Mr. Burkhart, the grouchy neighbor, was played by Ron Howard's real-life father Rance Howard.
The ministers, Gil Crawford and Bernie Cross, who do a "double act" wedding ceremony for Howard and Marian Cunningham, are played by Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, of the famous "Bob & Ray" radio comedy team.
In many episodes past, viewers get to see the Cunningham's front and side/driveway/garage outside areas of their house, but this is the first episode the viewers get to see the Cunningham's backyard.
The title refers to the composition "Here Comes the Bride" which is also known as "The Wedding March", "The Bridal Chorus" and "Treulich geführt" from the opera "Lohengrin" by the German composer Richard Wagner and was first performed in Weimar, Germany in 1850.