Interfaith Wedding Ceremony ideas

snowball
Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:06:10 +0000

My family is Jewish, and both our kids married out. My DIL attends an Episcopal church in their city, so her Priest, and what we refer to is a rent a Rabbi, jointly preformed the ceremony at an outside venue. As my son did not belong to a local synagogue, there was not a local Rabbi that would marry them; they had to find a Rabbi that would travel for the ceremony. The kids had a ketubah and chuppah, which my son wanted, where my DIL chose the prayers. She selected ones that would not cause my son’s grandparents to cringe.

The Priest was wonderful, the Rabbi was just fair. My Jewish family and friends all thought the service was beautiful, and I believe my DIL’s family and friends felt the same.

For my daughter’s wedding, she and her husband wanted a Jewish ceremony; SIL was not a fan of organized religion, growing up at the Church of England, so wanted to do whatever my daughter wanted. As we belong to a conservative synagogue, our Rabbi would not marry them, so a local reform Rabbi preformed the ceremony. He had the kids attend marriage consulting with him; as they were living in London, most sessions were by Zoom, although they had one or two in person while in town. I think these session helped my SIL understand that religion was not a terrible thing as he adored the Rabbi. Their daughter attends preschool at a local Temple and will be raised Jewish; this was decided before they got married.