The parents of Jessica Hershberg have seen her in a wedding dress more times than they can count.

As an actress who is always a bride, never a bridesmaid, she has gone onstage as a singing mail-order bride in the comedy musical “Idaho!,” as a preacher’s daughter in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and as a bride with cold feet in “It Shoulda Been You.”

Last year on Broadway she even stepped out twice a week as Ella, the lead of “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” to give the headliner a rest.

But on Sept. 5, Betsy and Theodore Hershberg escorted their 29-year-old daughter along a flower-strewn path in the Catskills, where she walked the aisle without having to pretend. “Today, she’s wearing the dress for real, with her real-life prince by her side,” said her father, a professor of history and urban planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

Trying their best to avoid tripping over the bride’s fan-shaped train, her parents had brought the merry procession to a halt with a little stumble.