My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The movie is centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a Greek-American woman (Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script), who falls in love with a non-Greek protestant fellow, Ian Miller (played by John Corbett).Toula is going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty, she is the only woman in her family who has "failed": her family expects her to "marry a Greek, have Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die." Instead, Toula is stuck working in the family business, a restaurant. In contrast to her "perfect" sister, Athena (Stavroula Logothetis), Toula is frumpy and cynical. She fears she's doomed to be stuck with her life as it is.At the restaurant, she encounters Ian Miller, a school teacher, an event which changes her outlook. She goes to school to learn computers, and eventually goes to work at her aunt's travel agency. She also begins to care more about her appearance.Toula feels much better in her new job, especially when she notices Ian hanging around looking at her through the window. They finally introduce themselves and begin dating. Toula keeps the relationship secret from her family until some weeks later when Gus (her father) finds out. Gus throws a fit because Ian is not Greek. Ian asks permission to continue seeing Toula. Gus refuses, but Toula and Ian continue to see each other.Ian proposes, Toula accepts, and Gus is ultimately forced to accept their relationship. Ian readily agrees to convert to the Greek Orthodox faith in order to be worthy of Toula, and is baptized in traditional fashion. At the family's Easter festival, Ian confesses he is a vegetarian — a brief crisis for the entire family ensues — and he has a lot of trouble pronouncing Greek words.As the year passes, the wedding planning hits snag after snag as Toula's relatives "helpfully" interfere; her father insists on inviting the entire church to the ceremony, her mother orders the invitations but misspells Ian's parents' names, and Toula's cousin Nikki orders tacky bridesmaids' dresses. Toula is horrified to learn that her parents invited the entire family to what was meant to be a "quiet" dinner, and the Millers, unused to such cultural fervor, are overwhelmed.The wedding day dawns with liveliness and hysteria, but the traditional wedding itself goes without a hitch. Everyone goes to the reception, and the Millers, fortified with many glasses of ouzo, begin to enjoy the Greek partying lifestyle. Gus gives a speech accepting Ian and the Millers as family.Gus and Maria buy a gift for the young couple: a house right next door to them. The film's epilogue shows the Millers' life a few years later in which they have a daughter that they raise in the Greek style.