There are few rituals in life more chaotic, confounding and magical than the wedding. Appropriately, marriages have provided the backdrop for many a story spun through the ages. From sending out multitudes of wedding invitations, choosing the right dress, or whether to seat Aunt Mabel next to her second or fifth ex-husband at the reception, weddings both in life and on film are almost always guaranteed to bring forth a surge of emotions. Below are a few of our favorite cinematic nuptials:

1.The Searchers (1956)
John Ford's western masterpiece is full of many iconic moments, not the least of which is one of the screen's greatest knock-down, drag-out fights between Jeffrey Hunter and Ken Curtis for the hand of comely Vera Miles. Martin Scorsese loved this scene so much, he paid homage by having his characters watch it in Mean Streets (1973).

7.The Wedding Singer (1998)
Adam Sandler had his finest hour in the first film to portray the 1980s nostalgically. Sandler is a sweet-natured, small-time musician in '80s New Jersey who makes his living as the lead singer in a cover band that specializes in playing wedding receptions. When his own fiancée walks out on him in the eleventh hour, Sandler thinks he's found redemption in the guise of lovely Drew Barrymore. There's only one problem: she's engaged to the biggest '80s douchebag since American Psycho's Patrick Bateman. Never have so many different weddings been portrayed with such verve on-screen.