Frederik’s Church, better known as the Marble Church, is not only one of Copenhagen’s most beautiful and iconic buildings—it also hides a pretty wild history behind its construction, as well as a few highly unexpected episodes in more recent times.
Here’s one of the funniest and most charming anecdotes, tying the church to royalty, art, and one very confused bridal couple.
Today’s Anecdote
The story of the wedding, the brass band, and the wrong church
In 2004, a foreign (German) couple planned to marry in Copenhagen. The bride was a big fan of Danish architecture, and they had chosen Frederik’s Church as their wedding venue—its impressive dome, marble columns, and, not least, its perfect acoustics for the brass ensemble they were bringing along. Everything was prepared. The music was ready. Guests arrived in elegant dresses and suits, and a trumpeter took his place in front of the church’s grand entrance, blasting a triumphant fanfare that echoed down Bredgade. But… something was off. “Who’s the bride…?”
Inside the church, another bridal couple was already seated. With a pastor. And guests. Also ready for a wedding—though in quiet Danish tradition, without fanfares and German brass flourishes. A few seconds passed. Then a guest from the German party stepped forward politely and asked the pastor:
“Wir sind hier für das große deutsche Hochzeit?” The pastor, completely calm, replied: “This is the little Danish wedding. The big one will come soon. But you are two hours early.”
The German group had mixed up both the time—and the date.
And then… trumpet! As a kind of unofficial apology, the trumpeter suddenly started playing “Here Comes the Bride” right in the middle of the church, completely disrupting the Danish ceremony already underway.
One of the Danish guests—a grandmother—allegedly remarked:
“Well, that was quite an entrance… perhaps harder to forget than the wedding itself.”
Aftermath
The two bridal couples ended up taking photos together in front of the dome and became “Insta-friends” (before the word even existed). The German bride later said:
“If we have to share a church with someone, it’s beautiful that it’s with people we don’t understand, but can still smile with.”
Bonus curiosity: The church took over 150 years to build!
Frederik’s Church was begun in 1749 as a massive prestige project under Frederik V. But construction stalled for more than a century, and it was only in 1894 that the dome was finally completed and the church opened. For decades, the site stood as a giant ruin in the middle of the city, sarcastically nicknamed
“The Eternal Construction Site.”
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