Weddings
We went to one of the most beautiful weddings I've ever been to tonight.
The guys is Tzvi's friend, and he's had a tough time over the past couple of years. His first wife was, um, lets say - a life lesson, and his mom died two years ago. I've spoken to him a couple times, but I've never seen him look so happy.
He spoke under the chuppah, right when he came in. He explained that the yellow rose he was holding was his mother's favorite flower, as well as what she walked down with at her wedding, and the song, "Sunrise, Sunset" the song she walked down to. He then spoke to her, something along the lines of, "Even though you're not here, I know you're watching down on me." There was not a dry eye in the house.
Fine, so that part wasn't happy - that was heart wrenching. But watching him with his new kallah, and dancing with his friends - that was happy. Also happy, his brother is getting married in two weeks, his father is getting married in August, and his younger brother's Bar Mitzvah is this year. So, this was the first of many simchas coming up for the family, and there was just this total happiness surrounding everything.
The kallah's family is conservative, so the first half of the wedding was for the orthodox group, and the second half was for the conservative group. And watching the two of them dance together, there was so much love, so much happiness, so much looking forward to the future.
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There was only one service - orthodox... it was really just the celebration part of the wedding that was split. The first half was separate dancing, with a mechitza, and then in the middle they had the father daughter dance, and then their first dance, and then mixed dancing. It was cute - the guys family was orthodox, so during the mixed dancing part they got totally into it, the brothers danced together... it was a lot of oldies music, so it was easy to have fun. It was really cute.
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