--- title: Man Plays What a Wonderful World for Wife on Trumpet description: At Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, a man serenaded his wife with What a Wonderful World on the trumpet canonical: https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-25T15:26:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:04.510Z og:title: Watch a Man Surprise His Wife With a Trumpet Serenade og:description: He showed up to the airport with flowers and his instrument og:url: https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Man Surprise His Wife With a Trumpet Serenade twitter:description: He showed up to the airport with flowers and his instrument twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Man Surprise His Wife at the Airport With a Trumpet Rendition of 'What a Wonderful World' ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 25, 2015 3:26 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 25, 2015 3:26 PM UTC Austin-Bergstrom International Airport recently shared a video of a Texas man named Ed Zamora serenading his wife of 33 years — aptly named Melody — with “What a Wonderful World” in the baggage claim area. In a Facebook post, the airport wrote that Zamora showed up Tuesday afternoon with flowers in one hand and a trumpet in the other. When he saw his wife, who had just come back from a two-week trip to Spain, he started to play as she made her way down an escalator. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/"},"headline":"Watch a Man Surprise His Wife at the Airport With a Trumpet Rendition of 'What a Wonderful World'","datePublished":"2015-09-25T15:26:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:04.510Z","description":"He showed up to the baggage claim area with flowers and his instrument","url":"https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family & Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/","name":"Watch a Man Surprise His Wife at the Airport With a Trumpet Rendition of 'What a Wonderful World'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```