To celebrate his baptism and the soon-to-be Greek wedding, Toula’s family decides to host a “small” get together to welcome the Miller family into the Portokalos family. All the time! Like, you never just have a minute alone, just to think, ’cause we’re always together, just eating, eating, eating! The only other people we know are Greeks, ’cause Greeks marry Greeks to breed more Greeks, to be loud breeding Greek eaters.”Īfter accepting his new fate as the newest member in the “big and loud” Greek family, Ian proposes to Toula and decides to be baptized in the Greek Orthodox church to appease her father, Gus (played by Michael Constantine), who has been against the relationship since day one. And everybody is in each other’s lives and business. Toula decides to warn him of what could be there very near future, “…And my whole family is big and loud. However, Toula finds herself committing the deadly Grecian sin after she meets and falls in love with Ian Miller (played by John Corbett), an obvious non-Greek. The only thing Greek women are meant to do, in Toula’s mind, is to marry a Greek man and produce a large Greek family and live happily ever after in Greece-America.
Modeled after her own real-life love story, screenwriter and actress Nia Vardalos stars as Fotoula “ Toula” Portokalos, a middle aged Greek-American struggling to find purpose and independence in her mundane, parental-controlled life. It can be difficult for a plain old Bundt cake to find a place in the land of skewered lamb, Tzatziki sauces, and Moussaka…almost as difficult as it can be for a very American, non-Greek to find a place amongst native Greeks, as is the story behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
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