Weddings

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. We live in a time when couples have a huge range...

Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Wedding Tips, Weddings

Sample Ways to End the Ceremony

Wedding Ceremony, Weddings

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. Benediction You have now affirmed before God, your...

Seven Questions To Consider Before Meeting With Your Interfaith Wedding Officiant

By Rabbi Lev Baesh

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. You’re about to meet with a rabbi or cantor...

Wedding Planning, Wedding Tips, Weddings

The Ring Ceremony

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. Explaining the Ring Ceremony Traditional Judaism...

Clergy Weddings, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

The Seven Blessings

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. Importance in a Jewish Wedding Ceremony The...

Seven Blessings, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

Timing and Location of a Jewish Wedding

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. One of the difficulties of planning a Jewish/interfaith...

Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Wedding Venue, Weddings

Tips for Inclusive Wedding Ceremonies

Wedding Ceremony, Weddings

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. As interfaith weddings are becoming more common,...

From the Wedding Kiss to Conjugal Bliss: A Review of Two Classics on Love and Marriage in the Jewish Tradition

By Marlena Thompson

505 Review of The New Jewish Wedding by Anita Diamant (Simon & Schuster, 268 pp., $10.00) and Heavenly...

Love and Marriage, Weddings

We Have the Bride and Groom–All We Need Are the Parents

By Hal Schneider

461 June 26, 2007. Republished June 30, 2014. Liliana and I met four years ago as student coordinators...

In-laws, Wedding Recap, Weddings

Ritual Wedding Objects and Clothing

Wedding Planning, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

Return to the Jewish Wedding Guide for Interfaith Couples. Ritual Objects and Clothing Ketubah (For more on...

Breaking the Glass, Chuppah, Ketubah, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

The Meet and Greet

By Lula Jones

As you’ve learned from Alx’s last post, we have been on a difficult journey in our quest to find...

Officiant, Wedding Planning, Weddings

Will the Right Rabbi Please Stand Up!

By Alx Block

Our search for the right rabbi is making me nutty. It seems to be this detailed and intricate journey...

Officiant, Wedding Planning, Weddings

Wedding Planners Make It Look Easy

By Lula Jones

So I know what you’re thinking…she’s a graphic designer so her wedding is going to look FABULOUS....

Let us introduce ourselves!

By Alx Block

It dawned on me this afternoon as I was finally able to log into the blog as an author for the first time that...

Wedding Planning, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Cultural Differences in Wedding Planning

By Melanie Herscovitch

Being Jewish has always meant a lot to me. Particularly as I grow older, I realize how much I identify with...

Weddings

Our Interfaith Ketubah Was Everything

By Stephen Bondell

Kathleen and I had been together for four years when we decided the time was right for us to take our relationship...

Ketubah, Weddings

The Wedding!

This was originally published as in InterfaithFamily.com’s Web Magazine. All was ready. Downstairs,...

Christian Jewish Wedding, Co-officiation, Extended Family, In-laws, Newlywed, Reception, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Recap, Weddings

Our Ceremony

Let’s see…you know that we’ll have a rabbi and Methodist minister co-officiating our wedding...

Christian Jewish Wedding, Co-officiation, Officiant, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Weddings

25 Days and Counting

25 days to go! The final countdown has begun and I’m alternating between extreme excitement and nerve...

Christian Jewish Wedding, Co-officiation, Officiant, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Weddings

Moving Day

Christian Jewish Wedding, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Well, for a change it’s been me slacking in the posting department. I’ll give the excuse that I’ve...

Passover Or Baseball?

As most of you know, I have two children from a previous interfaith marriage, and while they are being exposed...

Parenting, Parenting Passover, Parenting Stories, Passover, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Listing Holidays and Goals

Bryan and I have a couple of new tasks to take on this week, after our latest pre-marital counseling sessions...

Christian Jewish Wedding, Co-officiation, Hanukkah & Christmas, Officiant, Other Holidays, Wedding Planning, Weddings

How we found our minister

I know that we’re kind of posting things out of order. But, since it’s apparent that we’re...

Co-officiation, Officiant, Relationships, Wedding Planning, Weddings

Finding a Co-officiating Rabbi