Talk:Wedding march

Popular Culture section
I'm not sure that the popular culture section in its present form benefits the article. Most importantly, it doesn't specify which wedding march is referred to. The music of both Wagner and Mendelssohn is ubiquitous in Western culture, so I'm sure any reasonably comprehensive list would include hundreds of works.--Trystan 16:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I've removed the section from the article for now. It's contents are reproduced below.--Trystan 20:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Good move. Silly trivia sections don't add anything to this article: this is information that isn't important enough even to make it into the articles of the games mentioned! - Nunh-huh 20:05, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Popular culture

 * In Ken Ending, Ken and Eliza entrance in Street Fighter II Series.
 * In Haunted Castle Intro, Serena and Simon Belmont, until Dracula (Castlevania) kidnaps the bride.
 * In Rage of the Dragons, Rock remix of Wedding March called "Matrimelee March" For Final Battle, VS Princess Sissy

Wagner and Mendelssohn
The line "Ironically, while their musical works are often paired today, Mendelssohn, a Jewish composer, was the target of Wagner's anti-Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik." has been removed a couple of times now as not relevant, unencyclopedic, and PoV. To me, it's a perfectly relevant piece of information that establishes the social context in which these two pieces of music originated and developed. That the music of two enemies would end up being eternally united is as interesting and relevant as any other fact in the article. Perhaps saying that it's ironic could be construed as PoV, but that's easily enough removed.--Trystan (talk) 23:59, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

- Yes but it has nothing to do with the fact that they are used in wedding marches. You should be talking about why they are used. i.e why are their works the default wedding marches?. The fact that one was the decendent of a Jewish Rabi [Felix Mendelssohn himself was not of the Jewish faith he was a practising Lutheren] and the other an Anti-Semite and does nothing to the reasons they are chosen together so you've failed in providing any social context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.165.189.103 (talk) 06:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Going into more detail regarding their origins and exploring how they came to be the default wedding marches would be an excellent addition to the article. I don't think removing what little we have on the pieces' backgrounds furthers that goal.--Trystan (talk) 16:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)


 * It needs to noted that he was of Jewish decent and not of the Jewish faith otherwise you're not explaining why he was writing a Christain wedding march. While Mendelssohn was not ashamed of his Jewish roots as his father was [expressed by changing his name a thing Felix refused to do] but he was a strict Lutheren. There probably needs to be more added to give the social context that created the music. Mendelssohn was much more succesfull than Wagner in his own time and widespread anti-semetism towards him did not occur until after his death during the rise of Nazi Germany. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.165.189.103 (talk) 01:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)


 * To my mind Wagner's opinions on the Jews and/or Judaism are completely irrelevant to any discussion of the wedding marches.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 14:44, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Are there any statistics?
The article reads:


 * The traditional processional at Western weddings is the Bridal Chorus from Richard Wagner's Lohengrin, while a traditional recessional is the Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I have never in fact been to a wedding at which either of these pieces was performed. Do people actually have this music played at weddings? Does the word 'tacky' come to anyone else's mind?--Oxonian2006 (talk) 14:44, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Contradiction
According to this article the popularity of the wedding marches originates with the wedding of Queen Victoria. However, the article Wedding March (Mendelssohn) mentions the wedding of Victoria, Princess Royal, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 14:44, 27 July 2008 (UTC)