With the release of the female-led comedy Bridesmaids this week, we started thinking about other film bridesmaids. After a little research I can reveal there have been a hell of a lot. Not all focus so much on the trials and tribulations of the job as much as Bridesmaids, but there have still been some classics throughout movie history. Here?s our top ten.
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Top ten big-screen bridesmaids, 
Katherine Heigl in 27 Dresses
Heigl plays cynical Jane who has been a bridesmaid a whopping 27 times, so has accumulated quite the range of dresses, and like typical bridesmaids dresses they are nearly all hideous. Her sister asks her to be a bridesmaid, only trouble is she's marrying the man Jane loves. Ooooh, whatever will happen next?
Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding
You may notice that there is already a theme occurring here. Again the character, in this case Julianne (Roberts), is asked to be the bridesmaid for the marriage of man she loves to someone else. In this case, it's her long term friend Michael (Dermot Mulroney) marrying the pretty but dim Kimberly (Cameron Diaz), much to Julianne's dismay.
Isla Fisher in The Wedding Crashers
Fisher clearly steals the show in this film playing Gloria Cleary. When wedding crashers, John and Jeremy, crash the wedding of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the hope of free food and drink and the chance to sleep with women, Jeremy gets more than he bargained for. He bags Gloria who is not only mentally unstable and a nymphomaniac, but she also quickly becomes obsessed with him.
Isla Fisher in Confessions of a Shopaholic
You know what they say - 'always the bridesmaid, never the bride' and Fisher is great in this role. This time she plays a shopping addict, Rebecca, who is seriously broke and during a Shopaholics Anonymous meeting is forced to give away all her latest purchases which include her bridesmaid dress. The bride, who is also her housemate, is furious, but things go even further downhill from there.
Mia Farrow in A Wedding
Farrow shines as Buffy, her dad's favourite daughter, in this 1970s social satire. As her sister Muffin marries the son of an Italian business man, the family's secrets start to unravel and when Buffy treats the groom to a 'special' gift, she is not such sweetness and light.
Lindsey Kraft in The Accidental Husband
The film might be pretty terrible, but Kraft does redeem it to some extent. She plays quite the vixen who tries to wreak havoc on her friend's (played by Uma Thurman) attempt for happiness. Despite that, she still ends up being a bridesmaid when her pal marries the man who set out to teach her a lesson in love.
Jennifer Aniston in He's Just Not That Into You
Aniston plays Beth, in this ensemble film, who has been with her boyfriend Neil (Ben Affleck) for seven years. She really wants to get married (art imitating life?), but when she asks Neil about it he shows no interest. They split up, but as she struggles through bridesmaid's duties for her sister, the couple reunite.
Patrick Dempsey in Made of Honor
Yes, we know he is a man, but he does play the 'maid' of honour in the film. He plays Tom who has been best friends with Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) for more than 10 years. When she moves to Scotland for work, he realises that he is actually in love with her (we could see that one coming). On arrival in Scotland, he discovers she is due to be married and she wants him to be her maid of honour. You can probably guess the rest.
Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon in Sex and the City
At last the moment we had waited series after series for, Carrie finally gets married and who does she marry? Mr Big. Ahhh. But hang on where is Mr Big? Fortunately when the man of her dreams is a no show she has her gang of girls, the ultimate bridesmaids, by her side.
Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally...
Everyone knows this film, or at least one scene in particular, you know the famous fake orgasm in the restaurant? Anyway Sally (Ryan) is the bridesmaid in a lovely black 80s dress for her friend Marie's wedding. At the wedding dinner Harry and Sally have an almighty row that looks like it could be the end of Harry and Sally...
Source: http://thefilmreview.com/features/top-ten-bigscreen-bridesmaids.html
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