To those who know, and even to those who don't, a honeymoon is a familiar, sometimes funny experience. To Robert and Gloria it's almost a disaster. Gloria's mother intrudes, and then there's Gloria's cooking...

Newlyweds Robert and Gloria thought it would be so simple: just buy the house and move in, right? Wrong. It takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home so they call in a grudgingly affable painter, hire a bold-as-brass decorator, and then Robert has to wheedle a furniture loan out of a lecherous and bureaucratic Mr. Faversham.