Interfaith Wedding

I pronounced Dan and Rachel husband and wife under a chuppah outside the Latourelle Resort in Ithaca, New York on October 19, 2008. It was a beautiful, but cool fall afternoon, so I was glad to see the bride and her attendants wore pretty shawls over their dresses. The interfaith service included a reading of 1st Corinthian 13 and the Seven Blessings that are traditional in a Jewish wedding. The service ended with a wine sharing and breaking of the glass. Nobody had remembered to put the wine out for the ceremony, so two waiters came out, each bearing a glass of wine, not realizing we only needed one for the ritual! The bride and groom sipped from the same cup, "symbolically affirming that throughout life they will experience both joy and sorrow, but always together."