I'm playing the organ and directing the schola (but not the mixed choir) for an EF Nuptial High Mass, and the bride and groom have insisted on including in their wedding program the proper chants in Gregorian notation as well at the soprano line of Mozart's Ave verum corpus. For some reason, they've decided to include these but not the ordinary, Byrd's Mass for Three Voices. They want two congregational hymns, "O sanctissima" and "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name," but the other things are intended for the choir alone, not the congregation. I have clarified this with them, but they still want the chants notated in the program.

This seems very odd to me, especially when these things are preceded in the same program by a rubric stating, "The choir sings the following." They have not included notation for any of the responses, not even the preface dialogue. This is their wedding, not mine, and I'm in no way responsible for the programs, but they did e-mail me the draft to ask my opinion. I told them I wouldn't include those music inserts except for the two congregational hymns. The bride feels strongly about including the chants and Ave verum in the program. Has anyone else dealt with this before? If nothing else, I can't understand why they would want to waste the paper. They're also including all of the sotto voce prayers, so this will be more of a missalette than just a program.