After a bomb threat nearly ruined one couple’s perfect wedding, their wedding planners salvaged it with a makeshift chuppah, reported the Jewish Chronicle. Dan and Gaby Rosehill were moments from being named husband and wife by their rabbi at the picturesque Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Just after the ritual sheva brachot, staff from the…
Like raaaaaaain on your wedding day, postponing the happiest day of your life to make other people happy is a little bit ironic. But it didn’t feel that way to Dayna Skolkin and Josh Tillis, a Jewish couple who chose to serve the food from their rained-out Houston wedding to people who were affected by…
Crushed glass crunches underfoot, clusters of chuppahs provide an endless solar eclipse, and everyone is a little bit day-drunk: it’s wedding season and the Jews are out in full force. Here are our favorite recent instances of Jews saying “we do.” Jewish Wedding Inception: Multi-hyphenate famous person Lauren Conrad served in her own wedding planner’s…
A Hindu woman and a Jewish woman tied the knot this week in a ceremony that’s being hailed as Britain’s first interfaith lesbian wedding. “It’s really nice to now have a Hindu wedding here, because it brings both of us together and completes both of us in my eyes,” Miriam Jefferson told the Daily Mail,…
Unless you live in Israel, you’ve probably never heard of Tu B’Av, but it’s one of the happiest of Jewish holidays. In fact, Tu B’Av is the “love holiday” (sort of like American Valentine’s Day), which makes it a perfect day to get married! What is a sure thing at a wedding (besides two people…
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As a Cantor, I’ve sung the Sheva Berachot (seven marriage blessings) countless times and I know the words by heart. They were recited for me at my first wedding some seventeen years ago. My then-husband and I simply followed the familiar formula: place a Jewish groom and a Jewish bride under a chuppah (wedding canopy),…
The big day came and went, leaving a trail of about 100,000 photos on Facebook, and memories of the most spectacular wedding I can remember. The evening was filled with so much love; the food would almost seem secondary — except that the bride was culinary Countess Adeena Sussman, and the food was therefore utterly…
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