Wedding Blog
The night before the wedding (which is only a few days away - yikes!), Mr. Hum and I have agreed to spend the night in different places. He will stay at our ceremony/reception site with the boys - his dad, his brother Nick and our friend and videographer Alex (a.k.a. Zombiegroom), while I head over to Ancaster with my future sister-in-law Erin and our friend and other videographer Kim (a.k.a. Zombiebride) for a girls only sleepover.
Since I’m a pretty jittery person when I am excited about something, I decided to try and come up with a bit of a plan to keep myself distracted pre-wedding. And, because I am a movie fan, I figured what better way to do it than by watching some retro teen movies*? After all, how can a girl be nervous about walking up the aisle when confronted with the ridiculousness of 1980s fashion?
Anyway, here are some of the movies I’m considering:
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Say Anything. It’s a predictable choice for me, considering my previously mentioned obsession with this movie, but it’s so good! It’s got a script by Cameron Crowe. It’s got the Cus at his most adorkably attractive (circa 1989). And it’s got all the trenchcoat wearing, boombox hoisting, Peter Gabriel love a girl can stand! What can I say? It’s totally made of win.
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Girls Just Want To Have Fun. A ridiculously young Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker play two girls who are obsessed with a TV dance show and long to audition. However, SJP’s father disapproves. Will they ever triumph against adversity? Well, if you’ve ever seen a movie before in your life, you know they will, but it’s still fun to watch. (Plus, for bonus girl points, it has Shannen Doherty prior to her bitchy Brenda days. Score!)
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Pretty In Pink. It’s a story as old as time. He’s a good-looking prepster with a ridiculous name and she’s a spunky free spirit from the wrong side of the tracks. Fate drew them together but will their friends keep them apart? Hint - Jon Cryer’s character is a dork** and Andrew McCarthy was considered hot in 1986. Do your own math.
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The Breakfast Club. All of the people in this movie have since dropped off the face of the planet, but I defy you not to pump your fist in triumph as the characters walk off into the sunset to the strains of “Don’t You Forget About Me.” (Especially Judd Nelson. He was harsh.)
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Better Off Dead. The Cus’ strikes again! This movie is definitely the most wacky of the bunch since, in addition to featuring a love story, it’s also filled with claymation, psychotic paperboys and exploding moms, but it makes me laugh. However, if you watch it, beware as my beloved John Cusack wears the shortest short shorts in the history of humanity. Seriously, they are so unattractive, when I watch the movie, much like the sun, I cannot look directly at him while he’s wearing them.
Anyway, I figure these titles will be pretty good for my purposes as they are all fun to watch and have cheesy romantic subplots. What do you think ladies? What 1980s flick would rock your socks for a girls movie night? Weigh in on these or suggest something new!
*Sorry boys, no pillow fights in underpants for the Hummingbird posse.
**I’m probably going to have virtual tomatoes thrown at me for saying this, but was I the only one who wanted her to end up with Duckie?
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Cult classics! I love them all!
Speaking of “Duckies,” doesn’t that make you want to add Howard the Duck to the list?!? Ha!
I’m such a movie geek, too, and am planning on watching 80s movies the night before my wedding with my girls! we’re also thinking about:
fast times at ridgmount high
heathers
sixteen candles (ends with a silly wedding scene - bonus!)
p.s. - i not only wanted andie to end up with duckie at the end of pretty in pink, but i kinda had a crush on him, too. for shame.
Oh, and to update the list: 13 Going On 30 is a recent (and the ONLY post90s) hilarious preteen chick flick for the list! Maybe I love it cause it reaches out to that awkward 80s life!
I LOVE 80’s teen movies. My vote is for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” BUT I agree with sillyinphilly about “Sixteen Candles.”
Have a great time!
I TOTALLY wanted her to end up w/ Duckie!
I LOOOOVE this list - you have to go w/ at least on Cus movie - John Cusack is my most favoritest actor of all time!
Cusack, Cusack, Cusack = anything with John Cusack is perfect.
NiftyBa, I can’t say it any better than that.
I’d have to nominate two 90s flicks:
Don’t tell mom the babysitter’s dead - featuring fast-food, fashion, a skeezy David Duchovny, and of course, true love, and
Clueless - an all-time favorite that also ends in a wedding!
dude! how can we have an 80s teen movie night without sixteen candles?!?! it’ll be mildly appropriate since there is a wedding that takes place in the movie….
