Italian/Jewish Wedding Ideas

I am Italian and my FH is jewish. Neither of us are relgious, so we are having a non-religous ceremony. However, I would love to be able to include some traditional aspects of both our cultures in our wedding. Not thinking relgious, just more cultural.....

Any ideas?

well at the ceremony you can have an interfaith priest. Or you can have both a rabbi and a priest

as far as cultural things at the wedding just incorporate ideas you like from each tradition. You can do the chair thing for the jewish side, sorry forgot what its called. Also for ceremony you can have a chuppah. For italian things you can incorporate italian food, dances such as the tarrantella, and whatever you like best. If you google italian wedding traditions and jewish wedding traditions youll find tons of info

I think its great that you are drawing from both cultures and including traditions in your wedding.

The 'hora' is the dance that is done at a Jewish wedding. the bride and groom are lifted up in chairs as they are 'royalty' for the night and to be revered. It was my favorite part of our wedding. People loved that dance and in all of our pictures from that moment, there were smiles everywhere.

The wedding canopy or chuppah, the seven wedding blessings, the breaking of the glass, wine, music, shouting Mazel Tov and the rabbi or cantor leading the blessings all are optional but necessary aspects of a Jewish wedding.


Good luck and have fun!

---

Posted by KPAC

I am Italian and my FH is jewish. Neither of us are relgious, so we are having a non-religous ceremony. However, I would love to be able to include some traditional aspects of both our cultures in our wedding. Not thinking relgious, just more cultural.....

Any ideas?

---

for the ceremony or reception or both?

---

Posted by Goldi1021

I think its great that you are drawing from both cultures and including traditions in your wedding.

The 'hora' is the dance that is done at a Jewish wedding. the bride and groom are lifted up in chairs as they are 'royalty' for the night and to be revered. It was my favorite part of our wedding. People loved that dance and in all of our pictures from that moment, there were smiles everywhere.

The wedding canopy or chuppah, the seven wedding blessings, the breaking of the glass, wine, music, shouting Mazel Tov and the rabbi or cantor leading the blessings all are optional but necessary aspects of a Jewish wedding.


Good luck and have fun!

---

yes that is what its called, don't know how I forgot that sorry

Ceremony we are both not religous at all....so we are doing our 'own' thing completely. I'm looking for some ideas for the reception.

I'm catholic and DH is Jewish. I didn't convert since both us are not religious but a Rabbi marry us. It was a simple ceremony - no prayer, etc. We broke the glass and did the Hora dance.

---

Posted by KPAC

Ceremony we are both not religous at all....so we are doing our 'own' thing completely. I'm looking for some ideas for the reception.

---

definitely do the Hora... it's a lot of fun, a great way to get people up and dancing, and there's no real religious basis to it.

blessing the challah (and maybe add an italian wine toast?)

eta: desserts! serve butter horns or rugelah to cover your Jewish side, 7-layer cookies or fresh cannoli for you Italian family.

My husband and I are both Jewish, but not too religious. So we wanted our Chuppah to be different. It was in the center of the room, with candles, crystals and flowers (check our album for photos of it) - it was very 'different'

You can include the Challah (bread) cutting ceremony that the grandfathers do - it's special for the grandfathers and photos, and takes just a few minutes (the only cost is the Challah, which we bought for $10 in Boro Park).