from a Washington Post article:
Rabbi Kenneth Block stood waiting under the white canopy with Melanie’s husband-to-be, Michael Pezzula. Next to them were a decorated ketubah (a Jewish marriage contract) and a tall, white table that held a wine glass for the Kiddush, a blessing over the wine that would be recited as Melanie, 28, and Michael, 32, drank from the same cup to symbolize the sharing of their life together.
In many ways, it looked like a typical Jewish wedding ceremony. Yet neither bride nor groom is Jewish.
The inclusion of so many Jewish traditions in the ceremony uniting Melanie, raised Episcopalian, and Michael, raised Catholic, was their way of making their wedding special, they said.
A Jewish wedding was “a refreshing departure from what everybody that is close to us is used to,” Melanie said.
read the rest here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...vYN_story.html
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