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
Bridal Chorus William of Prussia in 1858. The chorus is sung in "Lohengrin" by the women of the wedding party after the ceremony, as they accompany the heroine Elsa to her bridal chamber. Although at most weddings the chorus is usually played on an organ without singing, in "Lohengrin" the wedding party sings these words at the beginning of act three. Eight women then sing a blessing to a separate melody. The chorus then repeats the first section, gradually proceeding offstage. Many pastors of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod oppose the "Bridal Chorus" because of both pre-First World War Lutheran opposition to the