Bridal Chorus theater and the pagan elements of Wagner's operas. The Roman Catholic Church generally does not use the "Bridal Chorus"; one diocese's guidelines regarding the chorus state that the chorus is a secular piece of music, that it is not a processional to the altar in the opera, and especially that its frequent use in film and television associate it with sentimentality rather than worship. Bridal Chorus The "Bridal Chorus" () from the 1850 opera "Lohengrin" by German composer Richard Wagner – who also wrote the libretto – is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky parlor car of a train traveling westward from San Antonio towards a late-nineteenth-century Texas town named Yellow Sky. In this section a couple of characters are introduced- Jack Potter, and his bride. Newly married in San Antonio, “They were evidently very happy”. “The bride was not pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue cashmere, with small reservations of velvet here and there, and with steel blue buttons abounding”. Jack Potter is then described briefly as the Marshal of Yellow Sky. He is “...a man known, liked, and feared in his corner, a prominent person...”. Further