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SPECIALIST CEREMONIES

Everyone wants a perfect wedding but everyone has different tastes and opinions, different religious beliefs and views on the type of ceremony they'd like. With this in mind, this section is for those specialised beliefs, and to give a helping hand for these individual weddings.

Jewish Ceremonies

•  Bit of background - The Talmud is the Jewish bible. The ritual of husband and wife getting married stems from the time of Adam and Eve. The Torah states that Adam had two faces, one looking in each direction. God split Adam in half, which created Eve. When Eve was reunited with Adam, this created the reunification of a surrendered soul. The Jewish traditions therefore begin in the wedding as the two souls need to be reunited, but the soul can only be manipulated by spiritual labour.

•  What happens - The ceremony takes place under the Chupah, which is a canopy. This is to symbolize the house to be shared and built by the couple. The Chupah is open to all guests on both sides to welcome friends and family in unconditional hospitality. As a sign of the blessing given by god, the Chupah is held outside underneath the stars. Staying with this theme, the bride and groom aren't allowed to wear any kind of jewellery when in the Chupah as their commitment to each other is based on who they are as people and not on their material possessions.

•  Traditions - There are lots of traditions associated with and around the wedding ceremony; Blessings of the betrothal (using two glasses of wine to symbolise), Giving of the ring, Ketubah (the marriage contract), the seven Blessings, Breaking the Glass, Yichud and Seudah (the festive meal after the fast). Then there is the tradition of a shoe on a wedding car is an ethnic symbol of a father relinquishing authority over his daughter. The wedding cake in the Jewish religion is an ancient, ethnic symbol of fertility.