My Very First Jewish Wedding

by - Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Over the weekend, I was in upstate New York for my friend Sam's wedding.

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Sarah, Jon, me and Emily before the wedding

Sam and I met back when we were freshmen in college living on the same dorm room floor, and we've pretty much been friends ever since.

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Throwback to freshmen year with Sam and Emily

Sam's wedding was the first Jewish wedding I've ever been to, and I have to say I was so impressed with how personalized the whole wedding ceremony was. Sam's sister-in-law is a rabbi and performed the ceremony and she wove in some really sweet and touching stories about Sam and her now-husband Steve.

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Sam walking down the aisle

After seeing a million Catholic weddings that are all pretty much the same (you only get so much wiggle room with what you can do in a Catholic ceremony), it was really refreshing to see such a personalized and unique ceremony.

After the ceremony, it was time to party. We all got to enjoy a cocktail hour while everything was set up for dinner. I don't think I've ever been to a wedding where there was so much food. We definitely ate well.

And then we danced. Lots of dancing.

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Sam and Steve got picked up on chairs.

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We danced some more and we closed the night out with some Journey, a throw back to one of our favorite bar songs from college.

All in all it was a fantastic time, and a great chance for all my college friends to get together to celebrate!

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