New Jewish Wedding

Provides you with options -- some new, some old -- to create a Jewish wedding combining spiritual meaning and joyous celebration. Shows how you can mark every stage of a wedding -- before, during, and after the ³main event² -- with your own blend of traditional texts and customs. Introduces you to the richness of the Jewish tradition of love and marriage with ref. drawn from Biblical, Talmudic, and mystical texts. Takes you step by step through planning the ceremony and party that follows -- from finding a rabbi and wording the invitation to organizing a processional and hiring a caterer. Samples of invitations and ketubot (marriage contracts) are provided to help you devise your own. Includes examples of poems that can be incorp. into the wedding ceremony or party.Diamant, Anita is the author of 'New Jewish Wedding', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756770310 and ISBN 0756770319.