THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO THIS SUMMER, Four Weddings and A Funeral came out and the full horror of British marriages was revealed to the world. The peculiar dress code, the bumbling vicar, the interminable speeches, the enforced small talk, the grotesquery of the seating plan, the awful spectre of the dancefloor, and the endless, endless drinking. The film’s funeral looked much more straightforward, practically jollier, in comparison.
Here’s the contemporary version: a big, fat, Oxbridge wedding in the South of France, which involves several events across four days. It’s not solely a British affair. One of the grooms is American, so there’s a softball game before the wedding, and plenty of American guests, but the trademark elements of a modern destination wedding in Europe are there: expensive hotel, long, painstaking itinerary detailing…
