Today we're sharing a video of a Jewish wedding that took place last December on the beach of a remote island in Thailand that has no roads. The Australian groom met his South African bride while rock climbing in Asia.
Why Thailand? Well, it's roughly half-way between South Africa and Australia. Eighty of their
friends and family traveled across the world to attend the wedding. Talk about destination weddings!
The couple were married in a traditional Orthodox ceremony by a South African rabbi who happened to be the grandson of the rabbi who had married the bride's grandparents on the same day two
generations earlier in South Africa. You'll notice the signing of the ketuba at the chatan's tish, the badeken ceremony, the bride circling the groom during the ceremony, and the use of an RCA ArtScroll Life Cycle Madrikh (guide to performing life cycle ceremonies) by the rabbi.
The videographers deserve a lot of credit for shooting for 17 hours straight, walking and running over 12 miles between locations, each carrying 22 pounds of video gear all day in sweltering heat.
It's not exactly Jewish humor, but it clearly fits into our category of Yiddishe nachas. If you're looking for humor in this video, we can call your attention to:
- Monkeys cavorting on a fence
- Locals smoking home made cigarettes
- Wedding procession marching to Hebrew version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
- Fire dancers at nighttime reception
- Launching fire lanterns into the night sky
- Launching fire lanterns into the night sky
Mazal tov! Enjoy!
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The world's most portable religion.... and it works EVERYWHERE! I don't just see a wedding, I see a Jewish future... with supportive family and friends.
ReplyDeleteThis is sad. This couple (and the 80 family members who traveled to be with them) could have had a lovely wedding for say, a quarter of what was actually spent, and the remainder would have made a wonderful contribution to fighting poverty, disease and suffering in the world. The Jewish values exhibited in this wedding are counter-balanced by so much that in superficial, materialistic and, to my mind at least, un-Jewish.
ReplyDeleteLOVED IT - THANK YOU!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not an Orthodox wedding but many traditional aspects and a beautiful couple enjoying the benefits of wealth and family and love in a magnificent setting.
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