I’m watching four weddings and a funeral

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I’m watching four weddings and a funeral for the first time since I was about 15 and I have questions. When did everyone stop wearing hats to weddings and why are so many people (Carrie mainly) wearing white to weddings

I always thought Scarlett had been found asleep under a table after a party at some point before the film and just never left. I must have read it on IMDB (screenshot attached). TBH, the relationship between Matthew and Gareth is a little problematic really, if Gareth was a lecturer when Matthew was a student at the same university.

i was 14 when FWAAF was released but I don’t remember ever being surprised that Matthew and Gareth were a couple (I didn’t realise how they met until much later)

I’m late fifties. My friends and family of my generation absolutely still wear hats (not fascinators) to traditional church weddings.

I wouldn’t for a venue-based wedding or a wedding abroad though.

Maybe Carrie was written for the American audience - possibly to them she's the height of sophistication and charm, and they completely understand how and why all the rather backward British people would have been so enamoured with her? And don't realise we all think she's rude, boring and immoral!

And I don't think I noticed Matthew and Garath were a couple until the funeral, when their friends figured it out. But then I would have been 13/14 and not particularly worldly-wise...

Still hoping to turn into Fiona when I grow up, I assume she wasn't married off to anyone in the end because who would be good enough for her? (Except maybe the future king!)

Fi married a guards officer (there is a post credit, or end credit recap of all of them)

What does RP-speaking mean??

I get the point you’re making and completely agree….. but I’ve spent ages trying to work out what RP stands for and it’s driving me mad 🤣🤣

Received Pronunciation.

No. That was Hen/Duckface.

Fi was pictured in a photo with Prince Charles!

Crosspost!

so many lines i like

skulk in the corridor for one

i think Scarlet marries a very tall canadian mountie, or something

@OtherS I read your edited post - we said the same thing almost word for word 😄

@EleanorReally think he was a Texan, hence her cowboy hat cliche 😅

That's why I deleted it rather than let it stand, it looked like I just copied your answer, which would have been weird 😂

Texan i think I have recollection of a stetson 😀

Not weird - great minds and all that! 😉

Watched this with my mid-teen DDs recently and midway through the funeral scene they both turned and looked at me with tears streaming down their faces and said "you never said it was going to be this sad". I just shrugged and said "and a funeral. That's the clue".

That was after they had seen Hugh Grant : "That's Hugh Grant? What happened to him?"

oh sorry! i'm obvs due a rewatch!

Oh, acerbic Fiona wouldn’t have the slightest patience with Prince Charles!

Though it’s never entirely clearly why she’s been in love with hapless, bumbling Hugh Grant-Charles for years, either. I can see he would have been a gorgeous youth, as HG was himself in his Oxford days, but her brother Tom infuriates her with his faux pas and amiable dopiness, and HG-Charles isn’t all that different from him, only without the pots of inherited cash and Palladian mansion.

Thanks, OP, now I'm watching it too - this thread has reminded me of so many cute little details!

I presume it was an infatuation born at university, when he was a dreamy floppy-haired romantic. But I can't imagine she would have enjoyed the reality as much as the fantasy, they would have been a fairly odd couple and I think he would have immediately driven her mad. But most of the couples were a bit odd really, Charles and Carrie made no sense at all. Very strange it's such a good film when so much just really doesn't work.

I don’t think Scarlett is supposed to be Charles’
sister. People may be mixing the relationship up with the one from Notting Hill, where Hugh Grant’s character does have a sister, played by Emma Chambers, who I always think is a similar type to Charlotte Coleman.

Richard Curtis loves adding a disrupting American to his very British rom-coms. The most successful IMO is About Time, where Rachel McAdams has oodles of chemistry with Domhnall Gleeson. A world away from Awful Andie…

Ah yes. That will be the confusion. Pretty much the same character

That’s an AI overview. The same thing will tell you Oreo is a palindrome…..

R P is Received Pronunciation. A posh accent.

Agree. I think it’s partly because the ensemble cast in general, and even the small or non-speaking parts (Charles’ exes, Hen, Bernard and Lydia, Lydia’s parents, the bemused elderly man, the ‘damn fine filly’ man, the cool older Bette Davis-type woman who asks Fiona if she’s a lesbian, the folk singers, the nasty woman in the shop where Carrie and Hamish’s wedding list is, the ‘she’s no longer my girlfriend’ doofus’ etc) are so solid. I could do without Rowan Atkinson as the comic priest, though.

Well, Scarlett bags Hot Chester the Texan, whereas poor Thingie in Notting Hill gets Rhys Ifans, a penniless wastrel in greying y-fronts…