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Originally posted by raeanna74
Just a thought. You could play the traditional wedding march - It's originally a funeral march from an opera. I didn't even use it in my wedding - used Trumpet Volunteer. I can't remember the opera name that it came from. Maybe someone can help me out here. Anyone know the name of the opera? I just gotta laugh that no one seems to know that this song started out in such a somber use.
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The two traditional wedding marches are "Here comes the Bride" (Not the real title) from act III of "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner; the other is from the Incidental music for "A Midsummers night Dream" by Felix Mendelsshon; in context, niether of the pieces are explicitly used for a funeral, but "Lohengrin" gets pretty grim later on.