In Chicago, Illinois, six year old Emily Howland requires a kidney transplant imminently or will die from kidney failure. Her parents, Sarah and Kirk Howland, the latter who owns a successful car lot, are not appropriate matches. As such, Kirk unilaterally decides to go back to a life that he abandoned eight years ago in Portland, Oregon, a life about which Sarah knows nothing and about which Kirk does not plan on telling her. Then, he, under his real name of Mark Drummond, and his then girlfriend, Jamie Butler, had rented a single engine plane to fly from Portland to Las Vegas to elope, as three of their four parents disapproved of them getting married, largely due to class differences. Mark at the time was floundering in life trying to figure out what to do with no savings. Mark and Jamie ended up stealing $200,000 of Mrs. Butler's money with every intention of paying it back when they could.

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.

A doll fetches a nurse when children elope.

改革开放的政策并没有改变中原山村桃花沟封建婚姻的现实。洪利的爹娘为儿子张罗婚礼，不久媳妇跑回了娘家；世强和春燕为爱情出奔；具有新思想的土才和柳叶正在热恋。雨生和小雪相爱。小雪家穷，哥哥春山娶亲时约定把她换给嫂子的傻弟弟—狗剩。雨生和小雪逃到城里，努力学习。小雪出逃，春生气病了。雨生回家看望春生，恰巧碰见春山妻，只好躲进面缸。雨生装成小雪父亲的灵魂钻出面缸，教育了春山妻。老一辈的思想开通了，为儿女们举办了集体婚礼。

艾德娜的父亲看不上未来的女婿查理，却想把女儿嫁给富有的伯爵，可是艾德娜的心早已属于查理。查理冒充伯爵不成，便和丈人及伯爵展开了一场争夺爱人的喜剧。