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"Wedding Song (There Is Love)" is a song written by Noel Paul Stookey in the fall of 1969 and first performed at the wedding of Peter Yarrow - Stookey's co-member of Peter, Paul and Mary - to Mary Beth McCarthy at St Mary's Catholic Church in Willmar MN: Stookey was best man at the ceremony which took place in the evening of October 18, 1969.
Shortly after his Christian conversion, Stookey was asked by Yarrow to "...bless our wedding with a song". According to Stookey "the melody and the words [of "Wedding Song"] arrived simultaneously and in response to a direct prayer asking God how the divine could be present at Peter’s wedding."
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Stookey himself made the first recording of "Wedding Song (There Is Love)" for his 1971 album release Paul and, accompanying himself on a 12-string guitar tuned a tone and a half down: Stookey - "It was played in G-formation, so there's this beautiful second line on the second string. Everybody [has since] tried to play it in E, and there ain't none, there's no string that can do that.".[2] Released as a single the track reached #24 on the Hot 100 in Billboard and reached #3 Easy Listening chart.[3] (Stookey's Paul and album and "Wedding Song" single were credited to "Paul Stookey".) Internationally Stookey reached #31 in Canada and #55 in Australia with "The Wedding Song".
