George lives in San Marino, California with his wife, Nina, and their much younger son, Matty, and is the owner of a successful athletic shoe company called Side Kicks.

The reception at the Banks family home goes well thanks to George managing several crises behind the scenes, but as a result, he misses most of it and is unable to say goodbye to Annie before she and Bryan leave for their honeymoon in Hawaii.

[3] It was Steve Martin, a fan of their previous film Baby Boom (1987), who brought director Charles Shyer and his wife Nancy Meyers on bord.

[4] The film's soundtrack, released by Varèse Sarabande on December 12, 1991 in the United States,[5] was composed, conducted and produced by Alan Silvestri and was influenced by jazz and Christmas instrumentations.

[10] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and called it "one of the movies with a lot of smiles and laughter in it, and a good feeling all the way through.

The explanation is simple: It's all Steve Martin,"[12] while his colleague Hal Hinson called the film "a pleasing, well-crafted, surprisingly satisfying diversion.

"[13] New York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote that "the material has been successfully refurbished with new jokes and new attitudes, but the earlier film's most memorable moments have been preserved.

The magazine found that "best stuff here comes straight from Martin, such as his frenzied antics in the in-laws’ house or his ridiculous Tom Jones imitation in front of a mirror in a too-tight tuxedo.

"[15] Empire's Jo Berry found that while Father of the Bride was a "pale imitation of the original, "The film does work, but not quite as well as the Hepburn-Tracy classic that it seeks to replace.

"[17] The Hollywood Reporter's Henry Sheehan felt that "the film's sole dramatic preoccupations are with broad physical comedy and unrealistically offbeat characterizations; a few moments of nominal pathos are really just structural pauses in the joke series.

"[18] Richard Corliss from Time magazine wrote: "Neither the ’90s nor the husband-wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer can match the original film’s grace or wit.

"[19] On February 21, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that remakes of several films are in development as exclusive content for The Walt Disney Company's streaming service Disney+ with one of those projects named in the announcement as Father of the Bride.