Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
Alan Alda
as Eddie Hopper
Joey Bishop
as Eddie's Father
Madeline Kahn
as Lola Hopper
Anthony LaPaglia
as Stevie Dee
Catherine O'Hara
as Gloria Henner
Joe Pesci
as Oscar Henner
Molly Ringwald
as Betsy Hopper
Ally Sheedy
as Connie Hopper
Burt Young
as Georgie
Julie Bovasso
as Grandma
Nicolas Coster
as Harry Lovell
Bibi Besch
as Nancy Lovell