Father Of The Bride is a comedy starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams and Kieran Culkin in a story about a young woman's father who becomes more and more upset at the news of her forthcoming marriage.
The father of the bride will walk you down the aisle to give you away to your husband-to-be. The term “gives the bride away” comes from the days when you were, in some cases belonging to your father, as he would “own” his daughters. The father gives a dowry or monetary gift to the husband to be. Fortunately, today we don’t view women as o...
Pretty self explanatory – this is the bride’s father. His role is (usually) escorting his daughter down the aisle and ‘giving her away’ to her betrothed.
This is fairly obvious; and his main role is to walk with the bride down the aisle and ‘give her away’ to her fiance(e).