"Son of the Bride" garnered mostly positive reviews from film critics. On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an overall 86% "Certified Fresh" approval rating based on 57 reviews, with a rating average of 7.3 out of 10. The site's consensus is: "A film about one man's mid-life crisis, The Son of the Bride is both touching and funny." At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 0–100 reviews from film critics, the film has a rating score of 68 based on 29 reviews, classified as a generally favorably reviewed film.