Ouch!that’s my soon to be ex-wife’s ring tone.
That song was composed by an overworked neurological doctor, who chose to have a go at singing for a while.
Tell that to the bride! From what I’ve heard the groom might as well enjoy his brandy while his bride goes through the excitement!
Sooner or later, he will be emotionally closer to the former than to the latter, anyway!You mean big expense, right?
It all depends on the diocese and the Pastor. If there’s no diocesan ban and the priest has no idea of the background of the Mendelssohn and the Wagner pieces or even knows who those composers are, you are less likely to see a ban on them.
But you don’t have the entire congregation singing, “there’s no time for us, there’s no place for us,” on a routine basis?It all depends on the diocese and the Pastor. If there’s no diocesan ban and the priest has no idea of the background of the Mendelssohn and the Wagner pieces or even knows who those composers are, you are less likely to see a ban on them.
Some priests really couldn’t care less what you have as music for a wedding. My former pastor, now parish administrator, is one of those. At weddings we regularly see CD players and anything goes. Shania Twain is a favorite and she’s not exactly known for hymns.
No, left to him: “Today we’ll sing #542 in CBW III. We’ll sing verse 1 & 2 for the entrance and 5 & 6 at the end.”
Congregation singing at weddings?? As if…
hahahahahaha!!! I’ve cantored at well over 100 different Catholic parishes in 8 different states and I can count on one hand the times when the congregation/guests actually sang at those weddings. They don’t even say the spoken responses sometimes. There was one wedding where the priest kept tsk-tsking the guests for not participating loud enough on the recited and sung responses. He’d make them repeat everything like they were school children if he didn’t think they said it loud enough or with enough gusto. The thing was half of the guests weren’t even Catholic.
Very true. Even in parishes where they do not allow the Wagner and Mendelssohn, sometimes the pianist or organist will pull out some piece from an obscure opera or ballet and because the priest doesn’t know where it is from they get away with it. And truthfully, unless you knew these works, most people wouldn’t know.
Yikes!Some priests really couldn’t care less what you have as music for a wedding. My former pastor, now parish administrator, is one of those. ** At weddings we regularly see CD players and anything goes. Shania Twain is a favorite and she’s not exactly known for hymns.
I’ve seen John Lennon’s “Grow Old With Me” or have more than once in one particular diocese had to sing “One Hand, One Heart” from West Side Story. Since the pastor approved it, I had no say and had to sing it. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love WSS, but it technically isn’t appropriate for during a mass since it is from a musical.Exactly. If I recall, it is played as a married woman falls in love with a jerk (who’s head is ironically turned into that of a donkey). I onetime saw an article about it with the following title:
Same thing with the Wagner “Bridal Chorus”. Elsa and Lohengrin never consummate the marriage due to Elsa breaking her promise about never asking Lohengrin his origins. Long story short… he abandons her and she dies of a broken heart.
That’s right (I studied it last year). Great story! Great love story? Not so much.
I have LOVED this processional, ever since I was a little girl.
I love traditional music, especially Te Deum by Charpentier. Bach’s Air on a G string is lovely too. I also like the idea of a hymn as a wedding processional (like Queen Elizabeth or the Duchess of Cambridge used).