Hollywood and weddings make such a nice couple

Movie-makers are mad about weddings.

Be they dramas, romantic comedies or satires, we're all invited to multiple marital celebrations every year at the cinema.

And 2009's crop starts Friday, when best friends duke it out for the perfect wedding in "Bride Wars," a new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson.

If you enter the word "wedding" into the Internet Movie Database's search engine ( tulsaworld.com/imdb ), 89 subcategories will immediately pop up. Among them are: canceled wedding (217 titles), wedding dress (111 titles), royal wedding (42 titles) and wedding cake (42 titles).

Below is a sampling of a few wedding films that stand out, in good times and in bad.

Worst wedding bust-up

In 2008’s “Made of Honor,” Patrick Dempsey’s last-minute effort to stop the nuptials of his best friend, Michelle Monaghan, are easy to anticipate and eye-roll worthy.

Best runaway bride

Claudette Colbert in 1934’s “It Happened One Night.” Spoiled heiress meets ambitious newspaper man (Clark Gable) after ditching her new, wealthy husband.

Worst wedding movie line

Julia Roberts in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997): “I’ve got exactly four days to break up a wedding, steal the bride’s fella and I haven’t one clue how to do it.” Obvious, much?

Best jilted groom

Adam Sandler in “The Wedding Singer” (1998). It’s hard not to feel sorry for Sandler’s ironic fate after getting dumped by his fiancée. Drew Barrymore is his perfect remedy

Best wedding villains

At the beginning of “Wedding Crashers” (2005), Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson tie for tops in this category. They’re rude, crude and they’ll do anything to get what they want from desperate wedding guests. And we love it.