Ron Chaplin wrote:

>There was a question about who wrote the the Wedding March: Mozart,
>Wagner, Strauss and Handel.  The "correct" answere was Wagner!
>
>I always thought that Mendelssohn wrote it as part of A Midsummer's
>Night's Dream.

To which Dave responded in part:

>There are two wedding marches in common use, one by Mendelssohn, and one
>by Wagner.  It's the Wagner that has been popularized as "Here comes the
>bride".  Mendelssohn's has no popular lyrics I know of.

I just want to expand on Dave's answer in one respect: Wagner's wedding
march (with chorus) is from his opera "Lohengrin".  I'm sure it's available
on some Wagner opera excerpt recordings where you can hear it in it's
original form.

Mark K. Ehlert