<P> The film inspired a series of Hallmark commercials that featured the smiling faces of the happy couple and sneak - peeks at the backs of numerous greeting cards . It is number 92 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". </P> <P> The film opened to positive reviews, and became a major box office success, earning more than four times its budget . With its success, a sequel, Father of the Bride Part II was released in 1995 . This was Nancy Meyers and Diane Keaton's second film together, the first being Baby Boom (1987); the others were Father of the Bride Part II (1995) and Something's Gotta Give (2003). </P> <P> George Banks (Steve Martin) is the owner of a successful athletic shoe company called Side Kicks in San Marino, California . His 22 - year - old daughter, Annie (Kimberly Williams) who just graduated from college, returns home from Europe, announcing that she is engaged to Bryan MacKenzie (George Newbern), a man from an upper - class family from Bel - Air, despite their only having known each other for six months . The sudden shock turns the warm reunion into a heated argument between George and Annie, but they quickly reconcile in time for Bryan to arrive and meet them . Despite Bryan's good financial status and likeable demeanour, George takes an immediate dislike to him while his wife, Nina (Diane Keaton), accepts him as a potential son - in - law . George does not want to let go of his daughter . </P> <P> George and Nina meet Bryan's parents, John and Joanna MacKenzie . Though George feels comfort from John also expressing how shocked he had initially been at Bryan's engagement, he quickly gets into trouble when he begins nosing around and eventually ends up falling into the pool when cornered by the MacKenzies' vicious pet Dobermans . All is forgiven, however, and the Banks meet with an eccentric European wedding coordinator, Franck Eggelhoffer (Martin Short) and his assistant, Howard Weinstein (B.D. Wong), where George immediately begins complaining about the price of the extravagant wedding items . The high price, $250 a head, plus the problems of wedding invitations begin to take their toll on George and he becomes slightly insane . The last straw occurs when his wrongly sized suit, which he had struggled to put on, rips when he bends his back . He leaves the house to cool off, but ends up causing a disturbance at the supermarket . Fed up with paying for things he doesn't want, he starts removing hot dog buns from their 12 - bun packets so as to match the 8 - dog packets of hot dogs . He ends up getting arrested, but Nina arrives to bail him out on the condition that he stop ruining the wedding . </P>

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