Musical Lists

Musicals About Weddings

The following list includes stage musicals about weddings, focusing on ceremonies and wedding-related events. Additional musical lists are available in the musical database.



A Catered Affair

Music/Lyrics: John Bucchino  Book: Harvey Fierstein

Musical Type: Contemporary (2007)

Songs About Weddings: Multiple


A Family Affair

Music/Lyrics/Book: James Goldman, John Kander, William Goldman

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)

Songs About Weddings: Multiple


A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Music: Arthur Schwartz  Lyrics: Dorothy Fields  Book: George Abbott, Betty Smith

Musical Type: Golden Age (1951)

Songs About Weddings: “Look Who’s Dancing”


Aida

Music: Elton John  Lyrics: Tim Rice  Book: Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, David Henry Hwang

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)

Songs About Weddings: “I Know the Truth”


All Shook Up

Music/Lyrics: Various  Book: Joe DiPietro

Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)

Songs About Weddings: “Burning Love”


Allegro

Music: Richard Rodgers  Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II

Musical Type: Golden Age (1947)

Songs About Weddings: “What a Lovely Day for a Wedding”


Anything Goes

Music/Lyrics: Cole Porter  Book: Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1934)’

Songs About Weddings: “Finale”


As Thousands Cheer

Music/Lyrics: Irving Berlin  Book: Moss Hart

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)

Songs About Weddings: “Our Wedding Day”


Bad Cinderella

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber  Lyrics: David Zippel  Book: Emerald Fennell

Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)

Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding March”, “The Ceremony”, “The Wedding Party”


Betty Blue Eyes

Music: George Stiles  Lyrics: Anthony Drewe  Book: Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman

Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)

Songs About Weddings: “A Private Function”


Blitz!

Music/Lyrics/Book: Lionel Bart  Book: Joan Maitland

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)

Songs About Weddings: “Is This Gonna Be a Wedding!”


Blackbirds of 1928

Music: Jimmy McHugh  Lyrics: Dorothy Fields

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1928)

Songs About Weddings: “Magnolia’s Wedding Day”


Brigadoon

Music: Frederick Loewe  Lyrics/Book: Alan Jay Lerner

Musical Type: Golden Age (1947)

Songs About Weddings: “My Mother’s Weddin’ Day”


Canterbury Tales

Music: John Hawkins, Richard Hill  Lyrics/Book: Nevill Coghill  Book: Martin Starkie

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1968)

Songs About Weddings: “If She Has Never Loved Before”


Chu Chin Chow

Music: Frederic Norton  Lyrics/Book: Oscar Asche

Musical Type: Pre-Jazz Age (1916)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Procession”


Cinderella

Music: Richard Rodgers  Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II  Book: Douglas Carter Beane

Musical Type: 1957 Film/Contemporary Musical (2013)

Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding: ‘There’s Music in You”


Closer Than Ever

Music: David Shire  Lyrics: Richard Maltby, Jr.

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)

Songs About Weddings: “Another Wedding Song”


Company

Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim  Book: George Furth

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)

Songs About Weddings: “Getting Married Today”


Dames at Sea

Music: Jim Wise  Lyrics/Book: George Haimsohn, Robin Miller

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)

Songs About Weddings: “Let’s Have a Simple Wedding”


Death Becomes Her

Music/Lyrics: Julia Mattison, Noel Carey  Book: Marco Pennette

Musical Type: Contemporary (2024)

Songs About Weddings: “Madeline Ashton’s Intimate Wedding Extravaganza”


Desperate Measures

Music: David Friedman  Lyrics/Book: Peter Kellogg

Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)

Songs About Weddings: “It’s a Beautiful Day”, “Finale”


Fiddler on the Roof

Music: Jerry Bock  Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick  Book: Joseph Stein

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)

Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding Dance”


Fine and Dandy

Music: Kay Swift  Lyrics: Paul James  Book: Donald Ogden Stewart

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1930)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Bells”


First Daughter Suite

Music/Lyrics: Michael John La Chiusa

Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)

Songs About Weddings: “Out Go the Chairs / Happiness”


First Impressions

Music/Lyrics: George Weiss, Robert Goldman, Glenn Paxton  Book: Abe Burrows

Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)

Songs About Weddings: “Wasn’t It a Simply Lovely Wedding?”


Flower Drum Song

Music: Richard Rodgers  Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II  Book: David Henry Hwang, Joseph Fields

Musical Type: Golden Age (1958)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Parade”


Happy Hunting

Music: Harold Karr  Lyrics: Matt Dubey  Book: Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse

Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding-of-the-Year Blues”


Harmony

Music: Barry Manilow  Lyrics/Book: Bruce Sussman

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)

Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding”


High Society

Music/Lyrics: Cole Porter  Lyrics: Susan Birkenhead  Book: Arthur Kopit

Musical Type: 1956 Film/Late 20th Century Musical (1997)

Songs About Weddings: Multiple


Holiday Inn

Music/Lyrics: Irving Berlin  Book: Gordon Greenberg, Chad Hodge

Musical Type: 1942 Film / Contemporary Musical (2014)

Songs About Weddings: “Finale”


Honeymoon in Vegas

Music/Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown  Book: Andrew Bergman

Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)

Songs About Weddings: “Betsy’s Getting Married”


Hot Mikado

Music: Rob Bowman  Lyrics/Book: David H. Bell

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)

Songs About Weddings: “Swing a Merry Madrigal”


I Do! I Do!

