Let's tone down only a selected area:
1. Open your image .
2. Select the brightest image areas (bride and priest).
3. Create adjustment layer Levels.
Move Input Levels sliders to darken selected area. Then carefully play with "light" Output slider
to reduce contrast 
(animation).
OK, the adjustment layer is created; bride's face is quite discernable now. However dark border merging edited area (which means that our selection was not perfect) spoils it all. Let's fix it.
So, let's hide the imperfections:
4. Activate the Eraser 
Tool.
5. Choose a small soft brush.
6. Make sure that the layer Levels is selected in the Layers palette
and the layer mask is active
7. Erase on the layer mask to
clear the dark border (movie).
NB Alternatively, Photoshop CS users may edit this image using the Shadow/Highlight command
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