So, Who's More Important? The Bride or The Groom's Parents?

From the Weddings section of the NYTimes:

Rachel Kaplan, Eric Reicher

Rachel Carla Kaplan and Eric Aaron Reicher are to be married Sunday in Great Barrington, Mass. Rabbi Deborah Zecher is to officiate.

The bride, 28, will take her husband’s name. She is an associate in the Washington office of the Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis. She graduated, cum laude, from Tufts University with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and environmental studies, and she received her law degree from Boston University.

She is the daughter of Lynne Pevzner Kaplan and David T. Kaplan of Chevy Chase, Md. The bride’s father is the assistant deputy administrator for plant protection and quarantine in the Agriculture Department Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Her mother is an organizational development consultant in Chevy Chase.

The bridegroom, 30, is a litigation associate at the Washington law firm Williams & Connolly. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard.

He is a son of Terri A. Reicher and Dr. Oscar A. Reicher of Pompton Lakes, N.J. The bridegroom’s mother, a lawyer, is an independent mediator and arbitrator specializing in commercial disputes and is an adjunct professor of law at the Cotsakos College of Business at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J. She is a trustee of the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation. His father, an orthopedic surgeon, is the managing partner and the founder of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Center, a group medical practice with offices in Wayne and in Lincoln Park, N.J. He also teaches orthopedic surgery in the physical therapy program at the Newark campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

and wasn't that nice of the friend/relative?

Amy J. Nathanson and Austin G. Winsberg were married Saturday at the Montage Laguna Beach Resort & Spa in California. The ceremony was led by David F. Nathanson, a friend of the bridegroom and relative of the bride, who became a Universal Life minister for this occasion.

Just for the occasion? Then what?