简介: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her strait-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. Pressure from Betsy s extended family to include their joint Jewish and Italian-Catholic heritage in the ceremony doesn t do
much to assuage the title character s worries| nor does the lovelorn bitterness of her older sister| Connie| who s single| her parents assume| because she has the
audacity to pursue the unfeminine profession of police officer. With all of his funds tied up into the money pit of a house he s building| Betsy s dad has to turn to
his crooked brother-in-law| Oscar| for financial assistance| and soon a soft-spoken but menacing young mobster named Stevie Dee is supervising Eddie s construction