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The Jewish wedding rite has an indisputable charm: it is rich in symbolism and its function is engaging and full of customs, including rituals, songs, and litanies with a Middle Eastern flavor. The bride’s dress is strictly white, while the groom can wear a tallit, the traditional blue-striped white prayer shawl.
A Jewish destination wedding in Italy can maintain the Italian touch and Jewish traditions on various aspects of the wedding: florists and designers can ideate a personalized Huppah, artisans can create handmade Ketubah and, above all, kosher catering that can serve delicious dishes Italian and kosher wines.
Before the wedding ceremony begins, the groom goes to the bride’s room to see her before she covers her face with the veil. This tradition is based on the biblical episode of the patriarch Jacob, who married the wrong woman because her face was covered with a veil.
The ceremony takes place under a fabric canopy, Chuppah, or Huppah, a symbol of the future home of the couple, and is celebrated in front of a rabbi. It consists of a cloth or a sheet, sometimes a tallit. The rabbi begins by blessing a glass of wine that is delivered to the couple’s parents, to give it to their respective children. The exchange of rings is not a Jewish tradition, but, before reading the Ketubah, the groom will deliver the ring he intends to give to the bride to the Rabbi.
The Ketubah is then read by the rabbi and signed by the couple: a document that reports the financial obligations assumed by the husband towards his wife on the occasion and during their marriage, obligations that derive from Jewish law. Finally, the rabbi recites, on a second cup, the seven blessings that will protect marriage.
The couple drink from the glass which is then placed on the ground and broken by the groom, to remember the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, or according to other interpretations, to drive out the demonic spirits. A popular belief says that the groom who fails to break the glass on the first try will be dominated by his wife.
