Jewish Wedding FAQs: When, Where, and Whom

When, under traditional Jewish law, you can get married and when you cannot, where to hold a wedding, and whom to invite
Officiating at a Jewish Wedding

Who can officiate at a Jewish wedding? How do you find them, and what should you ask?
Jewish Wedding Checklist

A checklist for planning a Jewish wedding
Jewish Wedding Etiquette for Guests

What to wear, what to bring, what to do as a wedding guest
New Twists on Tying the Knot

Three innovative and creative wedding practices, including a two-act play as wedding ceremony
Creating New Lifecycle Rituals

This article articulates principles of Jewish ritual as the author uses them to create a same-sex Jewish wedding
B’rit Ahuvim: Lovers’ Covenant

An alternative to the ketubah which explicitly rejects the language of kinyan (acquisition) in favor of the mutual language of covenant
Lesbian Wedding

A couple’s first-person account of the process of creating their wedding ceremony
A Blessing for Two Women on the Occasion of their Wedding

A blessing to be read to two women under their huppah
A Traditional Lesbian Wedding

Kathy, Joyce, and their rabbi found innovative ways to rework the traditional wedding ceremony to suit their needs as two women