Honoring and Involving Friends and Family in Your Jewish Wedding
Here are some recommendations on how (and when) to involve and include your loved ones in your Jewish wedding.
Rabbi Malka Michel
Here are some recommendations on how (and when) to involve and include your loved ones in your Jewish wedding.
Ketubah might be the most important contract of all. The document that guards the most important treasure in the world – our marriage.
Getting engaged, like other lifecycle events in Judaism, offers us a chance to opt-in to this wonderful and rewarding project we call Judaism
There are times when a Jewish wedding can happen and times when weddings cannot, either according to laws or customs.
Jews see marriage as mitzvah based on biblical and rabbinic texts. Marriage is seen as important for spirituality and closeness with God.
“We were learning what being married Jewishly means and what’s important to us as a couple, then inscribing that into the wedding ceremony.”
There are many Jewish wedding customs out there, finding the right ones for you can help you explore the more subtle emotions of the event.
Making the choices for our queer wedding ceremony including the ceremony, ketubah, sheva berachot, circling, and breaking the glass.