MemberI just ran across a copy of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding program, which can be found here. Interestingly, the vast majority of the service seems to have followed the Jewish wedding traditions.
MemberMember@Mrs. Meowerson: To be fair, there were also a dozen groomsmen. 😉
One commentator described the wedding this way:
Apparently, we had a nice Visigothic/Germanic/Frankish/Sarum Christian espousal, with no dowry beforehand; and everything else was a Jewish wedding thing or a cryptologist’s poem. Oh, and you can tell the bride was Southern because she brought an army of bridesmaids with her.
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Member@2dBride: love the comment re: the army of bridesmaids
MemberThanks for posting. Now I wish we hadn’t copied our programs yesterday. I feel like there are things with omitted. Oh well.
Membersaving for inspiration…love their descriptions of the traditional jewish aspects of the ceremony. thanks for posting!
MemberThanks for posting! It’s gorgeous… definitely bookmarking for inspiration when it comes time to make my own program!
Memberawesome find on the clinton wedding program!
Love the inspiration
MemberIt seems mostly Jewish because Chirstian weddings are quite boring. We have a unity candle and a couple readings. Jews have a million and one traditions that go into the ceremony (bothe before, after, and during!) I am slowly realizing how lame us Christians can be. We are having an interfaith wedding and our goal was to be 50/50… aside from a pastor and rabbi I am realizing it is going to be more 70/30… but again, only because we have so little to do!
Member@kfricke89: The other reason that interfaith ceremonies often seem mostly Jewish is that Christianity was originally based on Judaism, so most of the Jewish prayers would be right at home in any Christian service. (E.g., there is nothing clearly nonChristian about saying, “Blessed are you, oh Lord our God, who brings forth bread from the earth.) By contrast, a prayer that mentions Jesus would clearly not be at home in a Jewish service. So in the interest of being inoffensive to both religions, you typically end up with a lot more of the Jewish stuff.
Member@2dBride: That is true but in our ceremony Jesus will me mentioned which I know isn’t the norm. Anybody who has a problem with that can honestly just deal because He is such a major part of my beliefs and life that I think it would be wrong to leave His name out. We aren’t going to beat people over the head with it but we aren’t going to go out of our way to hide it either. Fiance is totally supportive and happy that I am standing so strong for what I believe even though the rabbi isn’t thrilled… but he is willing to deal. lol.
MemberI LOVE their wedding programs. In fact, after I saw that picture, I decided to use them as the basis for our interfaith ceremony.
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