Category — Wedding News

• Birthright Israel does a mizvah and throws a couple a wedding (Project We Do)
• How to plan a traditional Jewish Wedding meal (ehow)
• Our bridal blogger Bevin got hitched! (My Personal Cantor)
• Some Israeli Men Look to Latinas as the perfect partner (Jewish Journal)
• The ketubah, before, during, and after the wedding (Bridal Association of America)
• It’s a small world – A Chuppah Tale (The Jewish Press)
• US Couple are first couple to marry in 20 years to marry in a Dunedin, New Zealand synagogue  (Otago Daily Times)
• Everything you need to know about the horah (BZ Events)
• The challenges of celebrating the holidays in an interfaith marriage (Amy Koehler)

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Jewish wedding related news and stories from around the web:

-A couple takes to the theater to make their vows (Journal Star)
-A mother celebrates two Jewish weddings, but only one marriage ME (Portland Press Herald)
-Comedian Jessi Klein’s hilarious sketch about her sister’s wedding at Disney World (The Moth)
-A bride tells of getting ready the morning of  her wedding (A Practical Wedding)
-Bklyn Bride features a wedding at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Arts (BklynBride)

Jewish wedding related news and stories from around the web:

-A Jewish girl and a Palestinian guy celebrate their wedding in this video short (Channel 13)
-Madonna can see herself marrying Jesus – most likely in a Kabbalah ceremony (MSNBC)
-A Jewish-Catholic-Shinto-Greek wedding (LA Times)
-Processionals, recessionals, and seating for a Jewish wedding ceremony. (The Knot)
-Instructions for making a DIY Chuppah (Project Wedding)
-Earth friendly Chuppah ideas (TheGreenBrideGuide)
-A joke about a couple preparing for a religious wedding who meet with their rabbi for counseling (RedvKathy)

Jewish wedding related news and stories from around the web:

• Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner set a wedding date (Page Six)
• A Jewish take on the infamous JK wedding dance (JDub)
• A bride’s father doubles as her wedding rabbi (Tablet)
• Fact or Fiction? Cross dressing at Jewish weddings in the Middle Ages (CuriousJew)
• A Jewish bride tries to keep her second wedding simple (Aish)

Stories of Jewish Weddings in the news and around the web for the week of June 22-28th

• Jewish Wedding Network highlights Camp Weddings
• A couple diagnosed with swine flu proceeds to wed
• Debbi Ballard becomes the first Cantor to be certified to perform underwater weddings
• The first Hasidic wedding in East Hampton takes place
• A Bay Area Chabad hosts a home grown wedding
• A husband promised his wife $1 Million in their ketubah and a Rabbinic court insists he pay the sum
• A Rabbi blogs about changing attitudes towards intermarried Jews and their families
• OffBeat Bride blogs about a Jewish Rockabilly Wedding

I’m not sure whether to say “Oy Vey” or “Mazel Tov!”

In addition to their veil and yarmulke, Ilana Jackson and Jeremy Fierstien donned surgical masks and latex gloves to their June 14th wedding. The reason? The couple had contracted swine flu just 48 hours prior to their big day. After being assured by their doctors that they would not be putting their guests at serious risk, they decided to move forward with their wedding at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park, Illinois.

Some last minute concessions had to be made–rather than walk down the aisle, the couple kept 10 feet of distance from their guests, choosing instead to walk around them.  The hairstylist that the bride had hired refused to do her hair, so a friend took over instead.  The couple also gave out hand sanitizers as party favors.

Despite the circumstances, the couple remained in good spirits.  Jeremy Fierstien, who is studying to become a rabbi was quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying “We were determined to make the most of a bad situation,” “Was it unfortunate? Yes. Disappointing? Yes. But we’ve had a really good attitude about it.”

To that, I say “Amen.”

Photo Credit: Studio Photography/Sukit Subaneksanti