on January 29th, 2010 | Interesting
Make your wedding a dazzler without feeling frazzled
by Pearl Salkin
While wedding day dreams do come true, don’t count on a fairy godmother waving her magic wand to make your fantasy a reality.
Making the hundreds of decisions for your flawless wedding day takes time and careful consideration. And if you speed along and don‘t watch your step, you’ll soon be on a collision course with stress and pressure, the two ingredients that can turn a fantastic fairytale into another episode of “Bridezillas.”
Read the full article here.
on January 3rd, 2010 | Wedding News
It’s alive… It’s alive! Ok, we’ve finally ‘turned the switch on’ in our wedding directory in the Maryland / D.C. region. Big thanks to all those Maryland / D.C. wedding vendors that helped us organize the directory to be a more complete resource for Jewish Weddings in the area. If you know the area and notice that we missed a useful wedding resource, please let us and our visitors know.
www.chossonandkallah.com/maryland
Next on our agenda:
We are currently looking into Chicago, as well as Canada: Toronto and Montreal.
on December 20th, 2009 | Ideas and Inspirations
These custom made wedding greeting cards are just loads of fun. These colorful humoristic creations were made by Mira Scharf, an illustrator and a cartoonist in NYC, and can be used as invites, thank you cards, save the dates, or just for fun. The artist custom-makes a whimsical, cute and simply happy-looking representation of the couple on any background of choice that can be used in oh-so-many interesting ways. Available at her Etsy shop.
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on December 15th, 2009 | Interesting
Happy Chanukkah to all the Chatans and Kallahs out there!!! Now that you’ve found a partner with whom you’ll share the rest of your life, and now that your life has gained a new measure of ‘certainty’, and the ‘uncertainty’ of not knowing if you’ll ever meet the one that’s right for you is a thing of the past, now that some of that ‘darkness’ has been illuminated, we wish you to continue to find illumination in all things.
on December 13th, 2009 | Customs & Traditions
A Chanukah wedding may have a number of halachic implications for both the couple and the wedding attendees.
The Mitzvah To Light in Ones Home
The place where a person lights the Chanukah candles is just as important, even more important, than the time when he or she lights. The halacha requires that the Menorah is kindled in one’s place of residence. (Even though, the menorahs are lit in public places such as shuls, one does not fulfill his mitzvah of Chanukka candles with this lighting.) Temporary residence is also considered one’s residence for the purpose of lighting the candles; i.e. the place where a person sleeps that night is the place where he or she should light the menorah.
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