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winston wrote:Alright, my brass quintet has this piece requested for an upcoming wedding. Obviuosly I will check with the organizers, but I'll ask anyways.

What section of this piece is normally played at weddings? Is the whole thing usually played? (the whole 10 min thing)

Are only the main verses played and repeated over and over again?

Thanks in advance

Depends on how big the church is and how fast the bride marches. Clearly if the bride can spit from the front of the church to the back, you're not even going to get through the first play-through if the bride walks at any sort of reasonable pace. OTOH, if the bride is 90 years old and needs to use a walker and a signal flare to get from the back to the front of the church, you're going to be in for a bunch of repeats.

As for what's played, check out the version on Jerry Lanning's Sibeliusmusic site:

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/sh ... oreid=8367

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winston wrote:Chuck, I think you have the 'Wedding March' mixed up with the 'Bridal March'

Bridal March, from Lohengrin, by Wagner

Wedding March, from A Midsummer's Night Dream, by Mendelssohn

Many people confuse these.

(or you coincidentally gave me the wrong link to the Bridal March)

Winston, sorry--I've got both bookmarked and gave you the wrong bookmark. Here's the right one:

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/sh ... oreid=8117

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schlepporello wrote:Why not just play "Send in the Clowns"?

The bride gets the "Bridal March"; maybe the groom should get "If I Only Had a Brain".

in our part of the world(the south), you usually play for the bride and wedding party to recess-probably 3-5 min.then you either bring the music way down or stop for the minister to invite the attendees to the reception.then either bring the music back up and play to the ending or play a new postlude piece if you stopped. that's the way we do it around here...

winston wrote:I couldn't imagine everyone taking longer than 5 - 7 min to leave the place. (there aren't gonna be that many people). I've never had to play the whole thing at any wedding before either.

They must also be confused.

Could be--the way my group's done it is to play the Mendelssohn until the wedding party reaches the rear of the church, then segue into something else until the church has cleared out.

When it doubt, consult the wedding coordinator...

Chuck(G) wrote:then segue into something else until the church has cleared out.

"Is That All There Is?" is always a crowd pleaser. Then again, something light, like Shoenberg's "Moses und Aron" is also sure to clear those pews.

My quintet played it at a wedding a couple of weekends ago. They had a fairly large wedding party, and we had to repeat it about seven or eight times. We use the version in the Canadian Brass book.

For an outdoor wedding we played at last month, the bride requested all the typical classical wedding stuff, but then she wanted the recessional to be "Walking on Sunshine", made famous by Katrina and the Waves in the mid-80's. There was no arrangement of that for brass quintet, so I found a piano version and adapted it to make my own.

During the prelude at the same wedding, the first trumpet player had some rests, and the second trumpet player had the melody. We were playing in front of a waterfall. Our second trumpet player starting moving around in his chair very strangely and started motioning for the first trumpet player to play the part for him. I was playing at the time too, and had no idea what was going on.

Afterwards, he pointed to the ground by his foot, where there was a very large lizard. The lizard has been up his pants leg only moments earlier. He said he wasn't sure what he should do, if he should get up and start screaming or if he should jump in the water behind him.

I later talked with the mother of the bride and asked her how she thought everything went. She was very pleased with everything, and had no idea about the lizard.

At my wedding ( a whole 3 weeks ago...) I had a tuba / euph quartet play. At the end, they just played 1 or 2 verses and then let the crowd leave at their will. A postlude followed. It was an outdoor wedding, however, so it had more of an open feel to it. Also, the ushers did not excuse each row. 200 people excused by row on a 90 degree day didn't seem like a very good idea.

Just my experience...

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Daryl Fletcher wrote:there was a very large lizard

Come on, hadn't he ever seen a conductor before?

Daryl Fletcher wrote:...there was a very large lizard...

Hey, same thing at my wedding;

no...,


wait;


oh yeah, that was my former mother-in-law.


Nevermind...

If you search on "wedding" at sibeliusmusic.com, "Danse Macabre" comes up as one of the choices.

Chuck(G) wrote:If you search on "wedding" at sibeliusmusic.com, "Danse Macabre" comes up as one of the choices.

I wanted to play "March to the Scaffold" at my son's wedding. He thought it was funny, but decided it MIGHT not go over well with the bride. I guess he was probably right.

Of course, if it's Jennifer Wilbanks wedding, you can always play
"Runaway."

run...run...run...run...RUN-a-WAY