It's a bit old-fashioned, but it can be romantic. I would defnitely ask her dad for his "blessing" and not his "permission." It's more respectful to your honey, and plus, if you ask his permission and he says "no," you're screwed.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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