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Private Wedding Vows

The New York Times had a lovely article about how some couples prefer private vows. If you have a subscription, you can read it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/style/private-vows-weddings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Here are a few ways my couples have chosen to say private vows: Sometimes, they want to say their vows during the ceremony, but just to each other. If […]

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Pride Month

Jewish weddings / Judith Seid / June 3, 2021 / gay pride, gay weddings, Jewish weddings, pride month, SecularHumanisticWeddings.com, SecularJewishWeddings.com, weddings

A note for Pride month:It’s 2021 and people still ask me if I perform “gay weddings.” And I still answer them the same way I have since 1987: I perform weddings. I formalize the commitment of people who love each other and want to spend their lives together. That’s it. It is not my

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Remembering Your Loved Ones at Your Wedding

Jewish weddings / Judith Seid / September 21, 2019 / including the memory of a loved one who has died in your wedding ceremony., Jewish wedding, lighting candles to represent those that are missing, loved ones death, seven blessings, wedding

People are getting married later in life than they did 20 or 30 years ago. Because of this, there are often dear relatives the couple would have loved to have been present at their wedding, but who are no longer alive. Sometimes the couple would like to remember them at the ceremony but not in

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