Weddings & Marriage

There are endless ways to decorate the traditional Jewish marriage contract.

Heterosexual couples have much to learn from gay ones when it comes to designing their wedding ceremony.

For some couples, the bedeken is a chance to set the mood for their wedding ceremony, often in a personalized way.

Couples can often choose a ketubah text that reflects their values and goals.

Either the groom or the couple is called up to the Torah for an aliyah on the Sabbath before their wedding.

The details for scheduling traditional Jewish nuptials.

Seven ways to not stand on ceremony.

Some Jewish clergy perform intermarriages, but not all do.

Ancient customs involving a childless widow.

Jewish marriage is not merely a secular legal partnership, but a union sanctified by God.