20 Best Black Wedding Movies You Need to Watch
There are unfortunately not a lot of Black wedding movies, yet, in this article, we are bringing you the best ones we could find. Some of the movies on this list will be completely about Black weddings, while in some, Black weddings will just be small parts of the movies.
Still, if you are looking for Black wedding movies, you are in the right place. This article is the biggest resource for movies about Black marriages. So, check them out below and choose your next watch.
The Wood (1999)
Roland (Taye Diggs) is getting married in a few hours. No matter how much he loves his fiancee, he can’t forget his great love from high school, Tanya (Tamala Jones).
Together with his longtime friends Mike (Omar Epps) and Slim (Richard T. Jones), he reminisces about the old days and growing up in Inglewood in the 80s. At one point, Roland decides to go and visit Tanya, and his friends follow him, in order to get him back in time to the altar.
Not Left in Vegas (2020)
Not Left In Vegas is the Hilarious new comedy from Kamal Smith that shows what really happens on the road to saying ‘I Do”. So buckle up and get ready to witness all the love, drama and secrets that come to light when planning a wedding.
Guess Who (2005)
Percy and Marilyn Jones throw a big party for their 25th wedding anniversary, while their daughter Theresa brings her boyfriend Simon home for her parents to meet. The Joneses, who are Black, do not know that their daughter’s boyfriend is white, because Theresa kept it from them, fearing their prejudices.
Also, Theresa and Simon plan to announce their engagement, which their parents know nothing about. Percy is very critical of Simon, while Marilyn accepts him much better. Percy, who is normally distrustful of any of his daughter’s possible boyfriends, begins to investigate Simon and learns that the young man has recently lost his job without telling Theresa…
Always a Bridesmaid (2019)
Corina is stuck being everyone’s bridesmaid. Deciding to no longer be a lady-in-waiting, she bravely re-enters the dating scene. Will she always be a bridesmaid or could the love of her life be right around the corner?
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
A writer is worried about his future after losing his job at a university, and is also wrestling with the prospect of imminent fatherhood. He and his wife attend a Christmas reunion of his old friends from college, only to find all the guests have personal crises of their own to deal with.
Comedy drama sequel, starring Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut and Terrence Howard.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
An unusual loving couple arrives by plane in San Francisco. What makes them unusual is the difference in skin color: he is Black, Dr. John Prentice (S. Poitier), and she is white, Joey Drayton (K. Houghton). John and Joey arrive unannounced to visit her parents, to inform them that they intend to get married after a short relationship.
Cautious John is afraid of how his parents will receive the news about their relationship, but enthusiastic and free-spirited Joey, raised in a liberal family, is not afraid of anyone’s reactions. The girl’s parents, mother Christina (K. Hepburn) and father Matt Drayton (S. Tracy) are shocked when they meet John. Although they have liberal beliefs and are enthusiastic about him as a person, they need time to accept the new situation.
The mother soon accepts her daughter’s decision, but the father needs more time. And there isn’t much of it because the young couple plans to fly to Europe that same evening. Before that, a family dinner awaits them, to which Joey invited John’s parents, who live in Los Angeles…
The Wedding Party (2016)
A lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu.
The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai (2017)
Dozie’s (Banky Wellington) elder brother, Nonso (Enyinna Nwigwe), has continued his romance with Deardre (Daniella Down), Dunni’s (Adesua Etomi) bridesmaid. Nonso takes Deadre on a date in Dubai and proposes marriage by accident.
After a disastrous traditional engagement ceremony in Lagos, Nonso’s family and Deardre’s aristocratic British family reluctantly agree to a wedding in Dubai.
Our Family Wedding (2010)
“It’s our marriage, it’s their wedding.” It’s the first lesson for all newly engaged couples, and Lucia (America Ferrera) and Marcus (Lance Gross) are no exception. In Our Family Wedding, they learn the hard way that the road to marriage is full of family feuds. When they return from college and suddenly announce their imminent wedding, they soon realize that their fathers – normally outspoken competitors with huge egos – can do a great deal of damage to their special day.
With constant insults and losing tempers, the big question is whether the alpha-dads (Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia) will manage to see their children down the aisle in one piece. Lucia’s mother (Diana Maria Riva) is busy planning the wedding of her dreams, and the only sane person in this company is Angela (Regina King), the best friend and lawyer of the groom’s father, who manages to keep her composure when the madness reaches its peak.
With only a few weeks left to plan the entire wedding, Lucia and Marcus will discover the true meaning of love and that there is truth in the saying – when you marry someone, you marry a whole family!
It’s Her Day (2016)
It’s Her Day is a comedy which tells the story of a couple who are about to get married and the class struggle to get a high end wedding by the bride and her family. Bovi Ugboma plays Victor, the newly engaged bachelor who takes it upon himself to give his materialistic fiancée, Nicole (Ini Dima-Okojie) a fairy tale wedding. Victor feels the wedding should be simple but Nicole on the other hand wants a blog-worthy wedding with top artists present.
The bride together with her mother (Shaffy Bello) and sisters plan a huge society budget wedding which is out of Victor’s pay grade. From hiring Kelechi Amadi Obi for pictures and contacting Davido, Wizkid, Timi Dakolo, Basket Mouth, Julius Agwu, to the wedding, paying 2 million Naira for a wedding hall, among other hilarious demands from Nicole’s family, Victor couldn’t help but find a “Warri” smart way to meet their demands.
