"(SIGHING)" "I used to think a wedding was a simple affair." "Boy and girl meet, they fall in love." "He buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say, "I do."" "I was wrong." "That's getting married." "A wedding is an entirely different proposition." "I know." "I've just been through one." "Not my own, my daughter's." "Annie Banks MacKenzie." "That's her married name." "MacKenzie." "I'll be honest with you." "(PEBBLES FALLING)" "When I bought this house 1 7 years ago, it cost less than this blessed event in which Annie Banks became Annie Banks MacKenzie." "I'm told that one day I'll look back on all this with affection and nostalgia." "I hope so." "You fathers will understand." "You have a little girl." "An adorable little girl who looks up to you and adores you in a way you could never have imagined." "I remember how her little hand used to fit inside mine, how she used to love to sit on my lap and lean her head against my chest." "She said I was her hero." "Then she wants to get her ears pierced, and wants you to drop her off a block before the theater." "Next thing you know, she's wearing eye shadow and high heels." "From that moment on, you're in a constant state of panic." "You worry about her going out with the wrong guys, the kind of guys who only want one thing." "And you know what that is, because it's the thing you wanted when you were their age." "Then she gets a little older, and you quit worrying about her meeting the wrong guy, and you worry about her meeting the right guy." "And that's the biggest fear of all, because then you lose her." "Before you know it, you're sitting all alone in a big, empty house wearing rice on your tux, wondering what happened to your life." "It was just six months ago that it happened here." "Just six months ago" "that the storm broke." "(THUNDERCLAP)" "GEORGE:" "Annie had been studying architecture for the past semester in Rome." "I was at work, walking through the factory." "I own a company called Sidekicks." "We manufacture athletic shoes." "Anyway, I remember how preoccupied I was that day." "Sorry, Mr. Banks." "My fault, Grace." "Annie had never been that far away, and she was due back any minute." "I couldn't wait to see the kid." "George, she landed." "My daughter's been flying for 1 1 hours." "I'm not wild about her being in the air." "You understand." "It's better when they're on the ground." "GEORGE:" "I've always been a concerned parent." "I'm big on car seats, seat belts, bedtimes, calling when you get somewhere, never running with a sharp object." "What can I say?" "I'm a father." "Worrying comes with the territory." "Is Nina picking her up?" "You're gonna meet them?" "Yeah, I'm going home right now." "I don't know where my keys are." "Here." "And sign this." "Okay." "Hat." "Okay, thanks." "Now..." "Oh!" "Bring her by." "Bye." "GEORGE:" "I left early because I had something to pick up for Annie." "We live in a small town in Southern California called San Marino." "I love this town, and not just because it's a place where people still smile at each other, but because it hasn't changed much in the past 25 years." "Since I'm not a guy who's big on change, this town fits me like a glove." "I got Annie's ten-speed all cleaned up and polished." "New seats, new tires." "I couldn't wait to show it to her." "This is our house, 24 maple Drive." "Annie was just in grammar school when we bought it." "A few years later, we got a surprise package, our son, Matt." "I love this house." "I Iove that I taught my kids to ride their bikes in the driveway." "I Iove that I slept with them in tents in the backyard." "I love that we carved our initials in the tree out front." "This house is warm in the winter, cool in summer and looks spectacular with Christmas lights." "It's a great house, and I never want to move." "But the thing I like best about this house are the voices I hear when I walk through the door." "Hey, hi." "You got out early." "Where is she?" "She's unpacking." "She looks..." "She looks so fabulous." "Just fabulous." "Different." "Anyway, she can't wait to see you." "Different?" "MATT:" "Ciao, Papa." "Hey." "Annie brought me this candy from Rome." "Let's not get it on our furniture." "Matty." "The high-tops." "Hey, grazie." "(WITH ITALIAN ACCENT) Hey, you're welcome." "What do you mean, "different"?" "Oh..." "Annie." "Hi, Dad." "GEORGE:" "Hey, hey." "Oh, hi." "God, I missed you." "You look all lit up inside." "I feel all lit up inside." "We should go to Rome." "You two would love it." "It's the most romantic place on Earth." "You smell pretty good, too." "You like it?" "It was a present." "Doesn't she look incredible?" "I didn't recognize her." "Come on." "Dinner's on the stove." "Honey, you want to come?" "Hmm." "Now that we're under one roof, we have some very important items to discuss." "First on the list, who wants to go to the Laker game on Thursday?" "MATT:" "Me." "Definitely yes." "With your busy schedule, too." "Honey, I have inventory to do that night." "Thursday, sure." "Absolutely." "GEORGE:" "Okay." "NINA:" "Matty, could you use your fork?" "Number two," "Paul Simon is coming to the Forum, and I can get us great seats." "Um, yeah, sure." "All right." "Paul Simon's an "Um, yeah, sure."" "Which I believe translates to a "yes"?" "I'll call that guy." "Honey, could you please get that bottle of wine for me?" "Dad, wait." "Um, I don't know." "You don't want to see Paul Simon?" "I do." "It's just, um..." "What is it?" "Is something going on?" "Well..." "Yes." "Yeah, it is, Mom." "God, this is a hard thing to tell parents." "Especially when they're my parents." "Oh, God." "Honey, just say it." "What's the big deal?" "Yeah." "Okay. (LAUGHS)" "I met somebody in Rome." "Um, he's an American." "He's from LA, actually, and..." "His name's Bryan MacKenzie, and he's this completely wonderful, wonderful, amazing man." "And we started seeing each other." "A lot." "And, um..." "We fell in love." "(LAUGHING)" "It actually happened." "And, uh... we've decided to get married, which means that I'm engaged." "(LAUGHING) I'm engaged!" "I'm getting married!" "(SCREAMING, LAUGHING)" "MATT:" "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Well, my, my." "So..." "Oh, my." "And that's your engagement ring, huh?" "Yes, yes." "We got it at a flea market outside of Rome." "The guy we bought it from said it was at least 1 00 years old." "Wow." "So, Dad." "Stop it." "Say something." "I'm sorry." "What did you say?" "Dad, I met a man in Rome, and he's wonderful and brilliant, and we're getting married." "Mom, what's he doing?" "George." "George, what is it?" "(CHUCKLING) Well, it's just..." "This is ridiculous." "You're too young to get married." "Too young?" "Dad, I'm 22." "That's a year older than Mom was when you guys got married." "That is absolutely not true." "No, you're absolutely wrong." "You were this age when I married you?" "No, I was younger." "I was this age when she was born." "That..." "That doesn't matter." "Times have changed." "Your mother was mature." "Twenty-two isn't what it used to..." "Matt, turn on the air conditioner." "It's hot." "I thought you didn't believe in marriage," "I thought it meant that a woman lost her identity." "I thought you wanted to get a job before you settled down to earn money" "and be your own person." "All right, hold on." "I didn't think I believed in marriage, until I met Bryan." "Bryan's not like any other guy." "I want to be married to him." "And I'm not gonna lose my identity with him, because he's not some overpowering macho guy." "He's like you, Dad." "Except he's brilliant." "He happens to love the fact that I want to be an architect." "He wants me to design a house for us to live in." "He said he'd move anywhere I got a job." "Give me a little credit, George." "I'm not gonna marry some ape who wants me to wear go-go boots and an apron." "I'm