Furthermore, it is pointed out that cross-cultural problems can easily be avoided when both parties are ready to understand and accept each other’s opinion and cultural identity. Toula’s father, for example, feels personally attacked by the decision of his daughter not to get married to a Greek man. But the fact that Ian even gets baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church for the sake of Toula and her family convinces Gus in the end that he deserves to get married to his beloved daughter.