To boost the sales of their routinely dismal February issue, Confetti magazine will hold a contest to determine the most 'original' wedding. The nationally televised event will award a one-half million dollar house to the winning couple and picture them on February's cover. Of the three competing pairs, one plans a tennis-themed ceremony while another will exchange vows performing a 1940's-style musical number. The third represent a naturist commune and (allowing some legal loopholes) will wed as a fully disrobed man and wife. Tune in to see the constestants scramble to plan their own uniquely original wedding with only three months to prepare.Mockumentaries have an uncanny knack for revealing the true-to-life quirks of 'normal' situations. This movie with its ribald band of British comedians pokes serious fun at the institution of marriage and its hangers-on. Showing the lengths people go to for a real "wedding experience" (and to win a free house), the largely improv'd footage characterizes the outrageousness of oft to-be-wed couples and other players involved with wedding planning. The satire is dead-on; especially as family feuds erupt amid preparations and wannabe limelight stealers threaten to sabotage the ceremony. Alison Lohman (A&E's Pride and Prejudice) is perfect as another eccentric mother-in-law.
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