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Hi Bees-

Just curious how people are managing the issue of 5 hr time limit on venues and having a ketubah ceremony before the actualy chuppah ceremony. it's not possible to do both AND have a reception in 5/6 hours.. do people just skip this? Thanks!

i can't see why you won't have time to do the ketubah signing right before your ceremony, even if it's just in the bridal dressing room. you can be doing the ketubah signing and bedecken (if you're planning on doing that) while guests are being seated.

Thanks everyone - we're still on the hunt for a venue but it crossed my mind because these places all have 5 hr time limits, which seems short (4pm ceremony.. 5pm cocktail hour.. dinner at 6.. whole thing over by 9). I think once we pick a venue we'll worry about where everyone will be ahead of time for the bedecken. I just have too many balls in the air - gotta make one decision at a time. Aargh!

Thanks! :)

I might sounds stupid asking this but does the Ketubah ceremony have to be before the chuppah ceremony? I am christian and he is jewish so I am completely lost on that. We were hoping to do it right after the ceremony (because of the whole christian "not seeing eachother before the ceremony" thing) which should also save us some time because we have to wait for everybody to get into the reception hall and our moment alone isn't going to last too terribly long.

@kfricke89: You have  to do it before the ceremony because the Rabbi or whomever you have reads it during the ceremony...

sorry I should have been more clear - I guess I meant the whole bedeken-shebang (where the guys comes up to the room dancing and then there's a signing and celebration). But it's true it won't take long. Our new problem is we're having a ceremony in a public park, so while our venue has a great room for a bedeken, we'll have to just have family come to the venue, then ship everyone over to the ceremony, then they'll all come back to the venue. I smell shuttle. Thanks guys!

@FutureMrsChaney: That isn't necessarily true. He is still going to read the ketubah during the ceremony, we just aren't signing it until after. We would prefer to do it during but the rabbi really doesn't like that and its not a big enough deal for us to push it. If my FI were more conservative then we would have to do it before but being that my traditions are equally as important as his we opted to pick our "battles" and compromise. It doesn't change the meanig of the signing of the ketubah.

@artbee:We are having a rabbi and a minister. The rabbi would prefer to do it after because we are so adimant about not doing it before. He does alot of interfaith weddings so it is nothing new to him.