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Timeless Traditions
For engaged couples around the world, this volume is an indispensable, comprehensive guide to the wedding traditions of the major faiths and more than one hundred countries and peoples, spanning the cultures and regions of past and present.
A Bride's Book of Wedding Traditions
Whether it's candlelit and black tie, breezily casual, or sleek and postmodern, every wedding reflects the unique values, taste, and heritage of the bride and groom. Arlene Hamilton Stewart helps today's bride fill her wedding with special meaningful touches by revealing traditions and customs that span cultures and centuries and have symbolized love, luck, fruitfulness, and joy from time immemorial. She shares dozens of ways a bride can adapt these rituals to give her ceremony extra beauty and resonance.
The Creative Jewish Wedding Book
This guide to Jewish weddings will be best appreciated by those who are new to Judaism, those who wish to adapt tradition to personalize their Jewish wedding or those who want to incorporate elements of the Jewish tradition into an unconventional or interfaith wedding ceremony. Kaplan-Mayer writes accessibly and engagingly, leading readers through Jewish customs such as the ketubah, the marriage contract that she encourages them to modify according to their own backgrounds and needs, and the chuppah, the wedding canopy that she helps them envision and create. She tackles food, music, family dynamics and ritual objects ("something oldish, something newish, something borrowed, something Jewish").
Irish Wedding Traditions
There are 45 million Americans of Irish descent - and more that ever, they are fervent in their love of Ireland. Irish Wedding Traditions is a lovely guide that will give couples about to marry numerous ideas for planning a wedding using the conventions and traditions from their Irish heritage. The book is filled with long-forgotten historical and contemporary Irish customs- from vows and rituals to symbolic flowers, food, spirits and song. Included in the chapters are Irish inspired ideas for dressing for the occasion, decorating the ceremony and reception with an Irish touch, designing the perfect Irish wedding invitation, as well as suggestions for registering for Irish gifts.
Mazal Tov!: The Ritual and Customs of a Jewish Wedding
An essential volume for every Jewish couple on the path to marriage, Mazal Tov! Contains the standard liturgy used in Jewish wedding ceremonies throughout the world. It includes blessings and songs, printed in both Hebrew and English, and description of traditional wedding rituals, from exchanging the rings, circling the bride, and sharing the wine to the reading of the wedding contract and the breaking of a glass. Also included are descriptions of the variations in wedding customs practiced by different Jewish communities around the world.
I do! I do! : The Origins of 100 Classic Wedding Traditions
Why do brides wear pearls? Why does the groom need a best man at his side? The origins of these and countless other bridal customs are delightfully unraveled in I Do! I Do!. Steeped in wedding lore and gorgeously illustrated with collectible art from Victorian times through the 1950s, I Do! I Do! is a must-buy for anyone planning a wedding. From the hope chest to the honeymoon, the veil to the vows, this keepsake explains the significance of dozens of classic wedding traditions and provides a wealth of inspiring ideas.
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