History Film / FourWeddingsAndAFuneral

** At the end, Tom ends up married to a distant cousin (daughter of his second cousin, whom he'd only met once, 25 years before).

** At the end, Tom ends up married to a distant cousin.

** In the script he and Scarlett would have been late to [[spoiler:''Gareth's funeral'']] as well, save that David told him the wrong time to make sure he got there early.

* ClusterFBomb: Charles (and, in some cases, Scarlett) drops several of these.

* MoralEventHorizon: Even '''Fiona''', who hates Henrietta (or Duckface as she calls her), feels sympathy for her when Charles rejects her at the altar.

* ImStandingRightHere: Charles and his exes are joking about one of his other exes--"Miss Piggy and her mother was Mrs. Piggy!"--when the woman in question--who's been sitting next to Charles the whole time--angrily snaps "We've both lost a lot of weight since then!"

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Since Bernard, the groom at the second wedding, comes from an aristocratic family, his second middle name, St John, is pronounced "sinjen". Gerald, the vicar, pronounces it as written, though Bernard uses the correct pronunciation when he "repeats" it; the second time, the vicar mumbles something that sounds like "Siddle", and the third time, he skips Bernard's middle names entirely, silently nodding and making a hand gesture twice to represent the two missing middle names.

* {{Irony}}: After the titular four weddings (the final of which is aborted) Charles asks Carrie is NOT marrying him is something she's like to do for the rest of her life.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Fiona, when a guest at Bernard and Lydia's wedding wonders if the reason she isn't married is because she is a lesbian (finding it a more interesting follow-up than "Haven't met the right chap?"), admits, "Well, I ''was'' a [[ExperimentedInCollege lesbian once at school]], but only for about fifteen minutes." and it's left unclear if she's attracted to women or it was just a one-time thing. If the viewer goes for the simplest explanation (oh gosh, why go with simple if you can make it complicated), it was a one-time thing, that crush in school was just that and the love of her life was Charles after all. And then she ended up with Prince Charles. Both Charlses are rather male, all things considered.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Fiona, when a guest at Bernard and Lydia's wedding wonders if the reason she isn't married is because she is a lesbian (finding it a more interesting follow-up than "Haven't met the right chap?"), admits, "Well, I ''was'' a [[ExperimentedInCollege lesbian once at school]], but only for about fifteen minutes." and it's left unclear if she's attracted to women or it was just a one-time thing.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Since Bernard, the groom at the second wedding, comes from an aristocratic family, his second middle name, St John, is pronounced "sinjen". Gerald, the vicar, pronounces it as written, though Bernard uses the correct pronunciation when he "repeats" it; the second time, the vicar mumbles something that sounds like "Siddle", and the third time, he skips Bernard's middle names entirely.

* InsatiableNewlyweds: Bernard and Lydia can't even wait until the end of the reception at their wedding to embark on a marathon sex session - which is unfortunate for Charles, who is already in the room and has to hide in the bathroom. Eventually, he gives up waiting for an appropriate moment to leave and simply appears holding a pencil and exclaiming "Found it!" before beating a hasty retreat. It seems marriage doesn't dull Bernard and Lydia's sexual appetites either, as they have ''six'' children by the time of "One Red Nose Day and a Wedding".

Charles (Grant) is a charming but gaffe-prone thirtysomething whose friends are getting married one after the other, with him as the most likely candidate to be best man. He has come to find attending weddings unbearably tedious, and he himself remains single (or, as an ex-girlfriend of his puts it, a "serial monogamist"). His circle of closest friends - his brother David (David Bower), his flatmate Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman), siblings Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Tom (James Fleet), and partners Matthew (John Hannah) and Gareth (Simon Callow) - are likewise all unmarried for various reasons.

One day, at yet another wedding, Charles meets Carrie (Andie [=MacDowell=]), and he has a one-night stand with her. When he meets her again at another wedding, he begins to think she might be the right one. Unfortunately, she's now engaged to someone else...

A one-off special catching up with the characters 25 years later, entitled "One Red Nose Day and a Wedding", aired as part of 2019's UsefulNotes/ComicRelief telethon. An American web miniseries based on the film with the same name was released that year from {{Creator/Hulu}} as well.

!!Contains examples of:

* WeddingDay: Four of them, three hilarious in one way or another. [[spoiler: No rings, trainee vicar, groom having second thoughts]].

* NextThingTheyKnew

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Showing all of Charles' group of friends--even Henrietta!--as HappilyMarried and he and Carrie with a baby.

* ButNotTooBi: Fiona, when a guest at Bernard and Lydia's wedding wonders if the reason she isn't married is because she is a lesbian (finding it a more interesting follow-up than "Haven't met the right chap?"), admits, "Well, I ''was'' a [[SchoolgirlLesbians lesbian once at school]], but only for about fifteen minutes."

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Fiona. "I was a lesbian once at school, but only for about fifteen minutes."

A one-off special catching up with the characters 25 years later, entitled "One Red Nose Day and a Wedding", aired as part of 2019's UsefulNotes/ComicRelief telethon.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Since Bernard, the groom at the second wedding, comes from an aristocratic family, his second middle name, St John, is pronounced "sinjen". Gerald, the vicar, pronounces it as written, though Bernard uses the correct pronunciation when he "repeats" it; every other time Gerald has to say Bernard's name, he just mumbles "St John".

* ClusterFBomb: Dropped rather... curiously by Charles. See the main article.

Charles is a charming but gaffe-prone thirtysomething whose friends are getting married one after the other, with him as the most likely candidate to be best man. He has come to find attending weddings unbearably tedious, and he himself remains single (or, as an ex-girlfriend of his puts it, a "serial monogamist"). One day, at yet another wedding, he meets Carrie ([=Andie MacDowell=]), and he has a one-night stand with her.

When he meets her again at another wedding, he begins to think she might be the right one. Unfortunately, she's now engaged to someone else...

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Charles and Carrie, in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, as well as the couple married at the first wedding, seen briefly at Charles']].

* DreadfulMusician: The amateur duo at the first wedding. They're even listed as "Frightful Folk Duo" in the credits. One of them, Nicola Walker, returns in "One Red Nose Day and a Wedding", this time accompanied by Music/SamSmith - and they're still both credited as "Very Bad Singer".

* LastSecondWordSwap:
-->"Bit of a poor show you not having a stag night."\\
"We did! We did... We didn't think it was a very good idea in this day and age."

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Tom fully admits to this. "The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: people are less suspicious of you." He comes across as a complete buffoon at the first two weddings, but takes charge when [[spoiler:Gareth collapses at the third wedding]].

* UpperClassTwit: Tom. When Charles jokes that his family is England's richest, Tom corrects him: they're only seventh. He's also dim-witted (though this is at least partly ObfuscatingStupidity), as exemplified by his exchange with fellow upper-class twit Bernard after the first wedding as they take their own pictures of the happy couple and their families:
-->'''Tom:''' Splendid, I thought! What did you think?\\

* WeddingsForEveryone: Everyone, interestingly, ''but'' [[spoiler:Charles and Carrie.]]