My little brother did something right? Wow!
Yesterday my lil bro got married….finally. It’s amazing that his wife put up with him for so long, and now they get to spend their entire lives together. 
It was a beautiful wedding. Well decorated, great location and it looked like a great photographer and videographer as well. I’m looking forward to seeing the pictures and the video. …Especially because, to my pleasant surprise, Sophia and I walked down the aisle to the theme of “The Godfather.” It was pretty awesome. In fact, I think we may use that theme for our ceremony. Muahahaha.
Besides the excellent theme music it was really nice seeing my whole family. It’s been many years since we’ve all been together. It sucks that they won’t all be at my wedding, but it was nice to get to see them all just the same. I’m looking forward to getting those family portraits the photographer took, I don’t think we ever had any really.
Jewish weddings are interesting. It basically started out with guests arriving directly into a cocktail hour(ish) while Rabbis, family, and witnesses oversaw the engagement ceremony where the religious wedding contract is inspected and signed. That process took some time and after it was completed the bride and groom were brought before each other for the first time in seven days. My brother inspected his bride and placed a veil on her which then led to the actual wedding ceremony.
The ceremony was really nice. My sister and Grandmother led the way followed by my older brothers and their families each to their own song followed by me and Sophia with our aforementioned theme music. Then my parents brought in my brother at the end of two shotguns. Okay, there wasn’t any shotguns. It was sweet either way. Then the bride’s family walked the aisle followed by the bride’s parents escorting the bride arm-in-arm.
Once the bride is brought under the Chupah (the big square thing they stand under) they commenced with the wedding rituals…or traditions if you think it sounds less creepy. The bride walks around the groom 7 times, then 7 prayers are said by 7 people and then the groom breaks a glass. There are a lot of theories as to why a glass is broken. My favorite being that the glass symbolizes the endless amount of liquor it takes to make a marriage last in these times. Or maybe it’s because liquor is bad and they break the cup to stop alcohol abuse– an ancient political statement? But I digest (yeah, I stole that joke from the Star Wars episode of Family Guy) it was all very nice.
The food was surprisingly good for Kosher catering. Although Ben Roofiestein pointed out that kosher sushi tends to be inferior to non-kosher sushi, it was still pretty good. Kudos on the open-bar.