Choosing Your Wedding Date - A recent addition to the resource pages, this page lists guidelines for choosing appropriate dates for Jewish and Interfaith weddings. Includes a Java-based Hebrew-Civil calendar converter. Want To Know All About Huppas? - Everything you always wanted to know about huppas (but couldn't find anywhere else). This resource page lists guidelines for choosing and making huppas. This is a very popular page, along with the Wedding Planning Tips page. The Language of Fruit - An Elegant (And Edible) Way Of Conveying The Whispers Of Love. How to be a Jewish Shomer (Best Man) or Shomeret (Maid/Matron of Honor) - In Hebrew the word 'shomer" means a guard or watchman. In the context of a Jewish wedding, it refers to the groom's Best Man or the Bride's Maid/Matron of Honor. The Shomer's main task is to make sure the Groom (Chatan) or Bride (Kallah) gets to his wedding as worry-free as possible. Excellent pointers for BM's or MoH's, Jewish or Not!

Glossary of Jewish and Not-So-Jewish Wedding Customs - Rabbi Sandberg's comprehensive guide to wedding customs seen at Jewish and Interfaith weddings in the United States. This is a very, very popular booklet. The Wedding Guide - Have a question about how some facet of your wedding should be done? Let Rabbi Sandberg's guide give you a new perspective on your wedding ceremony planning. Contains suggestions, solutions (and examples!) to common wedding celebration issues that stymie many couples.

Wedding Day Do's & Don'ts - Compiled by Rabbi Sandberg, based on his wedding ceremony experiences, this is a quick list of what to do and what not to do on your wedding day. Rebbitzin Sandberg's List Of Essential, But Frequently Forgotten Wedding Tips - Rebbitzin Sandberg (Rabbi Sandberg's wife) lists off over a dozen very important wedding planning items that brides (and everyone else) frequently forget. A must-read for brides-to-be from the Martha Stewart of weddings: Mrs. Sandberg! More Wedding Planning Tips - An additional compendium of answers to the most commonly asked questions about Jewish and Interfaith weddings. Rules On How To Have A Happy Marriage - What you'll need to know when the real marriage begins (after the ceremony). An excellent little set of 'rules' as compiled from comments by couples whose marriages have withstood the tempests of time.

Especially For Jewish-Interfaith Couples

• Planning An Intermarriage - Excellent, working advice to interfaith couples on how to announce their upcoming intermarriage to parents, relatives and friends, without giving anyone a coronary. Based on the experiences of Rabbi Sandberg and a number of interfaith couples.
  
  
• Warning Signs That Your Interfaith Engagement Is In Trouble - Based on Rabbi Sandberg's extensive experience with interfaith couples and the unique issues they face.
  
  
• Twenty-Two Ways To Kill Your Interfaith Relationship - Possessing any one of these twenty-two relationship killers by itself will speed up the demise of your interfaith relationship. But having all twenty-two? Then "success" in this regard is virtually assured.
  
  

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