page_title: A Canterlot Wedding
section_title: Production and promotion
hierarchical_section_title: A Canterlot Wedding / Production and promotion
caption_attribution_description: The British royal family on Buckingham Palace balcony after Prince William and Kate Middleton were married. Kate wears a wedding gown by Sarah Burton.
context_page_description: "A Canterlot Wedding" is the collective name for the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth episodes of the second season of the Canadian-American animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as well as the fifty-first and fifty-second episodes of the series overall. "A Canterlot Wedding" was directed by James Wootton and written by Meghan McCarthy. It premiered on The Hub on April 21, 2012, with both parts airing as an hour-long event. In the episodes, Twilight Sparkle learns that her brother Shining Armor will be marrying Princess Celestia's niece, Princess Cadance. Although Twilight becomes excited by the news of this royal wedding and realizes that she was a childhood friend, she begins to have concerns about the marriage when she notices Cadance isn't behaving like the friendly, caring individual that she remembered her to be when she was her old babysitter.
  The premiere of "A Canterlot Wedding" was preceded by a major marketing campaign by the channel, which featured interactive content on the network's web site, promotional events, and a print advertisement taking the form of a formal wedding announcement in The New York Times newspaper.
context_section_description: The Hub heavily promoted "A Canterlot Wedding" in the lead-up to its premiere through a "Royal Wedding" advertising campaign. This promotional campaign featured a microsite featuring new games and digital content themed around the episode, previews of the episode posted through social media (including The Hub's pages on Twitter and Facebook), and an advertisement placed in The New York Times' wedding section on April 13, 2012—formally announcing the marriage of Princess Cadance and Shining Armor. Episode writer Meghan McCarthy explained that the ad was placed in the New York Times because the series wanted to "justify something big and crazy and exciting". Actor and wedding aficionado Tori Spelling also made appearances during promotional events for the episodes, including appearances in segments aired on The Hub during the episode. Though she was scheduled to host a "bridle shower" event in Culver City the week before the episode's airing, Spelling cancelled due to pregnancy sicknesses, with Brooke Burke stepping in to take her place.
  The episode marks the last time that series developer Lauren Faust had any input. Faust had previously served as executive producer during season one, and as consulting producer during season two. The episode contains three songs written by series musician Daniel Ingram. For "This Day Aria", a duet song by Princess Cadance and Queen Chrysalis in her Princess Cadance form, Ingram wanted to make the song more emotional than previous work he had done for the series. This has since made the song one of the most popular ones, with having reached over 50 million views on YouTube as of May 2018.
caption: Much of the publicity around "A Canterlot Wedding" resembled the pomp from the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton that occurred a year before the episode's airing.
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