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.

I think tradition had it that the bride was walked down the aisle to Wagner
and the party left the ceremony to the tune of Mendelssohn.  Fortunately,
"Mendelssohn" was not one of the multiple choices in addition to Wagner.

Walter Meyer