telling you, you'll love him." "He's a genius." "And sweet." "And I..." "I love him more than anything in the world." "What does Bryan do?" "Who's Bryan?" "(BOTH SIGHING)" "I forgot his name." "He's an independent communications consultant." "Independent?" "Yes." "That's code for "unemployed." This is perfect." "You meet an unemployed, amazingly brilliant non-ape that I'm gonna have to support." "I'm gonna have to hire him and fire some hard-working guy with three kids because my son-in-law, the independent communications consultant, can't get a job anywhere else." "No wonder he'll move anywhere you get a job." "You're not getting married." "That's it, and that's final." "And I don't like you calling me George." "When did this start?" "Daddy, what is wrong with you?" "What?" "You're happy about this?" "Please, will you stop acting like a lunatic father and go and talk to her before she runs out that door, marries this kid, and we never see her again?" "All right." "Kid?" "How do you know he's a kid?" "He could be 45 years old." "(BALL BOUNCING)" "An independent communications consultant does not mean he's an unemployable non-ape." "Bryan happens to be a computer genius." "Companies send him all over the world hooking up systems." "Major banks and corporations send him to Tokyo and Brazil and Geneva." "He's a genius." "You mentioned that." "How old is this genius?" "Twenty-six." "Not 45." "You guys still think I can't hear you when you're one room away." "If you love him so much, I know I'll love him, too." "Bryan..." "MacKenzie." "Bryan MacKenzie." "Yeah." "I can't wait to meet him." "Good, 'cause he'll be here in an hour to meet you." "I suppose you're not in the mood for a little one-on-one." "Daddy, I'm wearing heels." "You've come to the right place." "I've got sunshine" "On a cloudy day" "GEORGE:" "Aw!" "When it's cold outside" "I've got the month of May" "I guess you'd say" "What can make me feel this way?" "My girl" "My girl, my girl" "talkin' about my girl" "My girl" "Ooh, hoo, ooh" "So sweet!" "Hey, hey, hey" "Dad..." "Oh, traveling!" "I don't need no money" "Fortune or fame" "I got all the riches, baby" "One man can claim" "Eight-up." "Are you ready?" "Come on." "I guess you'd say" "No!" "What can make me feel this way?" "Hold on." "No, no, no." "My girl" "My girl, my girl" "talkin' about my girl" "Yes!" "TaIkin' about my girl" "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day" "My girl I've even got the month of May" "You're not really getting married?" "Dad, stop." "So can you see him?" "What does he look like?" "He just drove up." "And?" "He drove too fast." "(SIGHING)" "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "Wait." "So, George, do you want to meet him?" "Do I want to meet him?" "(SIGHING) -(DOORBELL RINGS)" "Oh, hello." "Hi." "Hi, I'm Bryan MacKenzie." "Good." "I'm Nina Banks." "BRYAN:" "Yes, I recognize you from your picture." "Come in." "The one Annie had with her." "Yes." "Good." "Come in." "Okay." "Hello, Mr. Banks." "GEORGE:" "It was the first time I ever hated the sound of my own name." "Hi." "I've heard so much about you." "It's great to finally meet you, sir." ""Sir." Two words now crossed my mind." ""Brown" and "nose."" "Annie talks about you so much, I feel like I know you." "Bryan." "Oh, Annie." "Oh." "Oh." "So, this is him." "Oh, he's just, just..." "A little nervous." "It's one of those situations you read about, meeting the in-laws." "But you two seem great." "I'm sure I have nothing to be nervous about." "But still... (STAMMERING) Let's, uh, go into the, uh..." "Uh, great." "I think he's adorable." "I don't like him." "Oh, George." "He's wearing Nikes." "(SIGHING)" "Mom, where's Matty?" "He fell asleep watching TV." "You'll meet him tomorrow." "Okay." "Sit down." "So..." "Um, how did you two, uh, meet?" "Oh, we were the only two people at this revival house in Rome, for a midnight showing of Bringing Up Baby." "We kept hearing each other laugh." "In all the same places." "When it was over, I picked him up." "No, I went over to you to ask directions." "Then one thing led to another." "ANNIE:" "For the next three months, we never left each other's sight." "We went to all these museums, great concerts, the opera." "We traveled to the country." "Remember that place we stayed in Tuscany?" "BRYAN:" "With the, uh..." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "Suffice it to say it was not a four-star hotel." "You have a very brave daughter." "Bryan, what is it exactly that you do?" "Annie was saying something about computers." "Yes, I'm an independent communications consultant." "Yeah, that part I heard." "Sounds fake?" "Like it's not real." "We wouldn't say that." "That's what my dad said when he first heard what I was doing." "But what it is, in this case," "Pacific International Bank sent me to Rome to hook up the X-Dot connection to their European subsidiary." "Uh, all European computers communicate on the Dot-25 Network." "And since Pacific International is an LA-based firm, they wanted to interface with standard European protocol." "So, I set them up." "Mmm." "And why are you independent?" "What was that?" "Because no one can afford to keep him on staff." "Well, that's true, basically, but..." "You know, driving down here," "I tried to put myself in your place." "George." "Your daughter comes home after four months, you couldn't wait to see her, and she shocks you with the news that she's getting married." "And to somebody you've never met before." "I'm sure that must've been pretty um, heavy." "To use a word from your generation." "(ANNIE LAUGHS)" "I just want to say that I'm an upstanding citizen." "I've never been engaged before." "I've never really been in love before." "And I think Annie's the greatest person I've ever met." "And I can't wait to marry her and one day have children." "Grandchildren." "And I'm gonna do my best to be supportive of her dreams." "She's a very gifted architect." "I'm just thrilled that I met her." "I love your daughter." "The feelings that I have for her are never gonna change." "I'm here to stay." "(CRYING) Oh, Honey." "Mom." "I'm so happy for you." "That's okay, Mr. Banks." "We don't have to hug." "Well, maybe later." "That was just..." "Just the best thing I've ever heard anybody say." "I meant it." "Oh, good." "I'm gonna take Bryan for a drive, show him San Marino." "You might want to put on a sweater." "It's okay." "I'm kinda warm." "Still, you've been on a plane..." "Dad, I'm fine." "It is kinda cold." "It is?" "All right." "I'll get my jacket." "GEORGE:" "Right then I realized, my day had passed." "She'll always love me, of course, but not in the same way." "I was no Ionger the man in my little girl's life." "I was like an old shoe." "The kind we manufacture and get excited about and then, after a few years, discontinue." "That was me now, Mr. Discontinued." "Mom?" "Don't wait up." "We might stop for a cappuccino." "Okay, fine." "Well, good night." "Good night." "Good night, Mr. Banks." "You can call him George." "Or Dad." "George will be fine." "Okay." "I'll say it next time I see you." "Drive carefully." "Don't forget to fasten your condom." "Dad!" "Seat belt!" "I meant seat belt." "I'm putting your father to bed." "This has been a very big night for him." "GEORGE:" "Bye." "Good night." "Have fun." "Bye." "NINA:" "Bye-bye." "Have fun." "This is a great kid." "It'll never last." "Wanna bet?" "Annie's much too spirited for this kid." "He's totally wrong for her." "I give it two months, tops." "One month." "This is the right guy." "I'm telling you, I feel it in my bones." "We're two lucky parents." "Lucky?" "His laugh was a giveaway." "It was phony, with "Ha, ha, ha," "Hee, hee, hee."" "I thought it was sincere." "What about that rehearsed speech he gave that was right out of a book?" ""How to Grease Your Mother-in-Law."" "You're off here." "I thought