Download Instrumental    File this one under “dumb-ass songs you hope you never have to do”… but you will. One day some bride-to-be will gush, “Oh, and I want you to play ‘Love & Marriage’ right after we cut the cake”. How about right after the band slits their throats.
So, if you’re gonna have to do this tune, you might as well have fun with it.  Frank Sinatra owned this song, even if he didn’t really want to.  So that’s the arrangement I attempted to emulate here.  It’s got some cute plucking strings and titillating flutes, so that makes it kinda fun…  kinda.

The irony of this masterpiece is that it proclaims that love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.  Oh, really?  Seems to me that a horse is blindly hitched to a carriage, back side first, spending its life pulling a heavy load to be rewarded at the end of a hard day with a handful of oats and the random crack of a whip.  Take from that analogy what you will.  Just kidding, folks.  Marriage is a wonderful thing, hitched to a buggy or not.

And as a warning to you new wedding singers out there – you’re gonna have to learn “Chapel of Love” too.  Good thing weddings pay exceptionally well.