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Friday, January 29, 2010 12:15 PM ESTfrom the editor
In November, I became engaged to my boyfriend of nearly three years. The planning of jstyle WEDDINGS coincided with the planning of my own wedding, making the issue especially meaningful for me. Each gown we selected for inclusion in the magazine was a dress I was seeing through the eyes of a bride, every Jewish tradition was something I wanted to know more about, each “love story” echoed my excitement for my own big day this spring.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM EST
the wedding planner
The outdoor ceremony was just minutes away from getting underway. The bride and her maids were completing their last-minute primping before walking down the long aisle surrounded by birch trees. Because of a snafu by the groom, Heidi Baumgart was flying through the parking lot in a golf cart to get the wedding programs from her hands to the guests before the ceremony began.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTsneak peek
photography by beth segal
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTthe dress
There was nothing ordinary about Nicole and Bobby Weiss’s wedding last December. The Cleveland couple traveled to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where they exchanged vows with sand under their feet and the Pacific Ocean waving in the background.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTsay thanks
Brides and grooms traditionally thank their attendants with a gift, but finding the right token of appreciation isn’t always easy. That’s where experts can help.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTbrides
brides and flower girls
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTthe reception
“i dieted all week to squeeze into my cocktail dress for my cousin’s wedding,” laments University Heights resident Sheila Bowman. “But my will power left me during the reception when waiters began making the rounds with luscious, tempting appetizers like kosher pastrami ramaki, chicken egg rolls, mini-frankfurters in buns, and mushroom-stuffed phyllo dough. Just to be social, I tasted everything.”
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM EST"I do! I do!"
“Tradition, Tradition,” sings Tevye the milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof.” And nowhere is Jewish tradition more lovingly followed than during the marriage ceremony.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTNotes
You’ve said yes to the dress. And to the rabbi, flowers, music, menu, color scheme, invitations, and 1,001 other details. The wedding and reception were everything you dreamed they’d be. And now, finally, all the work related to it is over, right? No. You absolutely must thank everyone who helped you or gave you a gift to start your new life as a married couple.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTunder the chupah
under the chupah
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTlike it was beshert
Some things are just meant to be. Many brides and grooms marvel over coincidences, but none more than Mariana and Alexis Edelman.
Monday, February 1, 2010 3:13 PM ESTthe proposal
“Will you marry me?”
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTbetter the second time around
Marcy Press was 21 when she got married the first time. She happily played the dutiful daughter, allowing her parents, Lois an Norman Press, to plan the wedding of their dreams. “I really didn’t have to get involved,” she says.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTvolunteering for love
Director of volunteers Joanna (Golden) Wyner was the only Jewish staff member at Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Cleveland.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTmore than a marriage
Lola Farron isn’t the mother of the bride, but she tears up thinking about Jenny Dvorkin’s Dec. 27 marriage to Gadi Wininger.
Friday, January 29, 2010 9:30 AM ESTreaders said ‘I do’
We asked readers to send in one shot that best captured their wedding day. We were rewarded with five wonderful photos spanning 67 years.
Friday, January 29, 2010 1:09 AM EST
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