Wedding Season is Here
Whether performing a Jewish or an Interfaith ceremony, weddings are joyous and a thrill for me – Rabbi Marsha Jane.
In the past few weeks, I have officiated at several interfaith ceremonies. It is very special when I talk to a couple about how to make sure both faiths are represented and one of the things i tell them is about making what I call an “interfaith chuppah”.
It is traditional to put a tallit (prayer shawl) on the top of the chuppah. If you have one to put up, that’s very special. But it is also lovely to have the non Jewish person of the couple put something on top from their family. We have had christening gowns on the chuppah; a mom’s veil; hand made additions to the chuppah such as this past weekend when the groom’s grandma made decorations for the chuppah.
There are other ways to make sure that an interfaith couple/ marriage ceremony represents both people. I embrace officiating Jewish and interfaith couples. It is important to me that the parents of the non Jewish part of the wedding couple, feel just as good, as the family of the Jewish part of the couple.
Jewish or interfaith couples – my job as a Rabbi/Officiant, is to make sure that I bring traditions to the wedding ceremony that reflect who I am as a Rabbi, and who the Jewish part of the couple is; but also makes it appropriate for a non Jewish part of the couple. I have a wedding tomorrow night. Can’t wait to see the couple and be there with my friend and colleague, a priest, to celebrate this beautiful interfaith couple.
Rabbi Marsha Jane conducts interfaith weddings; Jewish weddings; and civil ceremonies. Rabbi Marsha Jane does baby namings for girls and boys; baby naming for couples that I marry is very special; Rabbi Marsha Jane also does funerals and unveilings and memorial services. Rabbi Marsha Jane does destination weddings. Rabbi Marsha Jane can be reached at rabbimarshajane@gmail.com. Also at instagram: rabbimarshajane.
Rabbi Marsha Jane officiates civil and religious ceremonies. Rabbi Marsha Jane is a modern liberal Jew and conducts weddings accordingly. Rabbi Marsha Jane officiates Jewish and Interfaith ceremonies with priests. Rabbi Marsha Jane also officiates wedding ceremonies with pundits, Hindu priests and loves to integrate a Jewish and Hindu ceremony. Many of the traditions are similar.
Rabbi Marsha Jane spends a lot of time with each couple to create a wedding that is personalized and meaningful for that couple. Rabbi Marsha Jane officiates wedding ceremonies for any and all genders. She welcomes all LGBTQ couples. She cares that they love one another and want to get married.
Rabbi Marsha Jane loves to perform baby naming ceremonies wherein she welcomes a new baby into the covenant of the Jewish people.
Rabbi Marsha Jane finds funerals and unveilings and opportunity to comfort a family and to help them with the grieving process. She brings beautiful prayers and a beautiful ceremony to honor the deceased and bring comfort to those who are in mourning.
Rabbi Marsha Jane writes personalized wedding ceremonies for all couples with input from the couple. Rabbi Marsha Jane travels throughout the tri-state area, New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia and Rabbi Marsha Jane has written ceremonies that are partially in French and sometimes even in Spanish. She loves to incorporate traditions from other people’s cultures and faiths so that the ceremony truly reflects the couple.
When a couple’s native language is other than English, she will suggest they do the ketubah in English and in their native language instead of Hebrew. It is in keeping with the tradition. Rabbi MArsha Jane has proofed ketubot that were in English and Spanish; English and Brazilian; English and French.