Is parental consent really important when marriage is considered?

Let's start with this:
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."~ Genesis 2:24

Matthew Henry:
"See here how great the virtue of a divine ordinance is; the bonds of it are stronger even than those of nature. To whom can we be more firmly bound than the fathers that begat us and the mothers that bore us? Yet the son must quit them, to be joined to his wife, and the daughter forget them, to cleave to her husband, (Psalm 45:10-Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house & Psalm 45:11-So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.) See how necessary it is that children should take their parents’ consent along with them in their marriage, and how unjust those are to their parents, as well as undutiful, who marry without it; for they rob them of their right to them, and interest in them, and alienate it to another, fraudulently and unnaturally. See what need there is both of prudence and prayer in the choice of this relation, which is so near and so lasting. That had need be well done which is to be done for life. See how firm the bond of marriage is, not to be divided and weakened by having many wives (Mal. 2:15-And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. ) nor to be broken or cut off by divorce, for any cause but fornication, or voluntary desertion. 5. See how dear the affection ought to be between husband and wife, such as there is to our own bodies, (Ephesians 5:28-So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies"

John Calvin:
"The sum of the whole is, that among the offices pertaining to human society, this is the principal, and as it were the most sacred, that a man should cleave unto his wife. And he amplifies this by a superadded comparison, that the husband ought to prefer his wife to his father. But the father is said to be left not because marriage severs sons from their fathers, or dispenses with other ties of nature, for in this way God would be acting contrary to himself. While, however, the piety of the son towards his father is to be most assiduously cultivated and ought in itself to be deemed inviolable and sacred, yet Moses so speaks of marriage as to show that it is less lawful to desert a wife than parents. Therefore, they who, for slight causes, rashly allow of divorces, violate, in one single particular, all the laws of nature, and reduce them to nothing. If we should make it a point of conscience not to separate a father from his son, it is a still greater wickedness to dissolve the bond which God has preferred to all others."


 It seems to me, that people today don't want to have their parent's advice/encouragement when marriage is considered, hence the reason I put this blog post up.
I have read somewhere about when parents pick someone out for you and you don't like the person that you try to love them, but if you really don't like the person than you ask your parents politely to find someone else...
But if you have found someone it is always best to ask you parents their advice/encouragement/what they think of so and so, what virtues need to be worked on (for both people), ask for their blessing, have their consent, and other important things parents should share.
This being said, I still believe both the male and female need to have a say into the marriage, but they need and I repeat NEED to have parental consent, blessing, advice, etc. when they consider these things.

~Blessings