Think Like a Man (2012)
The marital balance is shaken in the relationships of four couples when the wives begin to apply the advice from Steve Harvey’s popular book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” in their desire to get more from their husbands.
When men realize that their wives have discovered their relationship textbook, they realize that offense is the best defense and figure out a way to use the advice to their advantage. And so begins the war of the sexes…
Think Like a Man Too (2014)
In the highly anticipated sequel, inspired by Steve Harvey’s bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, all the couples are back at the Las Vegas wedding. But plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their mishaps land them in compromising situations that could prevent the big event.
Black Woman’s Guide to Getting Married (2007)
Through a series of hilarious vignettes and running commentary, this lighthearted indie presented by Jean-Claude La Marre explores the challenges of getting hitched and faced by contemporary African-American women.
The Best Man (1999)
Oli Pickering (Stuart Townsend) is a literary aspirant who received a large advance for a novel after only two chapters had been written. From that moment on, he found himself in a creative block and eventually accepted a job as an assistant in the women’s self-help department of a London publishing house, whose boss tormented him.
Suddenly, a former friend from college, Dyemes, invites him to be his best man at his wedding, even though they haven’t seen each other in years. At a party organized as a preparation for the wedding, Oli meets the bride-to-be Sara, who immediately likes him with her attractive sweetness and kindness, as he likes her.
Oli’s roommate and best friend since childhood, Mari, realizes what’s going on, just as she knows that James is a womanizer and a calculator who marries out of interest, so she tries to bring Oli and Sarah together…
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
Four married couples, all friends from college, decide to spend a short winter vacation together in a beautiful mountain log cabin in Colorado. Although ready for a well-deserved vacation, they all bring their own problems with them: Diane’s husband Terry (T. Perry) is fed up with her (S. Leal) ambitions, overwork and avoidance of sex; Gavin’s (M. Yoba) wife, psychologist Patricia (J. Jackson), is busy publishing her latest book; the marriage of Angela (T. Smith) and Marcus (M. J. White) seems very stormy, at times even ugly, because Angela is rude and aggressive; obese Sheila (J. Scott) suffers underestimation from her husband Mike (R. T. Jones), who openly despises her for being fat.
The avalanche of discoveries will be triggered by Trina (D. Boutte), a beautiful, sassy and seductive loner, and sheriff Troy (L. Rucker) will be in the company, who will intervene not only as a sheriff…
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Four couples go on their traditional but well-deserved vacation to the Bahamas to analyze the current situations in their marriages. However, their intimate weekend will soon be disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband who has one sole intention: to win back his former, now remarried, wife.
Things My Daddy Should’ve Told Me (2016)
Andrea has the perfect husband and the perfect career. Her marriage to Troy Daniels is ripped from a storybook. But, something is missing. Things My Daddy Should’ve Told Me follows three best friends – with an unbreakable bond – on an emotional journey to find the love, support, and knowledge that they should’ve had all along. Can they stop the generational curses before they set in? Or is it too late?
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Gifted scientist Sherman Klump (E. Murphy), a good-natured and rather clumsy fat man, believes that with the help of attractive colleague Denise Gaines (J. Jackson), and to the delight of Dean Richmond (L. Miller), he has finally come close to perfecting the formula for creating an elixir for rejuvenation. At the same time, his recently created alter ego, the chatty, self-centered and arrogant Buddy Love (also E. Murphy) creates more and more problems and inconveniences in his daily life.
After Denise admits to him that despite all her flaws she really likes him, Sherman musters up the courage and proposes to her. When she happily agrees, a delighted Sherman decides he must get rid of Buddy as soon as possible. Having managed to remove all of Buddy’s genes from his genome, Sherman has no idea that a playful dog came into contact with them, accidentally leaving his hair in the genes. Because of this, without Sherman’s knowledge, Buddy soon materializes again.
This time he also has some dog traits. And when an influential pharmaceutical company offers Sherman and Denise $150 million to buy their formula, Buddy lowers the price on his own and decides to steal the formula. Sherman’s father Cletus Klump (E. Murphy again) discovers that Sherman’s elixir temporarily restores his youth and sexual power. At the same time, introducing Denise to his picturesque family, Sherman realizes that by removing Buddy’s genes, he has initiated the unstoppable process of his brain cells dying.
Brown Sugar (2002)
Music critic Sidney Shaw aka Syd (S. Lathan) leaves Los Angeles where she wrote for the L.A. Times to take a new, more challenging job in New York. Her childhood best friend Andre Romulus Ellis aka Dre (T. Diggs) works there as a music producer. The two have been big fans of hip-hop since their elementary school days, but despite feeling affection for each other from an early age, they have never been in a romantic relationship.
Dre plans to marry the beautiful lawyer Reese (N. Ari Parker), while Syd sets her sights on the handsome basketball player Kelby (B. Kodjoe). When Dre begins to doubt his career, and at the same time Syd arrives in New York, their relationship will be put to the test again…
Jumping the Broom (2011)
When the couple is faced with disgruntled future relatives, pressure from friends and revelations of dirty secrets, they begin to doubt whether they should get married at all.
The New Black (2013)
The New Black is an award-winning documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.
