[1][2] On June 4, 1948, The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote: “For a movie with as inauspicious a title as The Bride Goes Wild… this patchwork of sentiment and slapstick is a surprisingly genial little show.

For the most salient aspect of the story is its positive progression from a point of comparative intelligence at the beginning to reckless disorder at the end.”[3] Josephine O'Neill praised the film in her July 18, 1949, review in the Daily Telegraph: “MGM's moonstruck pair, Van Johnson and June Allyson, become surprisingly engaging comedians in this frivolous comedy.

Sometimes his slapstick is enormously successful — as when the orphanage kids submit Van and his harassed publisher (Hume Cronyn) to an Indian raid.

The result is generally fetching, with livelier dialogue than usual; and one of the prettiest tipsy scenes from Miss Allyson that you could imagine.

[5] Turner Classic Movies presented The Bride Goes Wild on October 7, 2015 in commemoration of what would have been Allyson's 98th birthday.