In an interview with Bob Boilen in 2019, Ezra gave three reasons for titling the album Father of the Bride,

[1] One is just fond memories of the Steve Martin film which I was just a kid when that one came out I didn’t see the Spencer Tracy one until later in life. I can’t remember if one of the movies was on TV or I saw something about a wedding but I saw the phrase “father of the bride” somewhere and I just started thinking about it. On one level it’s the name of a comedy. It’s fun. It’s almost lightweight. Father of the Bride—It just makes it seem like a fun wedding or something.

[2] and then the more I thought about it I started to feel like there was some Biblical undertones to father of the bride. in the Old and New Testament there’s so much wedding imagery and so many of the metaphors of religion are about marriage: the bride of Christ, or God and the Children of Israel. There’s so much talk of marriage as a metaphor and I’m not married I’ve never been married but I do have a family and i’ve been in plenty of human relationships. And I just started to think about Father of the Bride and that Biblical idea of marriage not as this like literal thing but as a very flexible metaphor for the relationships we have and the things we owe each other and how we relate to each other so there was something that I started to like about that. Maybe also this is the first album I made in my 30s and wanting to write more straightforwardly about interpersonal stuff in a way that maybe when I was young I always wanted to put a twist on and now I’m more exited about some fairly straightforward ideas.

[3] And then I thought more about Father of Bride as this scary figure. It’s the past looming in the background. It’s a moment of transition. These are the things when I started to feel like there’s a richness to this phrase and I always like coming up with a title early on in the process and we had ‘Mitsubishi Macchiato’ that was helpful at first but then I started thinking about ‘Father Of The Bride.’ I always like phrases and words where there’s a very heady pretentious flavor on one side and then on the other side there’s borderline stupidity. I like when there’s a little bit of both.