it was from his heart." "Why do you think I cried?" "Good question." "I don't know why either of you cried." "My voice." "Are my glands swollen?" "Let me see." "No, honey." "What about how he kept touching her?" "What do you mean?" "What do you mean, what do I mean?" "He couldn't keep his hands off." "Like when we were engaged, except that wasn't all you couldn't keep off me." "That's different." "We never acted that way at your parents'." "Oh!" "You want me to name all the rooms we did it in at my parents' house?" "That was different." "We were like two imbeciles." "It's our child we're talking about." "Our child?" "I still think you see Annie as a 7-year-old in pigtails." "That just shows how much you know about me, because that is not at all how I see her." "Right." "A 7-year-old with pigtails." "Here's the thing." "We have no idea who this Bryan really is." "If that's his real name." "I mean, who knows?" "You know, maybe he already has a wife." "You read about these cases, men who have wives and families stashed all across the country." "He could be a professional con artist who meets innocents abroad, gives them a song and dance about being an independent whatever that was, then skips out after bilking them for all they're worth." "What are you doing?" "Getting ready for bed." "I suppose you're not interested that I believe I saw someone who looked like Bryan's twin on America's Most Wanted?" "You're right, I'm not." "George." "George, I thought he was great." "I liked him a lot." "And I really..." "Will you please stop making that face?" "I'm very happy for Annie." "I'm excited for her." "This is a big deal." "I think that we should at least hug." "This is great news." "(CHUCKLING) A wedding." "Father of the bride." "Can you believe it?" "GEORGE: 48 hours later, the wedding was still on." "We were on our way to BeI-Air to meet Bryan's folks." "I don't know why we have to have brunch with strangers." "Their son is marrying our daughter." "It's not an unusual custom, meeting the in-laws." "That's another thing." "I hate that expression, in-laws." "What does it mean?" "We're legally bound to these people?" "I don't want to be "in-lawed."" "Especially to people who live in Bel-Air." "What kind of people have brunch and live in Bel-Air?" "(LAUGHING) Rich people." "They probably live in the one shack in the middle of all these mansions." "Nice mood, George." "What?" "I'm in a good mood." "(NINA GROANING)" "NINA:" "Okay." "I think this is it." "Yeah." "NINA:" "Nice shack." "Worse." "The biggest house on the street." "We're related to pretentious snobs." "Just what we need." "You look very handsome." "Way too young to be in-lawed." "It really shouldn't matter." "We're not here to win their approval." "You changed your outfit five times." "You didn't try nine different shirts?" "Two." "Two long-sleeve, two short-sleeve." "JOHN:" "George, Nina, welcome." "Hi." "I'm John." "How do you do?" "Hi." "I'm Joanna." "Welcome to our house." "JOHN:" "Come in." "NINA:" "Thank you so much." "GEORGE:" "All I could think about was the size of this place." "We could've parked our whole house in the foyer." "JOHN:" "What a nerve-racking thing, meeting your future in-laws." "What a relief." "You two look perfectly normal." "NINA:" "Oh, well, I am." "I have to tell you, we got so nervous about today, about meeting the two of you," "I must have tried on three outfits." "Oh." "I changed my shirt four times." "Can you imagine anyone being that jerky?" "JOANNA:" "I thought we'd have lunch in here." "JOHN:" "Marta." "(SPEAKING SPANISH) ...in-laws, George and Nina Banks." "(SPEAKING SPANISH)" "Hello." "(DOG BARKING)" "Here's the rest of our family." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "Don't worry." "They look like killers, but they're friendly." "As long as you're relaxed, they're relaxed." "Hi, puppy, puppy, puppy." "(DOG BARKS)" "All right, that's enough." "Release!" "Good boys." "Why don't we all sit down?" "Please." "NINA:" "Oh, thank you." "JOHN:" "All right, here we go." "George." "Honey." "JOANNA:" "Thank you, sweetheart." "I don't know if the kids told you." "We were over in Europe, and we stopped in Rome to see Bryan." "So we got to spend a few days with Annie." "Boy, we just fell in love with her immediately." "Isn't she great?" "We couldn't be happier about this." "How did you take the news, George?" "Me?" "Uh, truthfully, I was a little surprised." "I was shocked." "So was I." "They'd only known each other a few months." "Exactly." "Annie's just finishing up school." "Absolutely." "Believe me, I tossed and turned over this one, but the bottom line is, they're in love." "They're over 21 , and whether they're rushing into this may be not for us to say." "GEORGE:" "Right." "Not for us to say." "We're only their parents." "I was about to say these words out loud when he hit me with..." "Sooner or later, you have to let your kids go and hope you brought them up right." "George, Nina." "Darling." "GEORGE:" "This guy was making too much sense." "Suddenly my shirt collar felt like it was starting to strangle me." "JOHN:" "To George and Nina, and a future of wonderful memories." "First, the wedding of our children, and the happiness we'll share watching their lives." "Then sharing the joy of our grandchildren together." "Birthday parties, graduation." "GEORGE:" "Now I knew where they got the expression," ""Like father, like son."" "I also knew I needed air." "Can you tell me where the restroom is?" "The one down here is a mess." "We're remodeling." "Try the one at the top of the stairs." "It's the seventh door on the left." "Second?" "Seventh." "Seventh." "Seventh." "Hmm." "(GROWLING)" "I'm leaving." "I'm relaxed, and I'm leaving." "(GROWLING)" "(BARKING)" "Relent." "Recoil." "Reverse." "(BARKING)" "I hope George hasn't gotten lost." "He'll be fine." "Okay." "Well, it's such a lovely sculpture." "Doesn't it have a wonderful sense of motion?" "I got it in Denmark." "Quite a lot of my family's from Copenhagen." "Is that right?" "JOHN:" "Doesn't it have a wonderful sense of balance?" "I was going to put it in the garden." "Actually, Bryan spent quite a few summers in Denmark." "He now speaks better Danish than Joanna." "(JOHN AND JOANNA LAUGH)" "Is that a fact?" "JOHN:" "We're planning a trip next summer." "I think this is a beautiful spread." "JOANNA:" "Thank you." "Well, should we wait for George?" "Maybe I should check on George." "No." "(GROWLING)" "(BARKING)" "Release!" "(SPLASHING)" "Oh, man." "(BARKING)" "ANNIE:" "Wow, no kidding?" "Really?" "It went great?" "Uh, better than great." "It just couldn't have gone better." "God, I'm so relieved." "I mean, who knows what can happen at these things, you know?" "Now I feel like the wedding's officially on." "Dad, that looks so great." "Bryan's mom called with the names of her immediate family." "Is this a joke?" "It's not a joke, and eight of them are from Copenhagen." "It's the bride's family's responsibility..." "Do you have any idea what a round-trip ticket from Denmark costs?" "Try eight round-trip tickets." "Actually, it's nine." "You see, Joanna's cousin is apparently a large woman, so... she needs two seats." "She can lop over into the aisle for all I care, 'cause there's no way I'm..." "BRYAN:" "Hi, everyone." "Sorry I'm late." "NINA:" "Hi." "GEORGE:" "Hello." "MATT:" "Hey, dude." "Here you are." "Oh, well, thank you." "Selv tak." "It's "you're welcome" in Danish." "Oh, thanks." "This looks great." "I hear you're a whiz at the barbecue, Dad." "Well, so have you two given any thought to what kind of wedding you want?" "Well, we've talked about it." "Yes?" "And what do you think?" "Big?" "Small?" "It can't be too big." "We don't have that many friends." "We're talking in the small vicinity?" "She didn't say small." "She said "not too big."" "Nothing fancy or overblown, right?" "Right." "BRYAN:" "Right." "So