The newly-married Joe and Valerie take a flashback look at the hilarious events that occurred before their wedding: Frank and Paulie feuding over who will be the best man and Stella threatening to boycott the wedding if her ex-husband (Valerie's father) shows up.
Joe and Valerie learn that a gangster's funeral is scheduled at the same time and in the same church as their wedding.
Joe and Valerie break the news to their respective parents that they have decided to live together which causes an uproar and the subsequent search for a place to live through a rental service causes even more havoc.
Joe, who works at his dad's plumbing store, meets Valerie at a disco and a romance begins. But Joe's roommates, hearse driver Paulie and chauvinist Frankie interfer as does Valerie's divorced mother Stella with whom she lives.