Flower girls (and boys) make my world go round

Enough crankiness from this curmudgeon. Let’s talk about how cute kids are. One wedding tradition I will never question is that of the flower girl, because I am a total sucker for all children in all their cuteness. (Obviously I am happy to question the forcing of kids into performing weird gender stuff, but when [...]

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Planning the acquisition of the partnership

Sexy title, huh?
Ok, I think it is clear at this point that I am far more interested in our ceremony at the moment than in any boring details of our party. This is likely because the party was mostly planned long ago and the ceremony is what’s been planned recently, as well as the “holy [...]

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Weddings as connection

Sometimes Meg says stuff that makes me feel like she is writing from inside my brain. Her moving post today is one of those times:
In the Jewish tradition, your wedding day is a personal Yom Kippur, a day of atonement. It’s a day you approach with deep internal meditation, making yourself right with the world, [...]

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Someone get this girl a sedative.

Because this shit is really happening, folks.
Six months ago, the rabbi’s secretary called me up to schedule our “pre-marriage” appointment with the rabbi, in which we were to go over the ceremony and all the related details. It seemed like forever in the future when we made the appointment and I joked about the ridiculous [...]

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Words to wed by

It’s all very well and good to decide to throw out the conventional notion of the bridal party in favour of giving loved ones “honours” instead, but with the clock ticking loudly in the leadup to our wedding, it recently occurred to us that, uh, we need to start finding jobs for people. All in [...]

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