kind of the "less is more" theory, huh, Annie?" "Basically." "The reason I'm asking questions is I have an idea where we can have this lovely, not small, but not too big wedding." "You do?" "Where?" "At our favorite restaurant." "The place we've been eating at for 1 5 years." "The best." "The Steak Pit." "Dad, get serious." "I don't think you want the word "pit"" "on a wedding invitation, George." "Really, Dad." "A rib joint with sawdust on the floor isn't exactly what I had in mind for my wedding." "No offense." "What did you have in mind?" "The Beverly Hills Hotel?" "No." "Actually, what I'd like is to have my wedding in a church and have the reception here." "That's what I was hoping for." "Here?" "ANNIE:" "Don't I have the greatest dad in the world?" "Hi." "Hi." "Okay, here's the bride burger and the groom burger." "Enjoy 'em and go over and see the juggler." "ANNIE:" "It's my dream wedding." "A barbecue wedding." "This is better than The Steak Pit." "Yeah." "We'll get some picnic tables, crepe paper and balloons." "You know, invite all our best pals." "I'll make my famous guacamole." "A wedding at home." "This is a great idea." "(SIGHING)" "Great idea." "Picnic tables, balloons, you at the barbecue." "Oh, George." "What don't you like about that?" "Why have you been so crazy since Annie told you she's getting married?" "I haven't been acting crazy." "I've acted like any normal red-blooded American dad." "Normal?" "Uh-huh, okay." "Falling into the MacKenzies' pool." "Suggesting The Steak Pit as a wedding reception." "Oh, watching America's Most Wanted, looking for Bryan's face, and now this picnic scenario?" "A wedding is a big deal." "Everybody understands this but you." "As a matter of fact..." "Now, don't go nuts when I tell you this." "But when Bryan's mom called with her list, she suggested that they might want to pitch in and help with the cost of the wedding." "We may not have a house the size of Rhode Island, but we're not poverty-stricken." "We can afford to give our daughter a proper wedding." "Proper." "Not you in a chef's hat?" "Yeah." "Who said anything about a chef's hat?" "Yes, but I know you." "I'm close." "Look, I just really saw this whole thing differently." "I wanted to call a wedding coordinator to make the whole thing beautiful." "You want to call The Steak Pit." "Wait." "Wedding coordinator?" "What's that?" "A person who coordinates weddings." "What's to coordinate?" "Well, there's the invitations, the flowers, food, the band, the photographer." "Why are you giving me that look?" "A lot of people hire wedding coordinators." "You and I run two successful businesses." "We can pull together one smallish wedding." "We don't need some wedding coordinator." "Okay, let's just forget it." "I just really can't take this." "I'm not used to all this arguing." "I don't want to argue." "Do me a favor, okay?" "Go on upstairs, and I'll finish here." "Fine, fine." "I'll go upstairs." "I would like to remind you of what happened to what's-his-name?" "His daughter got married, and it practically broke him." "I remember." "You and I could end up shuffling along the sidewalk in our bathrobes." "That was a joke." "Hilarious." "All right, I'll go." "I'll meet the wedding coordinator." "You know I don't want to, but I'll go." "If you still want me to go, all right?" "Okay?" "Okay." "Now, let me do the talking, girls, okay?" "I negotiate better than you." "What's this guy's name?" "Franck." "Frank." "Franck." "Franck?" "Franck." "This is it." "NINA:" "Okay, here we go." "Oh, Mom, this is just..." "Oh, my." "ANNIE:" "This is amazing." "Look at this trim." "Beautiful pearls." "Wow." "I love how they did this, Mom." "Do you like this setting?" "It's beautiful." "That china also comes in a wonderful Sara Lee yellow." "Hi." "You must be Franck?" "(CHUCKLING) I wish." "I'm Franck's assistant, Howard Weinstein." "I'm Nina Banks, and this is Annie." "Hi." "The bride, and, George, my husband." "How do you do?" "May I offer you refreshments?" "Pellegrino?" "Espresso?" "Champagne?" "No." "I'll alert the boss that you're here." "Look around." "Have fun." "This is so great." "NINA:" "Annie?" "Yeah." "Wouldn't this be perfect for you?" "ANNIE:" "It's gorgeous." "Look how it goes with the crystal." "It's perfect." "Master and Mrs. Banks and the lovely bride." "Hello." "Hello." "I must apologize for keeping you waiting." "I'm Franck." "A pleasure to meet you." "(UNINTELLIGIBLE)" "NINA:" "Oh, yes." "FRANCK:" "The bride, the bride." "GEORGE:" "Right away I realized this was a mistake of gargantuan proportions." "This guy was going to coordinate our wedding?" "How?" "With subtitles?" "No." "(LAUGHING)" "Please come with me, and we'll talk all about your big day." "Big day for the bride." "Okay." "Papa-la, come." "Sit down on my own design." "I designed that." "Very nice, I think." "Now, so, you have not made up your list yet, but you know that you want a wedding at home on January 6, right?" "Yeah." "Excuse me?" "Yes, we would." "We would like a wedding at home on January 6." "Mmm." "I love the weddings at the homes." "They're very personable, very warm and cozy, very fabulous." "So, January 6 give us seven months." "Uh-oh." "Hello!" "That's five months." "Five months, not much." "But that don't bother me so much because it's tight but we can do it, and it will be spectacular." "I saw you worried for a second." "Don't worry about that." "So, now, let's see." "This is what I suggest." "I suggest that we select the cake first." "Because the cake very often determine what kind of wedding that you end up having." "So, let's just choose a cake, okay?" "Okay." "Choose the what?" "The cake, Dad." "Thank you, dear assistant." "This is fun." "So, this is a very popular cake for many of the fashionable weddings, you know." "And this I just don't do anymore." "And this is fabulous." "Oh, that is incredible." "That's like the one we saw in the magazine." "Do you like it, Dad?" "Well, what is that?" "Is that dollars?" "$1 ,200?" "This is a very reasonable price for a cake of this magnitude." "A cake, Franck, is made of flour and water." "My first car didn't cost $1 ,200." "(CHUCKLING) Well, welcome to the '90s, Mr. Banks." "GEORGE:" "Not only did I not understand a syllable this guy was saying, now I had the feeling he was putting me down." "Excuse me, Franck." "Could we please have a second?" "Of course, take two seconds." "Howard, let's return calls, quick." "What's the problem?" "Do you want to leave?" "Do you?" "No." "I like him." "I think he's going to make this a beautiful wedding." "Don't look at me." "You decide." "Give the man a chance, please." "Annie, do you like this cake?" "It is incredible, Dad." "All right, but just..." "We're going to." "We'll hold things down." "We won't go nuts." "Thank you." "Franck?" "Coming." "We'll take the cake." "Good." "Good." "Don't worry." "I'll bring the crew to the house." "We'll give it everything we have in the once-over department, and at the end you be very happy." "Trust me." "You just smile away." "Now, interesting idea." "Yes?" "With regard the theme and color of the wedding." "This is how I see it." "We go very elegant inside the tent, you know." "GEORGE:" "With one swift move, I'd been cut out of the deal." "Annie, Nina, and Franck were in charge now." "FRANCK:" "Beautiful china, Spode, and crystal to drop over dead for." "GEORGE:" "old Dad was history." "A few days later, I was at work, relieved not to talk about the wedding." "I wore those 750 Trainers over the weekend." "They still stiff?" "I think they need..." "I'm back from the Orient." "I got a new shipment." "Beautiful merchandise." "Gucci, Cartier, Louis Vuitton." "I never heard of Louis Vuitton." "He's big, believe me, or they wouldn't knock him off." "Don't worry, Mr. Banks." "They're on a break." "SECRETARY:" "Franck's office, line two." "I'll see the