LOVE the selections though 
AHHHH! I didn’t think anyone else liked Better Off Dead as much as me! I saw John Cusack once in person and it took everything not to say “I want my two dollars!” Better Off Dead… HANDS DOWN.
Definitely “Pretty in Pink” ,”Breakfast Club”, and “Say Anything”. Classics! Oh, they just don’t make ‘em the way they use to…
Wanted to ask…what did you decide on for tent decor?
I fell for Duckie after seeing his rendition of Otis Redding’s “Try A Little Tenderness”… it is one of my all time favorite songs and the last song I listened to before walking down the aisle.
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” was on a few night’s ago. Love the cast of soon to be stars and the ridiculous plot.
Tough choice on the movie. Anything John Cusack is a winner… but I would have to second the “Sixteen Candles” suggestion. What a great idea to calm the pretty wedding nerves
OMG watch Girl’s Just Want to Have Fun if only for the great dancing! 
Have fun!
One of my 80s favs is “Shag.” It’s about three girls that convince their friend (who is about to get married) that they are taking her to Ft. Sumter, but they trick her and take her to Myrtle Beach for a fun girls trip. It’s set in 1963 and is really cute!
Apparently we all love us some Cusack as well, Miss Hum If I were you, I would definitely go with “Say Anything”– “Your Eyes” is one of the only shamelessly 80s tunes I insisted on having on our wedding playlist!
I love Say Anything- like you, I’m a huge fan of Cameron Crowe and Cusack. And I just caught the end of it on tv the other day. There’s my vote!
The original ending of Pretty in Pink ended up with Duckie with the girl. but Sixteen Candles is hands down my favorite of those hughes movies. Long Duk Dong! *gong sound*
this is such a good idea!!
OH!
What about “Can’t Buy Me Love” ??!!!
SUCH a great 80’s movie and it has Patrick Dempsey in it - what more can you ask for?
Love all those movies!!!! I don’t think I could pick!
I love ALL of those movies! I also thought that she should have ended up with Duckie instead of (*gasp!*) Blaine! What a terrible name.
How about ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’? Supposedly, it was made after Pretty in Pink so John Hughes could get a movie where the quirky main character ends up with the dorky character from the wrong side of the tracks. Not as good as Pretty in Pink, but still cute. And I’m also for Sixteen Candles and Better of Dead, one of my faves!
Ah see, I love the girls who read this blog! You’re all John Cusack loving Duckie supporters like me! Hehehe.
@Christine: I’m an adult now so I know better, but when I was little, I actually liked this movie. At the end where they dance to the Howard the Duck song? Classic!
@sillyinphilly: Ah Heathers. I can’t look at mineral water now without thinking of that movie.
@MissSauce: I have seriously seen Clueless like three times in the last two months! I desperately wanted to add the song from the end credits (Tenderness by General Public) to our playlist, but I couldn’t find it on iTunes. Boo!
@kim: I somehow always forget about this movie, but I would be willing to watch it since it does have the Cus in it.
@Jackie: I probably would have gone for “Gee, I’m really sorry your mom blew up, Ricky” but I like yours too. Actually I heard from a friend of mine who was in High Fidelity (the “is this the new Green Day?” girl), that he actually wasn’t that nice in person, but I really don’t want that to be true since 15 year old me still has a crush on 20 year old him.
@megs08: The Otis Redding thing totally made me love him too!
@Vivian: I did actually know that! I read somewhere that they had to reshoot the ending like months later and Andrew McCarthy was shooting a skinhead movie at the time and Molly Ringwald had a cold so they slapped a wig on him and shot them from far away so they didn’t have to kiss that much.
Anyway ladies, I wrote a bunch of blog posts for the rest of the week, but this is my last time on the Bee before I get married so I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for your support and for making this whole process a lot of fun for me. I have like three girlfriends in real life, but I feel like I’ve made hundreds more talking with all of you.
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Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto
Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist
Engagement Date: May 4, 2007
Wedding Date: June 28, 2008
Blogging Since: September 18, 2007
Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property.
About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be
the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
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