Lemuel and Julia Redd have been charged with second-degree felony kidnapping.
They told their 21 year old daughter that they were going on a shopping trip and then drove 390 kilometres to Colorado, spending the night there before heading back the next day, arriving after the scheduled wedding.
Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson said he met with the couple's daughter, Julianna, and her now-husband Perry Myers before charging the parents.
"It is strange that parents would go to that extent to keep an adult daughter from marrying the man that she had chosen to marry," Mr Bryson said.
Mr Myers, 23, had called the police when his bride did not attend a pre-wedding dinner with his parents.
The couple, both students at Brigham Young University, were married at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple in Salt Lake City on August 8.
They are expecting their first child in May.
Lemuel, 59, and Julia Redd, 56, are scheduled to make an initial court appearance on October 26. If the parents are convicted, the newlyweds could spend up to 15 years visiting them in prison.