mock-ups Friday." "GEORGE:" "This was the call I'd been dreading since I heard" ""wedding coordinator."" "Hello?" "Mr." "Banks, this is Howard Weinstein," "Franck's executive assistant." "I have an estimate for you." "I can barely hear you." "I'm in my car, going through ...water Canyon." "Call you back?" "No, no, I want the estimate." "How much?" "What's the damage?" "For everything, from the flowers to the honeymoon Iimo." "Okay, everything." "How much?" "(UNINTELLIGIBLE)" "You're breaking up." "It sounded like you said $1 50 a head." "No, no." "Good." "I was about to kill myself." "It's $250 a head." "Get me Nina at work." "She just called." "I need the final head count." "She just gave it to me." "What is it?" "1 50?" "572." "$250 a head means for the four of us to attend this wedding in our home will cost $1 ,000." "We are not getting up from this table until we cut this list down to the bare minimum." "Now, invite as many people as you want to the church." "Build a grandstand if you want, but we are not having more than 1 50 people in this house on the day of the wedding." "All right." "Let's start eliminating." "Okay." "Jim Pepper and wife." "Great." "Start with one of my guys." "Fine." "Start with one of mine." "I'll cut Steve and Stephanie Tyrell." "Say no more." "They're history." "Pepper and wife." "I've known him for 20 years." "You haven't seen him in 1 5." "I'll say I lost his address." "Now, here's somebody." "Your cousin Betsy, the poet, waitress, picture framer." "NINA:" "We can't cut family." "They know about the wedding." "(SIGHING)" "I only invited one person, Cameron." "Mom said I could have a friend there." "For 250 bucks, see Cameron after." "All right." "Very good." "Five down." "We're rolling." "NINA:" "What about Harry Kirby?" "We haven't seen him in ages." "I don't know." "Didn't Harry Kirby die last year?" "Yes." "Good." "Oh, uh, sorry." "Who's Franck Eggelhoffer?" "What?" "He's coordinating it and we're not inviting him?" "Exactly." "Do you think I'm going to pay a guy 1 5%, an hourly, plus $500 to feed him and that assistant of his?" "Have you lost your mind?" "Can I put Cameron back if he promises not to eat?" "That's not a bad idea." "Who else can we ask not to eat?" "My parents." "Your mother." "Why don't we charge people?" "That way we can make money." "Ugh." "Annie..." "I was kidding." "(CLOCK CHIMING)" ""How to Give a Beautiful Wedding On a Small Budget."" ""Bake your own wedding cake."" ""Find a good tailor and copy a designer dress."" ""Have a friend take the pictures."" "GEORGE:" "From that moment on, I decided to shut my mouth and go with the flow." "My first move was to get the old tuxedo out of mothballs." "Hey, you're lookin' good, my man." "Get down." "Hey." "What's new, pussycat?" "Whoa, oh, oh" "What's new, pussycat?" "Whoa, whoa, oh" "NINA:" "George." "Hey" "Annie, he's up here." "Pussycat, pussycat I Iove you" "Indeed I do" "Yes, I do" "What do you think?" "Bought it in '75, and it still fits." "Like a glove." "Yeah, it's just, it's a real..." "Way to go." "Maybe..." "Maybe you could get a new tux." "We're all wearing new clothes." "Don't you think I look cute?" "I mean, there will be a lot of single gals there." "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "I'll get it." "Oh, oh, oh, by the way." "Good news." "The church is free." "Oh, finally, something is free." "I meant "available."" "FRANCK:" "Oh, I like that." "It's very good." "Oh, they've done the shutters." "A kind of I Remember Mama touch." "It's very nice." "We change it all, though." "Let's go." "GEORGE:" "Franck and his crew had arrived to finalize the details of the wedding." "First was an audition for a band singer." "Volare, oh, oh" "Cantare Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa" "No wonder Annie's happy heart sings" "Bryan's love is giving her wings, hey" "Like birds of a feather..." "As I was about to say "Don't call us, we'II call you"..." "We'll have to move out all the furniture of the hut." "Any sort of room." "Ooh." "This is a nice statement." "It's lots of fun." "Mrs. Banks, one question." "Franck was saying something about moving furniture?" "We have to move it out if we're gonna fit more than 200 bodies." "But what if someone wants to sit down?" "We bring in chairs." "If you're bringing in chairs, why are you moving the furniture out?" "Mr. Banks, I do this for a living, you know?" "Trust me." "The moving van must take everything out." "It's unorthodox, sure, but we need it." "Annie, Mrs. Banks, come this way, please." "What do you think of the singer?" "We do have choices." "I'd like to see them." "Good." "That'll be no problem." "(TRUMPETING)" "Our caterer, everyone, and my best friend in the world, Hanck." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "I take a moment of your time to discuss "de mano."" ""De mano"?" "Remind me." "The menu." "The menu, yes." "Unfortunately, Hanck speaks no English, so I will translate." "Franck, that'll be a big help." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "(FRANCK SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "(FRANCK, HANCK GIGGLING)" "This is what he suggests." "For the main course, he wants to serve veal." "ANNIE:" "Oh, really?" "I have a problem with that." "With what?" "With veal." "I keep reading there's inhumane treatment for the calves." "I read that, too." "You're very chic." "No veal." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "That leaves seafood, also chic, or fowl, which is not chic but cheap." "GEORGE: "Cheap. " finally a word I understood." "My first and last piece of good news." "Mrs." "Banks, one last thing." "NINA:" "Excuse me." "What is he doing?" "We need more amps to light the house and tent." "It's cheaper than a new line." "In terms of the florals out front, we're gonna color-coordinate with the swans, right?" "Swans?" "NINA:" "Wonderful." "We're having swans?" "Franck thought it would be great to have swans around the tulip border" "as the guests enter..." "We don't have a border." "You will." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "How much is..." "Mr." "Banks?" "We have problem." "Hanck does not now want to prep a chicken." "He doesn't what?" "Does the tent connect through here?" "(CLATTERING)" "I've been meaning to fix that." "You have to push, then pull." "Oh." "FRANCK:" "Let's not panic about anything." "Let's see." "Oh, what a..." "Ew." "That's only a seam." "We can fix that." "Now, please, about the seafood." "Hanck wants to know if it's okay or not okay." "No, Franck." "Tell Hanck it's not okay." "If I have to move out all the furniture, and add amps, repaint the walls, and get a new tux, and pay for swans, then I'd like the "chipper" chicken." "Is that clear?" "I understood the "chipper" part, yeah." "(CLEARS THROAT) (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Okay." "That's it." "Hanck says he will think about this." "Now, we do not want to lose him." "He is a genius, and we need his mind, okay?" "So, I'll see what I can do." "Hanck?" "Hanck?" "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "I see you're starting to lose it, but I have one more question, very minor." "Parking attendants." "Three is acceptable." "Anything less absolutely terrifies me." "Two." "Two." "George..." "Two." "Hanck says if you don't want the veal, he passes." "He passes?" "Hey, Dad, how's it going?" "I came to get my sneakers." "I left them in Annie's room." "GEORGE:" "I was beginning to feel like I was having an out-of-body experience." "I had to get out of the house, and fast." "(SCREECHING)" "Nina said as long as I was escaping, would I mind picking up something for dinner?" "Sure." "That was all I needed." "A busy supermarket." "I needed to drive, mellow out, get my mind off the wedding." "But meIIowing out was not in the cards." "All right." "Yeah." "Excuse me, sir." "What are you