He's Italian. She's Irish. He's a street thug with a cruel wit and devil's vocabulary. She's a cheerleader and a homebody. The one thing Dominick and Emily have in common--besides the fact that they just eloped--is the Catholic church, which their families hold over their heads. Through baptisms, funerals and weddings their culture-clashing families try to out-Catholic each other as the justice-of-the-peace newlyweds finally find something to believe in--even if it is only each other.