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Wedding Planning Guide

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Where do you start to plan a wedding that’s sensitive to both your backgrounds? Right here. This wedding planning guide will help you successfully create a ceremony – and a life – where you are bringing together two families.

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Our Year of Firsts

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Interactive Shabbat Blessings

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Upcoming Events for Wedding Couples

Thu 29

Couples & Conversation – Online (Chicago)

April 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm CDT
Being part of an interfaith/Jew-ish/multi-faith/however-you-define-yourself couple can be challenging, but you don’t need to find the answers alone. This online workshop offers a safe environment to work on creating your religious/cultural lives together. It is intended for seriously dating, engaged and newly married Jewish/interfaith couples in the Chicagoland area.
May 04

Couples & Conversation – Online (Atlanta)

May 4 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Being part of an interfaith/Jew-ish/multi-faith/however-you-define-yourself couple can be challenging, but you don’t need to find the answers alone. This online workshop offers a safe environment to work on creating your religious/cultural lives together. It is intended for seriously dating, engaged and newly married Jewish/interfaith couples in the Atlanta area.
May 05

Couples and Conversation – Online (Denver)

May 5 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm MDT
Being part of an interfaith/Jew-ish/multi-faith/however-you-define-yourself couple can be challenging, but you don’t need to find the answers alone. This online workshop offers a safe environment to work on creating your religious/cultural lives together. It is intended for seriously dating, engaged and newly married Jewish/interfaith couples in the Denver area.
May 06

Planning Your Jew-ish Wedding: Crafting a Meaningful Ceremony – Online

May 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
Learn about the Jewish elements of a wedding ceremony and the deeper meaning behind rituals. This is part one of a four-week series and is led by Molly Kazin Marshall and Rabbi Malka Packer-Monroe.
May 12

Say Cheese! Baking Montreal Cheese Bagels for Shavuot

May 12 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EDT
Join 18Doors and The Wandering Chew to bake a tasty cheese-filled Shavuot treat while learning about this unique Jewish holiday.
May 13

Planning Your Jew-ish Wedding: Creating Your Perfect Ketubah – Online

May 13 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
Join Molly Kazin Marshall and Rabbi Steven Philp for a workshop that will help you craft the perfect ketubah (Jewish marriage document) for your marriage—whether that means selecting existing text or writing custom language. This is session two in a four-part series.
May 13

Couples & Conversation: Parenting Edition (Online)

May 13 @ 8:15 pm - 9:45 pm EDT
Couples and Conversation – Parenting Edition: Building a Life Together as an Interfaith* Family *Intercultural, Dual-faith, Mixed Heritage, Jew-ish . . . Being part of an interfaith/Jew-ish/multi-faith/however-you-define-yourself couple and raising a family can be challenging, but you don’t need to find the answers alone. This online workshop offers a safe environment to work on creating […]
May 20

Planning Your Jew-ish Wedding: Seven Blessings Just for You – Online

May 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
Join Molly Kazin Marshall and Rabbi Malka Packer-Monroe for an interactive workshop exploring the traditional sheva brachot (seven blessings—a Jewish wedding ceremony ritual). Create a custom version with your partner to use in your Jewish/interfaith wedding, your anniversary, your original wedding date that had to be postponed—you name it!
May 27

Planning Your Jew-ish Wedding: Honoring Other Cultures – Online

May 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
Join us for an interactive panel of couples to hear how each of them honored other cultures and faith traditions in their Jew-ish wedding.
Sep 01

Our Year of Firsts – September Virtual Discussion – Online

September 1 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EDT
Open to all engaged or newly married couples who are interfaith (intercultural, dual faith, Jew-ish, etc.), Our Year of Firsts offers you the opportunity to explore the deeper meaning behind Jewish holidays, create new traditions together and meet other interfaith couples.

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Thank you so much for being an amazing officiant and guiding us through our marriage and wedding preparation. You have been a true blessing in our lives! We were so happy to receive our honey bowl and sharing our love letters with us. We both look forward to seeing you soon and exploring more of interfaith Atlanta! All of our love,

– Jacob and Stacey Tygielski

We are very grateful for the beautiful ceremony that you made for us and for the support that you gave us throughout the process. Everyone at the wedding was very happy with the way you blended our two traditions. It was a very beautiful day.”

– Johnathan, Philadelphia

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