My Big Greek Wedding – A True Family Comedy

One rainy night, Tula finds herself doing the same thing she’s always done. She is a thirty-year-old sit-down hostess in Chicago at Dancing Zorbas’s family restaurant. She is very different from most people, even when she was very young. Her family is very Greek. She eats Greek food and goes to Greek school when other girls go to brownies. Her house was even inspired by the Parthenon. Her father believes that everything can be cured with Windex. Greek women have three jobs in life, marrying Greek children, making Greek babies, and feeding everyone until the day they die. The one who doesn’t marry must work in the family business until he does. Her father wants to send her to Greece to find a man, but she refuses to go. The family decides that she will be very trustworthy in the future and that she will always be there to run the restaurant.

One day, a man comes to the restaurant to have lunch with a fellow professor. He has a hard time talking and acts very strange. He decides to tell his parents that he wants to go back to college so he can get a computer and avoid overcrowding the restaurant. She also wants to have a way to escape from her family and possibly go on a date. She gets a perm and makeup for the first time in a long time. She takes some classes and asks her aunt to hire her at the travel agency. Her aunt also owns a dry cleaners. So her aunt and her mother make her father believe that she was his idea.

While working at the travel agency, the mystery man walks by and notices that she is having too much fun working. She notices him and hides. The next day, he returns and introduces himself as Ian Miller and invites her to dinner. He likes Linkin Park, he is a vegetarian and an only child. As he eats, he suggests they go to Dancing Zorbas for her next date and she tells him that her family owns the restaurant. He then makes the connection that she was the host sitting there. They decide to go to Italian instead.

They go for a walk and tell Ian about their doubts about the future of their relationship because her family is loud and big and Greek and his family is small and quiet. Ian convinces her that it will work. She is later caught kissing him and her family finds out about her. Her father is very angry because he is not Greek. Then her family tries to set him up with a lot of Greek men which doesn’t work out. Tula continues to secretly see Ian.

Gus, your father starts to pout about the whole situation. He thinks that no one is thinking about him and his feelings. His mother tells him that his daughter, Tula, is in love and that there is nothing he can do about it. Tula sees Ian at work and asks him to elope with her. He tells her that they will do it the right way and marry into her family. To help accept him, Ian is baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church. Then they have an engagement party.

Her family begins to take over the wedding planning. Everything is strongly Greek. Invitations are ordered, bridesmaids’ dresses are chosen, and the guest list is prepared without Tula’s approval. The invitations even have some misspellings. Ian’s parents come to the house for dinner. The whole family is invited. They are very shy and do not know how to take greetings from the whole family. Will it be too much for Ian’s parents? Will Ian and Tula’s relationship survive? Look and discover.