{"id":8868,"date":"2011-06-29T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweddingyentas.com\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2011-06-28T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:45:26","slug":"jewish-wedding-traditions-rapid-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/jewish-traditions\/jewish-wedding-traditions-rapid-fire","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Wedding Traditions Rapid Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so easy to get caught up in the details of the reception and the expectations you may have for the big day, that it&#8217;s common for modern Jewish brides to forget some of the details and customs of a Jewish wedding. <\/p>\n<p>We all know the big ones: we can identify the chuppah, the bride and groom sign a ketubah, there&#8217;s the whole stepping-on-the-glass thing, and when it&#8217;s time to party, people toss us around in chairs. Yes, those big moments are just par for the Jewish course.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other rituals and facts you may not know about. The Wedding Yentas isn&#8217;t going to go into immense detail on each one, but it might be important for you to graze on this information and take in this food for thought (yes, I am a Jewish girl and I use a lot of food metaphors in my writing) as you mull over the kinds of traditions you may want to include in your Jewish wedding. <\/p>\n<p>So here, a little buffet (there I go again) of tid bits that you may or may not know about:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/four-seasons-westlake-village-jewish-wedding-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"David Michael Photography four seasons westlake village jewish wedding\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/four-seasons-westlake-village-jewish-wedding-1.jpeg 580w, https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/four-seasons-westlake-village-jewish-wedding-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> During the week before the wedding, it is customary for the groom and bride not to see each other, even during the day.\n<li>From a few days prior, until a week after the wedding, the couple are considered royalty and are, therefore, not to be seen in public without a personal escort.\n<li>Since on the day of one&#8217;s wedding G-d forgives the bride and groom of all their previous transgressions, it is seen as a private Yom Kippur for the couple.\n<li>Jewish weddings may be held anywhere &#8211; there are no religious limitations on the location of the wedding ceremony.\n<li>Traditionally, a bride will go to the mikvah, a purifying bath, on the evening before her wedding in order to begin her married life in a purified state.\n<li>It is a custom that the groom wears a kittel (white garment) under the chuppah. Therefore, he does not wear a kittel on the Yom Kippur following his marriage. On the following Yom Kippur he begins wearing a kittel.\n<li>Knots on the groom&#8217;s garments (e.g. tie, shoelaces, etc.) are to be untied.\n<li>The groom should not have money, silver articles, gold, precious stones, etc. in his pockets at the time of marriage.\n<li>Two sisters may have their weddings in the same week, but not on the same day.\n<li>Mothers of the bride and groom break a plate! Breaking a plate symbolizes the seriousness of the couples&#8217; intentions towards one another. A smashed plate cannot easily be made whole again; just so, an engaged couple cannot easily renege on their promise to be married.\n<li> In recent times, friends of relatives of the bride will often decorate a plate for this ceremony, knowing full well it will soon be broken into little pieces. The shards are distributed to the bride&#8217;s single friends as good-luck pieces.\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/four-seasons-westlake-village-jewish-wedding.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"David Michael Photography four seasons westlake village jewish wedding\" width=\"580\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/four-seasons-westlake-village-jewish-wedding.jpeg 580w, https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/four-seasons-westlake-village-jewish-wedding-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What traditions do you think you&#8217;ll include in your ceremony? Are you observing customs prior to the actual wedding day? Is there anything you&#8217;d like to know more about? 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