Our final installment of the best wedding movie moments of all time pulls from a variety of cinema styles and, in one case, revisits familiar territory:

4. The Wedding Singer. Isn’t it always the way? You meet the perfect girl when you’re bout about to marry other people, and you realize she’s the perfect girl shortly after your fiancé dumps you at the altar. That’s the experience of wedding singer Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) who finds himself enamored with Drew Barrymore’s Julia Sullivan. Our wedding moment is actually a pre-wedding moment in this case, when Robbie wins the girl on a plane on her way to marry someone else, singing a song he’s written called “Grow Old With You,” helped along in his plans by Billy Idol. How could it fail? It couldn’t. Robbie’s kiss with Julia on the plane fades into their wedding day kiss.

3. Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hugh Grant’s Charles is interested in Annie McDowel’s Carrie from the first time he sees her at a friend’s wedding. He’s still interested in her the next time he sees her, at another friend’s wedding, even though she’s engaged. Third wedding (hers this time): still interested. And, yes, still interested in her at the time of his near wedding to a woman he doesn’t truly love. Our wedding moment here is the non-wedding. After so much ado about ceremonies, Charles and Carrie embody the spirit of the communion in its truest form when he asks, “Do you think not being married to me might maybe be something you could consider doing for the rest of your life?” and she says, “I do.”

2. The Runaway Bride. Our Maggie Carpenter has realized what needs to happen to assure wedding-day success after walking (running, actually) out on Ike Graham on the occasion of their hastily planned wedding. She needs to ride her own horse off into the sunset. Seeing her get to do this in the end, and seeing Julia Roberts and Richard Gere beginning another Happily Ever After is delightful.

And our favourite wedding movie moment of all time…

1. Sweet Home Alabama. Melanie Smoother’s (Reese Witherspoon) wedding is the stuff Jerry Springer’s dreams are made of. Her lawyer chases her down to say that she’s not divorced from her first husband and childhood sweetheart (Josh Lucas), she leaves her groom at the altar, his high-powered mother insults Melanie’s mother, Melanie punches her would-be groom’s high-powered mother in the face … and then Melanie runs off to find her a groom. Rare is the man who would make audiences dislike the idea of Patrick Dempsey as the guy who gets the girl, but we all know she belongs with Lucas and are happy for her when she realizes it too. Not the ideal wedding scenario perhaps, but a great example of the “it'll all work out in the end” Hollywood movies that gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside.