Waiting at the Church is a popular British music hall song by Vesta Victoria. It is sung by a woman who has given her fiancee all her money to buy a ring or a house only to be left "waiting at the church" when she discovers that he is already married. It has featured in a number of films including Here Come the Huggetts, Millions Like Us and I Thank You. Richard Thompson included it on his album 1000 Years of Popular Music.
The song is notable in British politics for being sung by the then Prime Minister James Callaghan at the Annual Congress of the TUC in the autumn of 1978 to indicate that there would not be a General Election that year.[1] Callaghan misattributed the song to the better-known Marie Lloyd, an error which has in consequence become common.[2]