shirley Ross), complains she's not enjoying herself at all, Tony steps in to make sure she does — and ends up falling in love with her through a slew of misadventures.

The gorgeous Scarlett O'Hara, a clever Southern belle played by Vivien Leigh, is married thrice in this epic Civil War story. Her first marriage was to spite the man she truly loved who had spurned her, Ashley; her second husband was the beau of her sister, whom she married for purely practical reasons.

Scarlett's third marriage was to Rhett Butler, whom she married for his wealth, though at the very end of the film — a little too late — she realized she loved him. To which he replied with the famous line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Based on the shenanigans of a real-life Philadelphia socialite, The Philadelphia Story is an ideal example of a comedy of remarriage — aka when a couple breaks up, has side romances, and then gets back together in the end.

Katherine Hepburn plays socialite Tracy Lord, who is in the midst of planning her second wedding. However, after some meddlesome reporters and her ex-husband, Dexter, played by Cary Grant, get involved, they throw the matrimony for a loop. When it comes time to walk down the aisle, Dexter is by her side once more.

This charming musical starts with one marriage and ends with six more: Howard Keel plays Adam, a backwoodsman who goes to town and finds Milly, played by Jane Powell. After Adam sees how hardworking Milly is and realizes she's a good cook, he asks for her hand in marriage, and the smitten Milly accepts.

What Milly doesn't know is that Adam has six grown and unruly brothers, and she is expected to cook and clean for them all. But she takes it one step further by trying to tame the wild men into attracting brides of their own.

A Rogers and Hammerstein musical film, Oklahoma! is a love story made convoluted by two people who just can't admit their feelings for each other. Farm girl Laurey (Shirley Jones) and cowboy Curly (Gordon MacRae) spend the whole movie trying to make each other jealous.

The runaround ends violently, with Curly accidentally killing the crook whom Laurey used to tease Curly before they set off on their honeymoon. The lesson of the story: Be honest about your true feelings so no one gets hurt.

Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and Dean Martin make up a love triangle in Texas. Leslie (Taylor) marries Bick (Hudson), and they start a family together on a ranch. Their neighbor, Jett, falls in love with Leslie and remains devoted to her even after she and Bick raise two children together.

The movie touches on the very modern issue of bias against immigrants: Leslie and Bick's son, Jordy, marries Juana, a Mexican woman, and in one pivotal scene in which a racist restaurant owner insults Juana, Bick steps in to defend his family.

This epic musical is so much more than a romance, but it has a gorgeous wedding scene nonetheless. Maria's (Julie Andrews) white dress train is memorable, as is the cathedral where she gives up her life in a convent to marry Captain von Trapp.

The two had a rocky start when Maria arrived to care for the Captain's seven children. But it was through the children that the two were able to realize their love for each other.

Dustin Hoffman plays Ben Braddock, a recent college graduate seduced by his married older neighbor, Mrs. Robinson. Then Ben falls in love with her daughter, Elaine, and in retaliation, Mrs. Robinson does all she can to sabotage their connection.

The climax sees Ben interrupting Elaine's wedding to her college beau by banging on the church door and screaming her name. The two run away together, ecstatic and on high, until they make it on a getaway bus and sit with the consequences of everything they've just done.

This is the movie responsible for the somewhat-controversial famous line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Jenny and Oliver are two brains who meet in a campus library and enjoy bickering so much together that they get hitched right after college. They hold an intimate atheist ceremony on campus.

Throughout their relationship, they navigate Oliver's rough connection with his dad, and Jenny gives up her future in music to support Oliver through law school. Too soon, the couple discovers Jenny's terminal illness when they have trouble conceiving a baby. Jenny spends her last moments assuring Oliver that he is all she ever wanted.

Matrimony definitely isn't the center of the first installment of this classic trilogy, but it is the opening scene, and it's a subtle way to depict the undercurrent of the Mafia and how it is infused in the lives of the Corleone family.

On the outside, Connie Corleone is having a picture-perfect, huge wedding by the water. She looks like a princess in her dress, and famous singer Johnny Fontane serenades her in the sun. Behind the scenes, however, her father is busy making offers that his opponents can't refuse.