June is wedding season, and in Friday’s Go section, several Post-dispatch staffers cite their favorite wedding-themed movies. Here is my own annotated list, in alphabetical order:

“Bell, Book and Candle” (1958): As in another of my favorite flicks, “Love with the Proper Stranger,” there’s no actual wedding here, just an undecided bridegroom. Kim Novak, as a beatnik witch who enchants Jimmy Stewart on the eve of his marriage to another woman, embodies the irrational attraction that so many of us call love. (A year previously, Novak had worked her magic on Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s decidedly more disturbing “Vertigo.”) Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester and Ernie Kovacs round out a great cast.

“Bubble Boy” (2001): Even before it was released, this comedy was reviled as being insensitive to the sickly, but it’s time for a reappraisal. As the young man who is shielded from germs by a plastic enclosure and a protective mother, Jake Gyllenhaal is sweetly naive, and his cross-country trek to stop his beloved from marrying an arrogant schmuck is heroism worthy of Pee Wee Herman.

“The Graduate” (1967): When neophyte rebel Dustin Hoffman disrupts the sell-out wedding of soulmate Katharine Ross, it’s the rare case in a movie where the intruder gets cussed out instead of being allowed to speak his piece. (see “Bubble Boy.”) In one of the great, unresolved endings in Hollywood history, Ben and Elaine manage to escape—only to discover on the getaway bus that they have nothing to say to each other. Oops.

“The Heartbreak Kid” (1972): This painfully funny flick, an official companion to “The Graduate,” begins and ends with marriages that are clearly doomed. When a honeymooning go-getter (Charles Grodin) ditches his coarse Jewish bride (Jeannie Berlin) for a blonde WASP (Cybil Shepherd) he meets in Miami Beach, the Me Decade commences with a cringe. Skip the needless remake starring Ben Stiller. This classic was directed by Elaine May, the real-life mother of Oscar nominee Berlin and the improv-comedy partner of “Graduate” director Mike Nichols.

“The Long, Long Trailer” (1953): Honeymooning through the mountain west in a hulking trailer, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz learn that marriage is a journey–one that goes smoother if you don’t collect souvenir boulders along the way.  Lucy and Desi were taking a detour from their TV series, and with its Route 66 locales and swank sportswear, the movie captures the vibe of mid-century America better than the television show. Director Vincent Minnelli contrasted the old and new Americas by shooting one claustrophobic scene on a Victorian streetscape he had used for “Meet Me In St. Louis.”

Here’s the happy couple, breezing along with the breeze: