Fed up with paying for things he doesn't want, he starts removing hot dog buns from the store's 12-bun packets so as to match the 8-dog packets of hot dogs. He leaves the house to cool off, but ends up causing a disturbance at the supermarket. The last straw occurs when he retrieves his old tuxedo from the attic - with the expectation that at least it will still fit - and as he struggles to put it on - it promptly rips when he bends over.
The high price, and the seemingly excessive number of wedding invitations and cost of each dinner, begin to take their toll on George and he becomes slightly insane. He sneers dismissively at George's complaints about the price of the extravagant wedding items, including a flock of swans. He eventually ends up falling into the pool when cornered by the MacKenzies' vicious pet Dobermans.Īll is forgiven, however, and the Banks family meets with an eccentric German wedding coordinator, Franck Eggelhoffer. John reassures George by also expressing how shocked he had initially been at Bryan's engagement, but George quickly gets into trouble when he begins nosing around the MacKenzies' financial records. George and Nina meet Bryan's parents, John and Joanna MacKenzie, who are wealthy and live in a mansion in Bel-Air. George does not want to let go of his daughter. Despite Bryan's good financial status and likeable demeanor, George takes an immediate dislike to him while his wife, Nina, accepts him as a potential son-in-law. 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.
His 22-year-old daughter Annie, freshly graduated from college, returns home from Europe and announces that she is engaged to Bryan MacKenzie, despite their only having known each other for three months. George narrates what he had to go through with his daughter's wedding. George Banks is the owner of a successful athletic shoe company called Side Kicks in San Marino, California.