Six Weeks!

I suddenly turned to Adam and said, “Do we still need to do anything? Are we good?”

This week’s task: Music List for the DJ.

Only 10 Days Left to RSVP!

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RSVPs–the Deadline is Approaching!

So far we have received nearly half of our RSVPs–to all those who have already responded, we can’t wait to celebrate with you!

Just a reminder: You have 15 days left to send in your RSVP to this extraordinary event! The RSVP Deadline is July 1st!

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Ketubahs of the 21st Century (by Request of Ima In Law to Be)

This is turning into a VERY d.i.y. wedding.

It didn’t take Adam & I long to agree on a design for our ketubah. Like most modern Jewish couples, we want our legal transaction to be a work of art that will be proudly displayed in our home. The choice of design was simple: Jerusalem, of course! The only trick was to find an artist that could replicate the image we had in our heads.

Ironically, when we went to meet with our Cantor at his son’s shul, we came across the exact picture we’d imagined hanging in the front hall of the synagogue. Introduce such a beautiful piece of artwork to the joy of digital photography, and you’ve got a match made in heaven.

We tried marketing the idea to one ketubah artist who loved it, but couldn’t take us on due to prior commitments. So, on to plan B: Share the photographs with a graphic designer at work and, voila! We were on our way!

Unlike the majority of modern ketubahs, ours is being created via computer, a technique very fitting to Adam’s character. We researched texts and put together a version that is a little Conservative, a little Reform, and a lot our own– something very fitting to my own character. Altogether, our ketubah promises to be exactly what we wanted: Something traditional, yet distinictly unique to us.

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