Musically, the song incorporates an off-key piano and a brass band, which Skellern said nostalgically reminded him of a Northern wedding.

[2] Towards the end, a brief excerpt from Mendelssohn's Wedding March played on the Guildford Cathedral organ momentarily interrupts all other instrumentation.

[4] Upon release, the song received praise from Deborah Thomas of the Daily Mirror, who commented "Peter Skellern is bound to plinkety plonk up the pop charts with an every day tale about ordinary folk"[5] and from Charles Fiske of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle who said "it should help establish Peter as a new songwriter of considerable ability and talent".

[6] Bob Stanton of Coventry Evening Telegraph considered it "a pleasant enough, jog-along number" that was "nowhere near as distinctive or original" as "You're a Lady".

[11] Skellern had mixed feelings about this, telling Record Mirror "I felt like getting under the table when they announced the prizes and said that the Novelty Song section had been won by such people as the Singing Postman in previous years!