doing?" "I'll tell you what I'm doing." "I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot dog buns to go with them." "But no one sells eight hot dog buns." "They only sell 1 2 hot dog buns." "So I end up paying for four buns I don't need." "So I am removing the superfluous buns." "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to pay for all 1 2 buns." "They're not marked individually." "Yeah." "You want to know why?" "Because some big shot over at the wiener company got together with some big shot over at the bun company and decided to rip off the public." "They think the American public is a bunch of trusting nitwits" "who'll pay for things they don't need." "Get me security." "They're not ripping off this nitwit anymore, because I'm not paying for one thing I don't need." "George Banks is saying no!" "Who's George Banks?" "Me!" "Why don't we just calm down, sir?" "I'll tell you why we don't calm down." "Because you're not excited." "It takes two people for a "we" to calm down, doesn't it?" "That I don't know, sir." "I'm just the assistant manager of a supermarket." "But I'll tell you this." "If you don't pipe down and pay for those buns," "I'm gonna call the police." "Right." "Yeah." "Uh-huh, yeah." "Right." "That's right." "Hey, hey." "Hey, come here." "Uh-uh." "(CRASHING)" "GEORGE:" "That was the Iowpoint." "FIipping out over four hot dog buns." "I couldn't figure out why I was nuts, why the wedding had me so unglued." "Banks, your wife is here." "Aren't you gonna let me out?" "She wants to talk to you first." "She wants to talk to me first?" "Thank you." "Hello, George." "Why do you look happy to see me in here?" "Happy?" "No, I'm not happy." "(CHUCKLING)" "You think I was happy to tell everyone I had to go to jail and bail you out for stealing buns?" "I wasn't stealing them." "I was..." "I have to ask you not to talk, or I'll call Officer what's-his-name." "(SIGHING) You've been more than I can handle." "Annie's wedding is not a conspiracy against you." "It's just a wedding." "People have them every day in every country in the world." "I know it's going to be expensive, but we don't go to Europe, we don't own fancy cars." "I don't own expensive jewelry, so we can afford a big wedding." "Nina..." "I'll get you out on one condition, Banks." "That you agree to the following." "Now repeat after me." "I, George Stanley Banks promise to pull it together and act my age." "I will stop hyperventilating, rolling my eyes, unbuttoning my top collar button." "I don't unbutton..." "Yeah." "You mean this bit?" "I will stop hyperventilating, rolling my eyes, and unbuttoning my top collar button." "I will stop making faces in general, and I will stop telling everybody I meet how much this is costing." "I don't tell everyone how much it costs." "(GUARD CLEARING THROAT)" "He told you?" "$250 a head?" "Oh, well, thanks." "(SIGHING)" "I will try to remember my daughter's feelings, and how, with every roll of my eyes," "I am taking away a piece of her happiness." "I love you, Nina." "Just repeat the last part for me." "I will try to remember my daughter's feelings, and how, with every roll of my eyes," "I am taking away a piece of her happiness." "I love you, too." "Let's go home." "Okay?" "No." "I'll hold her here." "Okay, come on, Matty." "Let's go." "GEORGE:" "Plan B, Matty." "Plan B." "Here we go." "Hey!" "Okay, I got you." "Midget slam." "All right!" "Annie, Bryan, look." "You got a present." "The first present." "I can't believe it." "The second'll be here soon." "Oh, wow." "How do you know?" "My parents are bringing it." "This is when we give the presents?" "Great." "Good." "I'll be right back." "Where's he going?" "Maybe he got a present for you." "You know about this?" "I haven't got a clue." "(HORN HONKING)" "Look at this." "ANNIE:" "This is for us?" "ANNIE:" "Thank you so much." "Yikes." "A whole car." "ANNIE:" "My dad's gotta see this." "ANNIE:" "Dad?" "Dad?" "Dad, did you see what the MacKenzies got us?" "It's unbelievable, and you thought you'd never have a new car." "I know." "What's that?" "It's nothing." "It's just a gift I was thinking of giving you guys." "It's something you said you didn't have but you wanted." "Can I see it?" "Yeah, you know, it's..." "It's not the big, big gift, of course." "It's a cappuccino maker!" "It's supposed to be a good one." "That's what they said at the store." "It's top of the line." "It makes great foam." "I couldn't love anything more." "Goin' to the chapel and we're" "GEORGE:" "My feelings exactly." "Gonna get married" "Goin' to the chapel and we're" "Gonna get married" "Wow." "Gee, I really love you and we're" "Gonna get married" "Goin' to the chapel of love" "Spring is here" "The sky is blue Whoa" "Birds all sing" "As if they knew" "No." "Today's the day" "We'II say, "I do"" "And we'II never be lonely anymore" "All right, Mr. Banks." "Here you go, a 40 long." "It's gorgeous, even on the hanger." "Now, this is an actual Giorgio Armani." "The real McCoy." "Don't ask how I got it, but here it is." "Goin' to the chapel and we're" "Gonna get married" "Gee, I really love you and we're" "Gonna get married" "Goin' to the chapel of love" "bells will ring" "The sun will shine Whoa" "I'll be his..." "We have great friends." "We need some actual salad bowls." "These are primo gifts." "(MIMICS FRANCK) I am so happy we have decided to serve the very chic but expensive seafood that... (UNINTELLIGIBLE)" "Ah!" "The beautiful bride." "Good news." "You've received another lovely too-good-to-be-true tea set." "What's the matter?" "Send it back." "Come on." "What do you mean?" "Daddy, I'm not kidding." "Send them all back." "The wedding's off." "(THUNDERCLAP)" "GEORGE:" "Ann?" "(KNOCKING)" "Annie?" "I'm sorry, Dad, but I'm not gonna marry Bryan." "Okay, okay." "Whatever you want is okay with us." "I feel so awful after everything you guys have done." "And now I have to undo it all." "Don't worry about it." "These things get canceled all the time." "Your mother and I can take care of everything." "What happened?" "(CRYING)" "Another girl?" "No." "Look at your shirt." "Don't worry." "No, it wasn't anything like that." "It started out as nothing." "He gave me a present." "It's our eight-month anniversary today, and... he, he gave me..." "(CRYING)" "Just look." "He said it was for me, for our apartment." "Just look." "It's a blender." "Yeah." "Exactly." "I mean, I didn't want to act thrown or anything, but inside I was." "I mean, I thought something for the apartment." "Maybe a new clock, or a cool phone, or a great art book or something, but a blender?" "I mean, what is this, 1 958?" "Give the little wife a blender?" "I mean, it scared me, you know?" "In terms of his expectations." "I started to freak out, and he asked what was wrong, and I asked him what this is telling me." "He said "nothing," I didn't believe him, and we got in this big fight." "He said I was overreacting." "I said, "Why would I overreact?" "Nobody in my family overreacts."" "And then he came up with this totally absurd story, this completely outrageous lie, and I'm looking at him, and I'm thinking, "This man's a liar."" "What did he lie about?" "Actually, it was something about you." "Me?" "He said the day that you and Mom went to visit his folks..." "This is so ridiculous." "He said you were snooping around his dad's desk and that you somehow found his dad's bankbook." "Oh, no, no." "First he said you broke some mirror." "Then you found his dad's bankbook and threw it in their pool." "I mean, it's ridiculous." "The man lies." "(KNOCKING)" "Come in." "Annie, Bryan's downstairs." "I don't want to see him." "He looks awful." "Good." "Excuse me." "GEORGE:" "I thought maybe I should help smooth things over." "I took Bryan for a drink." "I thought we'd have a talk..." " (THUNDERCLAP) -...man to man." "But as I sat there and listened to his side of the