55+ Musicals About Weddings – The Full list of Shows
The following list includes stage musicals about weddings, focusing on ceremonies and wedding-related events. The list includes stories about wedding planning, family dynamics, pre-wedding complications and the unexpected twists that can accompany this special day.
Musicals About Weddings
Musical Type: Contemporary (2007)
Creators: John Bucchino and Harvey Fierstein
Songs About Weddings: Multiple
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: James Goldman, John Kander, and William Goldman
Songs About Weddings: Multiple
Musical Type: Golden Age (1951)
Creators: Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields, George Abbott, and Betty Smith
Songs About Weddings: “Look Who’s Dancing”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)
Creators: Elton John, Tim Rice, Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang
Songs About Weddings: “I Know the Truth”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)
Creators: Joe DiPietro and Others
Songs About Weddings: “Burning Love”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1947)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Songs About Weddings: “What a Lovely Day for a Wedding”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1934)
Creators: Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Songs About Weddings: “Finale”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)
Creators: Irving Berlin and Moss Hart
Songs About Weddings: “Our Wedding Day”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Zippel, and Emerald Fennell
Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding March”, “The Ceremony”, “The Wedding Party”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, Ron Cowen, and Daniel Lipman
Songs About Weddings: “A Private Function”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1928)
Creators: Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields
Songs About Weddings: “Magnolia’s Wedding Day”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Lionel Bart and Joan Maitland
Songs About Weddings: “Is This Gonna Be a Wedding!”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1947)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Songs About Weddings: “My Mother’s Weddin’ Day”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)
Creators: John Hawkins, Richard Hill, Nevill Coghill, and Martin Starkie
Songs About Weddings: “If She Has Never Loved Before”
Musical Type: Pre-Jazz Age (1916)
Creators: Frederic Norton and Oscar Asche
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Procession”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Douglas Carter Beane
Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding: ‘There’s Music in You”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Songs About Weddings: “Another Wedding Song”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Songs About Weddings: “Getting Married Today”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Jim Wise, George Haimsohn, and Robin Miller
Songs About Weddings: “Let’s Have a Simple Wedding”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2024)
Creators: Julia Mattison, Noel Carey, and Marco Pennette
Songs About Weddings: “Madeline Ashton’s Intimate Wedding Extravaganza”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Creators: David Friedman and Peter Kellogg
Songs About Weddings: “It’s a Beautiful Day”, “Finale”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding Dance”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1930)
Creators: Kay Swift, Paul James, and Donald Ogden Stewart
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Bells”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Creators: Michael John LaChiusa
Songs About Weddings: “Out Go the Chairs / Happiness”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: George Weiss, Robert Goldman, Glenn Paxton, and Abe Burrows
Songs About Weddings: “Wasn’t It a Simply Lovely Wedding?”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1958)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, David Henry Hwang, and Joseph Fields
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Parade”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Harold Karr, Matt Dubey, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding-of-the-Year Blues”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman
Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Cole Porter, Susan Birkenhead, and Arthur Kopit
Songs About Weddings: Multiple
Musical Type: Contemporary (2014)
Creators: Irving Berlin, Gordon Greenberg, and Chad Hodge
Songs About Weddings: “Finale”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman
Songs About Weddings: “Betsy’s Getting Married”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)
Creators: Rob Bowman and David H. Bell
Songs About Weddings: “Swing a Merry Madrigal”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
Songs About Weddings: “All the Dearly Beloved”, “Together Forever”, “I Do! I Do!”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: Barbara Anselmi and Brian Hargrove
Songs About Weddings: Multiple
Musical Type: Golden Age (1953)
Creators: Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright, George Forrest, Charles Lederer, and Luther Davis
Songs About Weddings: “Night of My Nights”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, and Jean-Marc Natel
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Chorale”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Gene de Paul, Johnny Mercer, Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank
Songs About Weddings: “The Matrimonial Stomp”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)
Creators: Howard Goodall and Stephen Clark
Songs About Weddings: “Summer’s Day”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1999)
Creators: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Catherine Johnson
Songs About Weddings: Multiple
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Don Appell
Song About Weddings: “The Wedding”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding Ceremony”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1928)
Creators: Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers, Clifford Grey, and Greatrex Newman
Songs About Weddings: “Honeymoon for Four”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2012)
Creators: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and Joe DiPietro
Songs About Weddings: “I’ve Got a Crush on You”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer
Songs About Weddings: “There’s Goin’ to Be a Wedding”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1926)
Creators: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Guy Bolton, and P.G. Wodehouse
Songs About Weddings: “Bride and Groom”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Creators: Paul Whitehouse, Jim Sullivan, John Sullivan, and Chas Hodges
Songs About Weddings: “Marriage and Love”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: Madness and Tim Firth
Songs About Weddings: “Wings of a Dove”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)
Creators: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, and Will Holt
Songs About Weddings: “Wartime Wedding”
Musical Type: Golden Age (1946)
Creators: Noël Coward
Songs About Weddings: “Pretty Little Bridesmaid”
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)
Creators: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Herbert Fields, and Morrie Ryskind
Songs About Weddings: “Tonight”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1982)
Creators: Gene de Paul, Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, Johnny Mercer, Lawrence Kasha, and David Landay
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Dance”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)
Creators: Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally, and Robert Horn
Songs About Weddings: “Maybe Love (Reprise)”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Creators: John Du Prez and Eric Idle
Songs About Weddings: “Finale”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and David Thompson
Songs About Weddings: “Two Little Words”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)
Creators: Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, Bob Martin, and Don McKellar
Songs About Weddings: “I Do, I Do in the Sky”
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1978)
Creators: Jerry Herman, Michael Stewart, and Mark Bramble
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Conversation / Mazeltov”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2001)
Creators: Jason Robert Brown
Songs About Weddings: “The Next Ten Minutes”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin, and Tim Herlihy
Songs About Weddings: Multiple
Musical Type: Jazz Age (1932)
Creators: Vincent Youmans, Edward Heyman, and Brian Hooker
Songs About Weddings: “How Happy Is the Bride”
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Creators: Jim Barne and Kit Buchan
Songs About Weddings: “About To Go In”
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Ervin Drake, Budd Schulberg, and Stuart Schulberg
Songs About Weddings: “Wedding of the Year”