Bridal translator: While this is a momentous day for you and your nearest and dearest, your wedding day to a majority of your guests is, just another wedding, one of several each of them will attend in their lifetimes.

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"A wedding marks the first day of the rest of your life, " says a dictatorial wedding planner played by Candice Bergen.

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But to be truthful, the more Vegas wedding chapels you see, the less you may be inclined to entrust them with the happiest day of your life.

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