story," "I realized this was a golden opportunity." "If I ever wanted to get rid of Bryan MacKenzie, this was my chance." "You know those banana shakes she likes to make, right?" "Well, that's why I thought she'd like a blender." "I guess I can see her point." "A blender does suggest a certain 1 950s reference to sexual politics." "I swear, it never entered my consciousness at the time." "I believe you." "You do?" "Would you tell Annie that for me, Dad?" "This was where I was gonna lower the boom." "But instead, I looked into his weepy eyes and found myself saying..." "Sure, I'll tell her." "Good." "'Cause I know whatever you say, she'll believe." "Not only was I not getting rid of the kid," "I now found myself talking him into staying." "You know, Bryan, Annie's a very passionate person, and passionate people tend to overreact at times." "Annie comes from a long line of major overreactors." "Me." "I can definitely lose it." "My mother." "A nut." "My grandfather." "Stories about him were legendary." "The good news, however, is that this overreacting tends to get proportionally less by generation." "So, your kids could be normal." "As if that wasn't enough, I went on." "But on the upside, with this passion comes great spirit and individuality, which is probably one of the reasons you love Annie." "It's what I love most about her." "That's when it hit me like a Mack truck." "Annie was just like me, and Bryan was just like Nina." "They were a perfect match." "(KNOCKING)" "I can't believe you took him out." "What did he say?" "I mean, you don't have to tell me." "What?" "Honey, I just spent an hour with Bryan, and believe me when I tell you that this gift says nothing about how he feels about you." "It's just a thing to put in the kitchen." "He thought you might want to blend something one day." "And you believe that?" "Completely." "He's downstairs now." "His heart is breaking." "Please go see him." "And also, that story he told you about me and the bankbook" "and the swimming pool?" "Yeah?" "What?" "It's..." "It's true." "Bryan." "Annie." "I am so sorry about the blender." "I see your point." "It was incredibly insensitive of me." "No, it's okay." "I want it." "It's my first anniversary present." "I'm sorry about calling you a worm." "My dad told me." "I thought I would never see you again." "If it wasn't for your father..." "I know, I know." "I love you." "Me, too." "Everything fine now?" "Good." "I'll just, uh..." "(BOTH MOANING)" "BRYAN:" "Annie." "Hi, Bryan." "What's up?" "GEORGE:" "well, we made it to January." "It was the day before the big day." "The Farmer's Almanac said this week would be the coldest" "LA had seen in half a century." "But we were so busy, none of us had time to notice." "GEORGE:" "Franck, Franck." "FRANCK:" "So, yes." "MATT: ...together." "Left, together." "Right, together." "Left, together." "Right, together." "Left, together..." "Right, together." "Left..." "You're up pretty late, aren't you?" "Yeah." "I know." "I'm just practicing." "I wish I didn't have to walk Mom down the aisle." "Don't worry." "You'll be great." "Is it right, together, left, or left, together, right?" "Come on." "Let's try it." "See, we go right, together." "Left, together." "Right, together." "Left, together." "Good." "I'm sorry if I've been preoccupied lately with this wedding." "It's okay." "But I have, haven't I?" "It's all right." "I understand." "Yeah, but..." "Yeah, you have, but I haven't felt ignored or anything." "Don't worry, Dad." "No permanent damage done." "Oh, okay." "ANNIE:" "It's really cute and cozy." "A great neighborhood." "You'll see it." "I am really excited." "I've got all this packing to do, and this room looks so different." "Yeah, I know." "It's gonna be weird, isn't it?" "Just you, me and Mom here now?" "Yeah." "Come on." "Good night, pal." "Sleep tight." "Good luck tomorrow, Dad." "Yeah, you, too." "MATT:" "Annie?" "Yeah?" "Good night." "Good night, Matty." "ANNIE:" "I love you." "I love you, too." "Today I met The boy I'm gonna marry" "He's all I wanted AII my Iife and even more" "He smiled at me And the music started playing" "Here Comes the Bride When he walked through the door" "Today I met The boy I'm gonna marry" "The boy whose life and dreams And love I wanna share" "Oh, on my hand a band of gold Appeared before me" "The band of gold I always dreamed I'd wear" "When we kissed I felt a sweet sensation" "This time it wasn't Just my imagination" "Today I met The boy I'm gonna marry" "He's just what I've been Waiting for, oh, yes" "With every kiss "Oh, this is it," my heart keeps saying" "Today I met" "The boy I'm going to marry" "(BALL BOUNCING)" "(RATTLING)" "Did I wake you?" "No, I was up." "So, what are you doing?" "I couldn't sleep." "I kept thinking about how this was my last night in my bed." "My house." "Kinda like my last night as a kid." "I mean, I've lived here since I was five, and I feel like I'm supposed to turn in my key tomorrow." "It was so strange, packing up my room." "You know how you've trained me never to throw anything away?" "So, I have all these ratty stuffed animals and yearbooks." "My old retainer." "All my old magic tricks." "I've actually packed it all." "I just didn't want to let it go." "I mean, I know I can't stay." "But it's like I don't want to leave." "Well..." "That's the thing about life, is the surprises." "The little things that sneak up on you and grab hold of you." "It still happens to me." "Yikes." "What is this?" "I don't believe it." "My God, talk about surprises." "It hasn't snowed in LA since I was nine." "Mom's gonna die." "(ANNIE LAUGHING)" "What?" "What is that face?" "No, nothing." "I was just thinking." "This is gonna end up costing you more money." "No." "How I know I'll remember this moment for the rest of my life." "GEORGE:" "When you live in a city that hasn't seen snow in 36 years, it's bound to cause problems." "First, we panicked and brought in extra heaters." "But they were melting the ice sculptures, so they had to go." "Back in the car." "Yeah." "The florist had to thaw out our newly planted tulips with a hair dryer." "Franck and Howard shoveled our path at no extra charge." "Why?" "Keep shoveling." "Don't stop." "They're gonna be here, you know?" "And the swans spent the morning in a lukewarm bath." "Other than that, we were almost running on schedule." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "It's after 3:00." "HOWARD:" "All I can say is, thank God snow is white." "It works." "Do you have that needle and thread?" "Here you go." "I'll fix you." "Howard, you got to go to the church." "HOWARD:" "On my way." "Uh-oh." "I bring the wrong color thread." "I assumed you'd wear a black tuxedo." "It is a black "tuxado."" "I don't think so, babe." "This tux is navy blue." "(LAUGHING) No doubt about that." "What are you talking about?" "Armani doesn't make a blue tuxedo." "Armani don't also make polyester." "(FRANCK GIGGLING)" "Where are the cars?" "We're supposed to be there by now." "Where are those cars?" "NINA:" "All right." "Relax, honey." "Everything's going to be fine." "At least we know they can't start without us." "GEORGE:" "I knew I'd never be able to remember what Nina wore that day, but I also knew I'd never forget the way she looked." "Nina..." "Thank you, George." "You shouldn't look this beautiful." "It's not fair to the bride." "(DOOR OPENING)" "Cars is here." "Matthew, front and center." