The Wedding Singer takes place in 1985.
Adam Sandler plays Robbie Hart, a wedding singer whose fiancée leaves him at the altar. He later develops a relationship with Julia Sullivan, played by Drew Barrymore, who is engaged to another man. The film uses its 1985 setting as a major part of its identity, incorporating period clothing, hairstyles, music, and references to contemporary pop culture.
The setting is sometimes confused with the film’s 1998 release date. The story is deliberately set thirteen years earlier, making the contrast between the production period and the characters’ world especially clear. Frank Coraci directed the movie, and it became an important early romantic-comedy pairing for Sandler and Barrymore. They later reunited in 50 First Dates and Blended, but those films have different characters and settings.