Daci S.


Age: 24

Affiliation: Reform

Occupation: Research Assistant, Student

Wedding Date: June 2009 at the Bride’s Childhood Synagogue in Baton Rouge, LA

About Me: I’m planning a modern and slightly quirky wedding. The wedding will include a lot of DIY ideas (I like to think I could be a designer in another life!) with a yellow and gray color palette. My reception will feature a Klezmer band that also plays a lot of New Orleans jazz style music which will appeal to our mostly Jewish, mostly out of town guest list. The majority of our vendors have ever dealt with a Jewish wedding before so planning has been quite interesting!

Shalom, y’all!

Posted by DJ

Almost one year ago, just before the first night Passover Seder, two Jews attended a very Baptist wedding in a small Louisiana town…..

That’s us! (We were way overdressed – people were wearing jorts!)

The wedding was a total culture shock, but it must have inspired something. On the way home, as we pulled the car in front of of our newly rented house, my fiance pulled this out:


Taken a few minutes after he proposed… my favorite part is that my seatbelt was on the entire time. Safety first!

Afterward, we celebrated with my fiance’s family and some friends. The celebration included wine, matzo balls and my personal favorite, hard boiled eggs (I always call dibs on Elijah’s).

How did two Jews find each other in Louisiana? We were two out of a handful at our huge university and were both on the board of the newly formed Hillel – I was President, he was Secretary. The commentary he inserted into the minutes from our first board meeting was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read and I knew then that I was interested in him.

After a brief period of not seeing each other when Hurricane Katrina shut down our school for two weeks and we both went to our respective hometowns to help at shelters, I received a text message – “Will you go to Kol Nidre with me?”

Now here we are 3 years later, planning our wedding for late June. Stay tuned for updates including the frustrations of explaining a Jewish wedding to Cajuns – especially our vendors, who seem to think I am mistaken when I tell them our wedding is being held on a Sunday!

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2 comments

1 Posted by The Mrs. { 04.07.09 at 9:08 pm }

That ring is gorgeous DJ! Is that an heirloom?
(Leave it to me to be totally girlie and ask about the ring) ;)


2 Posted by DJ { 04.14.09 at 2:54 pm }

haha, it’s not an heirloom, but everyone asks me that. A friend of mine had a similar ring, I mentioned that I liked it, and voila, mine was suspiciously similar! (Does that count as ‘heirloom’?)


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