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Aw." "ALL:" "No!" "Just kidding." "(SIGHING) -(NINA LAUGHING)" "NINA:" "What did you do to your hair?" "Gel." "You don't like it?" "No, no." "I think it looks cool." "Very debonair." "(HORNS HONKING)" "We'll go, and you and Annie follow." "George." "I follow." "Ann." "Annie?" "I'm ready." "Come on in." "You look beautiful." "Thanks." "Okay." "Let's get this show on the road." "GEORGE:" "We're here." "(CHATTERING)" "ANNIE:" "Hi." "NINA:" "You look beautiful." "PHOTOGRAPHER:" "Mother of the bride." "NINA:" "George." "GEORGE:" "Coming through." "Left, together." "Right, together." "Got it, Dad." "See?" "Let's do this." "Okay?" "I love you." "I love you, too." "Mother of the bride, gotta go." "George." "HOWARD:" "Let's go, everybody." "Line up." "Mother of the bride." "Come on, mother of the bride." "I'm opening the doors." "Natasha, haven't you peeked enough?" "Here we go." "Come on." "Let's go." "(INHALING DEEPLY)" "And, left, right." "Very nice." "Smile." "HOWARD:" "Right." "And, left, right." "And very nice." "And left..." "Left, right, left..." "GEORGE:" "This was the moment I'd been dreading for the past six months." "well, actually, for the past 22 years." "Hold on, Dad." "Annie overwhelmed me." "She was as calm and cool as I'd ever seen her." "Very un-Banks-Iike." "(WEDDING MUSIC PLAYING)" "Okay." "(MURMURING)" "Here you go." "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together in the presence of family, friends and loved ones for the purpose of uniting in matrimony..." "GEORGE:" "All I could think of was the part I had to play." "Then suddenly, I went blank." "I had one line, and I couldn't remember it." "When the reverend said, "Who presents this woman,"" "was I supposed to say, "That's me"?" "Or was it, "I do"?" "I couldn't think." "I felt every eye in the place boring into my neck, waiting for me to screw up, when suddenly it was upon me." "Who presents this woman in holy matrimony?" "I do." "Annie and Bryan, you have come here today to join your hands..." ""Who presents this woman?"" "This woman." "But she's not a woman." "She's just a kid." "And she's leaving us." "REVEREND: ...with a deep realization of its obligations and responsibilities." "I realized at that moment that I was never going to come home again and see Annie at the top of the stairs." "Never going to see her at our breakfast table in her nightgown and socks." "I suddenly realized what was happening." "Annie was all grown up and leaving us." "And something inside began to hurt." "REVEREND:" "I, Bryan MacKenzie..." "I, Bryan MacKenzie, -take thee, Annie Banks," "take thee, Annie Banks, -to be my wedded wife... to be my wedded wife to love and to comfort from this day forward." "I, Annie Banks," "I, Annie Banks, take thee, Bryan MacKenzie, to be my lawful wedded husband to love and to comfort from this day forward." "REVEREND:" "The ring, please." "With this ring as a token of my love and affection," "I thee wed." "With this ring as a token of my love and affection," "I thee wed." "(SOBBING)" "Here, sweetie." "With this ring as a token of my love and affection," "I thee wed." "With this ring as a token of my love and affection, I thee wed." "By virtue of the authority vested in me," "I now pronounce you husband and wife." "You may kiss the bride." "(CLAPPING)" "GEORGE:" "well, she did it." "And now, as my son said, it was time to party." "How are you?" "Congratulations." "The house was busting at the seams." "Everywhere I Iooked were faces, most of which, I might add, I'd never seen before." "I'd like you to meet the Danish relatives." "I met the Danish relatives, who thanked me profusely for flying them over." "Everyone was telling me what a great party it was, how beautiful the house looked." "They loved the flowers, the hors d'oeuvres, the swans." "We even seemed to be getting away with two parking attendants." "Everything was running smoothly, except for one detail." "I still hadn't kissed the bride." "Annie, she's having a picture taken." "Hi, Ben." "Hi." "Vince went back with Gwen again." "PHOTOGRAPHER:" "Okay, kids, look at each other." "Very nice." "I'm sorry." "All traffic has to go through the front door." "Could I have one of those?" "Just sold my last one." "A button." "It's navy." "This must be yours." "MAN:" "We're moving into the tent now." "Dinner is served." "This way to the tent, please." "GEORGE:" "Annie!" "GEORGE:" "It was unbelievable." "I had never seen a line form so fast." "It was as if they knew what the food was costing me." "finally, I made it into the tent." "I was ready to relax and taste the food I'd been hearing about" "for the past five months, when..." "Dad!" "There's cops out front." "They want to talk to you." "Cops?" "We will handle this together." "I've got George." "We're on our way." "Come on, George." "Quicker." "Let me handle this." "Give me your wallet." "Stop!" "DISPATCHER:" "Adam-30, disregard." "GEORGE:" "What is this?" "MATT:" "See, Cameron, I told ya." "Wow." "FRANCK:" "Try to smile." "POLICEMAN:" "This your house?" "Me?" "Yeah, you, in the blue tux." "It is." "Do you have a permit for parking 200 cars here?" "Well, the problem is, officer, that we are supposed to have four parking attendants." "But two got the flu." "You better get the cars off the street before the fire marshal gets here." "What do we do with them?" "I don't care." "Just have them off the street in 30 minutes." "Will do, sir." "We'll take care of it." "You're not to worry, okay?" "HOWARD:" "Where are you?" "The cake..." "They need me." "Big moment." "The cake is coming out." "I'll handle this." "FRANCK:" "I'm on my way." "Where are we gonna get a couple extra drivers?" "(SCREECHING)" "Hey, baby, I'm your man Turn around, you'II see" "I may not stand tall And I don't talk deep" "But I'm gonna win your love for me" "Yes!" "Watch out Here comes your man" "Lookin' cool with me -(TIRES SCREECHING)" "Whoa!" "(STARTER GRINDING)" "By the way, great wedding, Mr. Banks." "And don't worry." "I didn't eat anything." "That makes two of us." "Where is he?" "I don't know." "When it's cold outside" "I've got the month of May" "I guess you'd say" "What can make me feel this way?" "It's my girl" "My girl, my girl" "I will feel a glow" "Just thinking of you" "And the way you look tonight" "Oh, but you're lovely" "With your smile so warm" "And your cheek so soft" "There is nothin' for me" "But to love you" "Just the way you look tonight" "Just the way you look" "Tonight" "GEORGE:" "I had to admit, the wedding appeared to be a complete success." "Now all I needed to make me happy was a dance with the bride." "Ladies and gentlemen, in a just few moments, Mrs. Annie Banks MacKenzie will be tossing a bouquet in the foyer." "Then she's off to Hawaii." "Excuse me." "This I was not going to miss." "Coming through." "The mob was headed through the living room." "I took a shortcut." "MAN:" "Great wedding, George." "Thanks." "Excuse me." "Whoa!" "Ay, yi, yi!" "(SWAN SQUAWKS)" "Whoo." "(CHEERING)" "Where's my dad?" "I don't know." "I haven't seen him." "GEORGE:" "Watch it." "Behind you." "Should I throw it?" "Yeah!" "He missed it." "NINA:" "Goodbye." "Bye!" "Bye!" "MAN:" "Bye!" "BRYAN:" "Thanks." "MAN:" "Have fun!" "(HORN HONKING)" "GEORGE:" "She was gone." "My Annie was gone, and I was too late to say goodbye." "When the Iast guest was gone and the Iast glass of champagne had been drunk, we surveyed the damage." "It's funny how empty a house can suddenly get, isn't it?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to say goodbye to her." "That's all right." "NINA:" "You know, I think she's going to be really happy." "Oh, yeah." "Sure." "(TELEPHONE RINGING)" "Hello." "Dad?" "Hi." "Where are you?" "The airport." "Our plane's about to take off, but I couldn't leave without saying goodbye." "Thank Mom for everything, okay?" "Dad, I love you." "I love you very much." "I love you, too, sweetheart." "Thanks for calling." "And have a great honeymoon." "Thanks." "I will." "Bye." "Someday" "When I'm awfully low" "When the world is cold" "That was Annie." "Oh." "I will feel a glow" "Just thinkin' of you" "And the way you look tonight" "Oh, but you're lovely" "With your smile so warm" "And your cheek so soft" "There is nothin' for me" "But to love you" "Just the way you look" "Tonight"