Back when we were taking our pre-marital/conversion classes at our temple, we met J., a recent immigrant to Montreal from Central America, who had uprooted pretty much his entire life to come here and convert to Judaism. When we met him, he had only been here a couple of months. He’d found a job and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘community’
The Warm and the Fuzzy.
Posted in Married Life, tagged community, friends, Judaism on November 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The change that comes with marriage — Part II
Posted in Married Life, tagged community, home, reflection on October 14, 2009 | 14 Comments »
A month ago, I regaled (ha) you with the tale of receiving and unpacking most of our registry stuff in one go, and then proceeding to admire our new swag so lovingly it was embarrassing. Well, it turns out the nesting instinct has yet to wear off. I am a hypocrite for posting about this, [...]
Community.
Posted in Wedding, tagged community, recap on August 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Today I’d like to talk about our welcome party, which we held the night before our wedding.
I don’t want to sound like a whiny child by including all the various conflicts involved in planning aspects of our wedding with every recap post, but sometimes they are important in explaining the experience. Our welcome party is [...]
Blessed.
Posted in Wedding, tagged community, family, friends, huppah, Judaism, recap on August 26, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I admit that I have been finding the prospect of recapping intimidating. For one thing, it’s hard to write recaps at work (like I did many previous posts, shh!) when all the photos are sitting at home, and the mister and I are finally on similar schedules so we actually get to hang out together [...]
Holy crap.
Posted in Wedding, tagged community, friends, reflection on August 2, 2009 | 19 Comments »
This is really happening, people. We had our aufruf this morning. We took this photo right before leaving, all gussied up:
I was really grumpy and nervous about it because I had looked forward to it as a really intimate, quiet moment pre-craziness, and then my dad invited everyone he knew. But then I walked into [...]
Happy Wedding Day to Bride in Exile!
Posted in Wedding, tagged community on July 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In exile no longer. I am so psyched that the amazing ladies whose blogs I have been following with baited breath are getting MARRIED! If my memory is to be trusted, today is Bride in Exile’s wedding day, and here’s hoping for a beautiful, thoughtful, meaningful, and PARTYFUL day for one of my favourite bloggers. [...]
How weddings define us (but not in a bad way!)
Posted in Wedding, tagged community, reflection on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am such a geedee blabbermouth that I should really not bother trying to write a blog where I am supposedly anonymous. I keep wanting to babble about work because it seems to influence how I view the world so heavily.
As I’ve mentioned before, I work with people’s stories. Lately I have been working with [...]
Slideshows and Globalization: I swear I am going somewhere with this
Posted in Wedding, tagged community on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Slideshows are one of the many things that I love at other people’s weddings, but not at mine (also included in this category: elaborate processionals; chandeliers; veils; meals with less than 5 courses of food, ha!). Something I haven’t written much about (but that I will soon, I’m sure) is my severe centre of attention [...]
The reasons we do things for our weddings:
Posted in Wedding, tagged community, family, friends, planning, reflection on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Weddings are about love. Weddings are about family. Weddings are about community. Etc. etc. etc. We say all sorts of things about what weddings are “about” when going through the decisions we’ve made and why we’ve made them; when discussing what is important to us and what isn’t. I’ve been formulating a little list of [...]
