Make Your Own Jewish Wedding: How to Create a Ritual That Expresses Your True Selves

by Ana Schwartzman, Zoe Francesca

Planning your Jewish wedding? Here is your wise, warm, practical, and invaluable guide to all the personal choices that will express you and your partner’s unique qualities and deepest feelings about this wonderful celebration. Most importantly, through tips and stories, this guide to modern Jewish weddings helps you to incorporate your heritage and evaluate your priorities while preserving the essential meaning and integrity of the event for you as a couple.

Genres: Religion

208 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 2004

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really helpful questions in here to discuss with my fiancé

[Zoe · Rating 5 out of 5]

At the time I began this project, I had recently joined the Jewish Renewal congregation at Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley and was interested in the alternative Jewish weddings taking place in Berkeley between gay couples, interracial couples and interfaith couples.

I did a large amount of research on traditional Jewish weddings first, and then conducted interviews with a series of local Berkeley couples I found through word of mouth. I wanted to base the book around six specific couples, but the editor had a different vision.

When I unexpectedly became unable to continue with the project, my colleague Ana agreed to take the project on, and she bravely compiled my notes and completed the book according to the editor's specifications. Thank you, Ana, for bringing this book to completion.