Music: Harvey Schmidt  Lyrics/Book: Tom Jones

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)

Songs About Weddings: “All the Dearly Beloved”, “Together Forever”, “I Do! I Do!”


It Shoulda Been You

Music: Barbara Anselmi  Lyrics/Book: Brian Hargrove

Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)

Songs About Weddings: Multiple


Kismet

Music: Alexander Borodin  Lyrics: Robert Wright, George Forrest  Book: Charles Lederer, Luther Davis

Musical Type: Golden Age (1953)

Songs About Weddings: “Night of My Nights”


Les Misérables

Music/Lyrics: Claude-Michel Schönberg  Lyrics: Alan Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, Jean-Marc Natel

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Chorale”


Li’l Abner

Music: Gene de Paul  Lyrics: Johnny Mercer  Book: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)

Songs About Weddings: “The Matrimonial Stomp”


Love Story

Music/Lyrics: Howard Goodall  Lyrics/Book: Stephen Clark

Musical Type: Contemporary (2010)

Songs About Weddings: “Summer’s Day”


Mamma Mia!

Music/Lyrics: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus  Book: Catherine Johnson

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1999)

Songs About Weddings: Multiple


Milk and Honey

Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman  Book: Don Appell

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)

Song About Weddings: “The Wedding”


Miss Saigon

Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg  Lyrics: Alain Boublil, Richard Maltby, Jr.

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)

Songs About Weddings: “The Wedding Ceremony”


Mr Cinders

Music: Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers  Lyrics/Book: Clifford Grey, Greatrex Newman

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1928)

Songs About Weddings: “Honeymoon for Four”


Nice Work If You Can Get It

Music: George Gershwin  Lyrics: Ira Gershwin  Book: Joe DiPietro

Musical Type: Contemporary (2012)

Songs About Weddings: “I’ve Got a Crush on You”


Now Is the Time for All Good Men

Music: Nancy Ford  Lyrics/Book: Gretchen Cryer

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)

Songs About Weddings: “There’s Goin’ to Be a Wedding”


Oh, Kay!

Music: George Gershwin  Lyrics: Ira Gershwin  Book: Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1926)

Songs About Weddings: “Bride and Groom”


Only Fools and Horses

Music/Lyrics/Book: Paul Whitehouse, Jim Sullivan  Music: John Sullivan, Chas Hodges

Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)

Songs About Weddings: “Marriage and Love”


Our House

Music/Lyrics: Madness  Book: Tim Firth

Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)

Songs About Weddings: “Wings of a Dove”


Over Here!

Music/Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman  Book: Will Holt

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)

Songs About Weddings: “Wartime Wedding”


Pacific 1860

Music/Lyrics/Book: Noël Coward

Musical Type: Golden Age (1946)

Songs About Weddings: “Pretty Little Bridesmaid”


Pardon My English

Music: George Gershwin  Lyrics: Ira Gershwin  Book: Herbert Fields, Morrie Ryskind

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1933)

Songs About Weddings: “Tonight”


Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Music/Lyrics: Gene de Paul, Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn  Lyrics: Johnny Mercer  Book: Lawrence Kasha, David Landay

Musical Type: 1954 Film/Late 20th Century Musical (1982)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Dance”


Shucked

Music/Lyrics: Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally  Book: Robert Horn

Musical Type: Contemporary (2022)

Songs About Weddings: “Maybe Love (Reprise)”


Spamalot

Music: John Du Prez  Music/Lyrics/Book: Eric Idle

Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)

Songs About Weddings: “Finale”


Steel Pier

Music: John Kander  Lyrics: Fred Ebb  Book: David Thompson

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)

Songs About Weddings: “Two Little Words”


The Drowsy Chaperone

Music/Lyrics: Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison  Book: Bob Martin, Don McKellar

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1998)

Songs About Weddings: “I Do, I Do in the Sky”


The Grand Tour

Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman  Book: Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble

Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1978)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding Conversation / Mazeltov”


The Last Five Years

Music/Lyrics/Book: Jason Robert Brown

Musical Type: Contemporary (2001)

Songs About Weddings: “The Next Ten Minutes”


The Wedding Singer

Music: Matthew Sklar  Lyrics/Book: Chad Beguelin  Book: Tim Herlihy

Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)

Songs About Weddings: Multiple


Through the Years

Music: Vincent Youmans  Lyrics: Edward Heyman  Book: Brian Hooker

Musical Type: Jazz Age (1932)

Songs About Weddings: “How Happy Is the Bride”


Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Music/Lyrics/Book: Jim Barne, Kit Buchan

Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)

Songs About Weddings: “About To Go In”


What Makes Sammy Run?

Music/Lyrics: Ervin Drake  Book: Budd Schulberg, Stuart Schulberg

Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)

Songs About Weddings: “Wedding of the Year”