Father of the Bride

Kay delivers her bombshell to the Banks family at breakfast with just three little words, ""we're getting married.""

Stanley Banks meets his future son-in-law to learn how Buckley Dunstan expects to take care of a wife but only succeeds in convincing Buckley that he, Stanley, is destitute.

Ellie, with great trepidation, and Stanley call on Buckleys' parents for the first time.

Buckley's mother suggests a specially cut, family heirloom ring as the ideal engagement ring for Kay, to Buckley's horror. But to Buckley's amazement, Kay thinks the ring is beauti...

Father decides against hiring caterers for the engagement party. He'll handle the drinks and Delilah will take care of everything else.

Kay sets out to show the Dunstans that she is more than just an attractive woman by insisting, against Ellie's warning, on making an exotic curry. All goes well until Tommy's paine...

To Father's relief, everyone is in favor of a small wedding. But when Ellie hands him her guest list, it's a much different story. Stanley nominates himself to reduce the list, thu...

Swearing Kay to secrecy, Agnes Ramsey reveals that she is secretly married and cannot be maid of honor at Kay's wedding. Agnes' parents, close friends of the Banks, react violently...

Ellie brings in a Mr. Massoula to cater the wedding reception. Stanley, hearing how much it's going to cost, assures her he can handle the job himself. His attempts backfire, forci...

A large white elephant, without a card, arrives with Kay's wedding gifts. Its presence is treated as a prank, but Father learns the piece comes from his secretary and is a priceles...

Stanley, despite the fact that he has gained some 20 pounds from the time he was married, is determined to lose enough weight so he can wear his old cutaway suit at Kay's wedding....

On the day of Kay's bridal celebration, Ellie persuades Stanley to take Herbert, Buckley and Tommy fishing. But the expedition winds up a disaster when all but Tommy are hauled bef...

After Stanley puts a deposit down on an apartment for Kay and Buckley, he discovers the newlyweds have already decided to buy a house.

For his birthday present, Stanley has a brand new electric gold cart picked out. But with all the excitement centered around the impending wedding, Ellie seems to have completely f...

Tommy begins to worry about Kay and Buckley's compatibility when the two disagree over where they will spend their honeymoon.

Stanley gets himself in an awkward situation when he brags to Tommy about his scholastic prowess. When Tommy invites a classmate, a girl who he is very anxious to impress, to come...

At a stage luncheon for Buckley before his wedding, someone sets his watch back an hour as a joke and causes him to miss the wedding rehearsal, thus getting him into big trouble wi...

The day of Kay's wedding to Buckley finally arrives. It is during the reception at the Banks' home that an unexpected crisis develops. Upset by the appearance of Buckley's former g...

Stanley becomes jealous when the honeymooning Buckley sends a pine pillow to his parents, but the Banks receive nothing from Kay. To cover his disappointment, Stanley tells the Dun...

After furnishing the apartment for Kay and Buckley's homecoming, both families receive a shock when the newlyweds return and find it completely bare.

Buckley's mother decides that Kay's cooking isn't proper for her son and determines to remedy the situation by giving Kay recipes, helping her shop and even taking a turn in her ki...

Kay and Buckley's first quarrel ends with Kay running home to mother. Stanley thinks his daughter is too pampered and is in favor of sending her right back but Ellie won't hear of...

Both Stanley and Kay begin to feel neglected when Tommy begins spending all of his spare time with Buckley.

Ellie and Doris Dunstan decide to open an antique shop for charity. They start acquiring stock by giving all of their own ""antiques,"" which are Stanley and Herbert's favorite pie...

A tearful Kay arrives at the Banks' house following a quarrel with Buckley. Her dramatic explanation of what took place is later contradicted in Buckley's version, whereupon Stanle...

When the Dunstans find an elegant old home for Kay and Buckley that is an unbelievable bargain, Stanley is piqued because the house is quite close to the Dunstans and across town f...

Delilah's announcement of candidacy for president of a social and charity organization throws the Banks' household into political turmoil.

Doris receives a letter telling her that a distant relative has died leaving an island and 145-room Norman Castle off the coast of Wales, which she will inherit along with a title...

Stanley begins devoting much of his evenings to a mysterious ""Josephine"" to the horror of Doris, Herbert and Stanley's secretary, who can't believe that he and Ellie are having m...

When Stanley hears that Herbert has been mysteriously hospitalized but is unable to reach him or his doctor, he goes to the hospital himself to see what it's all about. Stanley dis...

Stanley takes Buckley's suggestion for a band to play at the annual Lawyer's Ball.

Stanley cons Buckley and Tommy into joining him for the weekend at Ed Bradley's mountain hideaway, unaware of the consequences when Ellie and Kay discover that Bradley's so called...

Stanley invites an old-school mate, Bones Hammerstock, to stop by for a visit. He discovers that Bones is now a big, hearty muscleman and his wife is a veritable Amazon. Ellie reco...

Stanley listens to the counsel of one of his clients, Mr. Wilkins, about how to deal with Kay. Wilkins' advice and the experts' psychology backfire, leaving Stanley in trouble with...