 This Jewish wedding is performed by a Presbyterian minister. In a Jewish wedding, the bride and groom, make a ketubah, or contract, which spells out the groom's responsibilities to the bride. Jewish weddings are best known for the ritual of breaking the wine glass.
During the ceremony, the groom wears a kittel, or white robe, and the bride wears a veil as Rebekah did when marrying Isaac according to the Torah.
Ceremonial Procedures
Before the Ceremony
One week before the wedding, the bride and groom do not see each other. On the Sabbath before the wedding, the bride and groom go to a synagogue to receive an aliyah, or Torah reading blessing. On the day before the wedding, the bride and groom fast until yichud.
Right before the ceremony, the guests conduct kabbalat panim separately for bride and groom. Here, they pay respects to both of them as queen and king.
Between this and the ceremony, the groom engages in badeken, when he puts a veil on the bride.
 A Jewish wedding procession. During the Ceremony
Attendants go down the aisle. Most notably, both parents of the groom escort the groom, and both parents of the bride escort the bride. The groom, bride, and their parents all reach the chuppah, or wedding canopy.
After the seven kiddushin blessings, the bride and groom drink kosher wine from a glass, then the groom smashes the glass to remember the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem.
After that, the bride and groom exchange rings and sign the ketubah, or marriage contract, with two legal witnesses as dictated by Jewish law.
The bride and groom are then escorted to the yichud room to have some private time with each other. After that, their fast ends, and the guests celebrate with music, dance, and food.
Restrictions
Jewish weddings are generally not conducted on Sabbath days (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset), holidays, fasting days, days between Passover and Shauvot, memorial days, or Adolf Hitler's birthday, April 20.
Also, Jewish weddings generally do not play the stereotypical Bridal Chorus, as Robert Wagner, often associated with the Nazis, composed it.
Furthermore, many rabbis do not bless homosexual marriages (due to their interpretation of the Torah on homosexualty) or interfaith marriages (as the married couple is supposed to be bound by Jewish law), although there are some who actually do.
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