Interfaith couples what did you do?

Nadyne311 Posted: Jul 08, 2006 06:08 PM

Interfaith couples what did you do?

Hi!.... I am Jewish and my FH is Catholic, so we are having an interfaith ceremony. For you out there who have gotten married or will be, is your FH going to break the glass even if he is not Jewish? Or does the Rabbi do it? Thanks!

lipglossjunky73 Posted: Jul 08, 2006 06:20 PM

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Posted by Nadyne311

Hi!.... I am Jewish and my FH is Catholic, so we are having an interfaith ceremony. For you out there who have gotten married or will be, is your FH going to break the glass even if he is not Jewish? Or does the Rabbi do it? Thanks!

we did - but we only had the rabbi there - but you can still do all the Jewish traditions in an interfaith wedding!

stephanielyse Posted: Jul 08, 2006 07:13 PM

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I am Jewish, my DH is not, but we had an entirely Jewish ceremony. DH broke the glass. I know of other weddings where non-Jewish grooms broke the glass as well. If he's comfortable with it, he should do it. Or you could do it together, which is becoming more common.

lipglossjunky73 Posted: Jul 08, 2006 07:15 PM

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Or you could do it together, which is becoming more common.

I didnt know that!!!

MCDO15 Posted: Jul 08, 2006 07:29 PM

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your other option is not to have a reglious ceremony...i don't really practice a relgion and DW is jewish and we just had ceremony about love

D's Girl Posted: Jul 08, 2006 08:01 PM

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Posted by Nadyne311

Hi!.... I am Jewish and my FH is Catholic, so we are having an interfaith ceremony. For you out there who have gotten married or will be, is your FH going to break the glass even if he is not Jewish? Or does the Rabbi do it? Thanks!

I am Jewish and my FH is Catholic. We are both non-practicing in our religions, but I wanted to have a Jewish Ceremony with a Rabbi. We are having just a Rabbi and my FH will be breaking the glass.

It is whatever you are both comfortable with, there is not right or wrong answer.

lacey&mark Posted: Jul 08, 2006 08:01 PM

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www.personalizedweddings.com

i believe they do interfaith weddings. we had father joe for our ceremony and he was great.

weddingbunny Posted: Jul 08, 2006 08:03 PM

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I'm in the same position as you. He is going to break the glass.

We are just choosing whichever traditions are most important to us, and doing those. The glass breaking, to me, can be such a beautiful symbol - I know there's the whole thing about the temple in Jeruselum and whatever, but the first time I had it explained to me, I was told that we break the glass to show that this love will last for as long as it takes to put the glass back together exactly the way it was before.

I don't know where that came from, but I think it's beautiful, and want to reflect it at my wedding.

MissMelissa Posted: Jul 08, 2006 09:11 PM

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i am jewish, hubby is not and he broke the glass and we lit the unity candle, did one thing from each religion

BKtoLI Posted: Jul 09, 2006 08:45 PM

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Posted by pauls bride

i am jewish, hubby is not and he broke the glass and we lit the unity candle, did one thing from each religion

I'm Catholic and he is Jewish and we did these same 2 ceremonies as well as the wine ceremony which supposedly is done by both religions.

LaurenluvsTJ Posted: Jul 09, 2006 09:12 PM

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Posted by pauls bride

i am jewish, hubby is not and he broke the glass and we lit the unity candle, did one thing from each religion

this is what we did. we had an interfaith minister. she explained a little bit about breaking the glass and said that for those of our guests not familar with the tradition it is customary to shout 'mazel tov' afterwards. It was great!