How dare you to even think that. The guy knew how his fiancée felt about her father's efforts to break them apart. By extension he was continuing in the spirit of their relationship to honor it along with her feelings. Their bond together in their hearts excluded her father from the equation even though they didn't get to consecrate it in Church. The Reverend Tom Ford is a hypocritical fool.
I met my future in-laws with my hair down to my shoulders, a scraggly beard, a Leon Russell Shelter Records t-shirt, bell bottom jeans stuffed into Comanche Indian moccasin boots with tiny bells just below my knees and an old USAF service jacket with the silver buttons replace by large black buttons, which was the youth counter culture style for the day.
My wife and I went out on a blind date on May 3rd and were married on June 28th. The guy who set us up showed me her ravishingly beautiful high school senior picture and said you might remember her from elementary school (I did). I asked him (my brother's college roommate) how much I would have to pay him.
If either her parents or my parents had objected it would not have mattered because it was just us against the world. About four months later I enlisted in the USAF. You can check the date for yourself, in two weeks we'll have 48 years together. Right now my beautiful bride is in the living room playing classical jazz on her piano.
The Preacher is a fool.
“If either her parents or my parents had objected it would not have mattered because it was just us against the world. “
Not germane to this story, unless your “it would not have mattered”, means you would have repeatably gone into her house, even after the parents had told you not to.