Title: The new Jewish wedding ; revised and updated /
Authors: Diamant, Anita
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Jewish marriage customs and rites.
Abstract: A guide to planning a Jewish wedding includes advice on choosing attire, a rabbi, and vendors, offers examples of readings and invitations, and provides information for converts, non-Jews, and same sex couples.
Contents: Making the tradition your own. -Decisions, decisions. The tradition of marriage. Modern life. Making Jewish choices. -Ways and means. -Planning the wedding. Choosing a rabbi. When and where. Invitations and wedding booklets. Wedding clothes, wedding rings. Theketubah. The huppah. The processional. Witnesses. A Jewish checklist. -Planning the party. Food and drink. Laughter, music, and dance. Photographers and flowers. -A note on remarriage. -Celebrations and rituals. -Before the wedding. Tenaim: celebrating engagement. Celebrating community. Spiritual preparation. The wedding day. -Under the huppah. Betrothal: the ring ceremony. Nuptials: the seven marriage blessings. -Blessings for the simcha. Before the meal. Concluding the festivities. Birkat hamazon -- blessings after the meal. -Creating a Jewish home. -Living as bride and groom. A Jewish home. Tay Sachs and allied diseases Divorce. APPENDICES: Wedding poems. -Brit ahuvim: a reformulation of the Jewish wedding. -Betrothal: tenaim. Ritual prenuptual agreement. -Jewish wedding artists.