This is the first collaboration between Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. The two of them have known each other since the 1990s before either of them became famous. They met through some mutual friends and shared meals together. She also used to watch him perform at the Improv, and she attended his wedding in 2003. He had also tried to get her to join Saturday Night Live (1975) during his time there, but she turned it down to join Friends (1994).
When Adam Sandler and family go across the bridge, the family that tells them that the bridge is made for only one person. The two children are Sandler's kids (Sadie Sandler and Sunny Sandler) and the "wife" is Sandler's sister-in-law (Alexandra Titone).
When Danny (Adam Sandler) and Eddie (Nick Swardson) go to the party where Danny meets Palmer (Brooklyn Decker) the house is Nick Swardson's real house.
Despite the negative critical reception of the film, Nicole Kidman said that she enjoyed being part of the project. Mainly because, although she is Australian, she got to work in her birthplace of Hawaii, which she left when she was 4 and because her parents from Australia were able to spend time with her and her children, while she was working.
Filmed at Hilton's Waldorf Astoria, Grand Wailea in Wailea, Maui.
Adam Sandler: [V] In Sandler's early films, the names of his love interests are usually alliterative, often beginning with the "V". The unfaithful bride Veruca (Jackie Sandler ) is a callback to that gag.
Jackie Sandler: Danny Maccabee's bride-to-be at the beginning of the film is Adam Sandler's real-life wife