Bridal Suite was written on the occasion of lyricist-writer Adolph Green's wedding with actress Phyllis Newman in 1960.

[1] The couple, having never received sufficient formal piano training, were "never ... able to achieve that three-handed feat to our complete satisfaction—or anyone else's.

The structure is as follows: According to the specifications in the score, the initial prelude can be performed at the end of the suite as a fourth encore in case it is demanded by the public, but it is not obligatory.

Scored for three hands, the second player uses both hands to play Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude from Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, unaltered, while the first player joins in after two bars playing the main melody of "Just in Time", from the Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne score for Bells Are Ringing.

Initially marked Moderato, it changes to Poco meno mosso four bars before the end, when the first player performs a short quotation from Richard Strauss's Don Juan.

Totalling 26 bars, it is a slow movement where the accompaniment constantly plays quarter-note triad chords.

The first movement consists of a 12-tone row presented by the first pianist at the beginning, which is later exhibited backwards, upside-down and in a retrograde inversion.

After that, a second section ensues, marked Furioso, where both pianos play different versions of the row simultaneously.