Reina & Elie's wedding Miami - The Chuppa

It is Chuppa time which usually takes from 30-45 minutes, like most weddings there is the processional with the grooms family entering first. Under the chuppa the groom puts on his kittel though I have seen it done before the processional, and then the brides family enters..once under the chuppa the bride walks around the groom 7 times followed by kiddushin and then the ring exchange, ketuba reading, 7 blessings and finally the breaking of the glass. Unlike other wedding ceremony's the recessional is a big boisterous affair with the bride and groom being danced down the aisle by friends.













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Reina & Elie's wedding the Tish - B'deken

Next up is the Tish and B'deken a joyous fun filled hour with the male family and friends in one room pumping up the groom with lots of table pounding, singing and dancing also during this time the ketuba is signed. The bride is in another room with all her female friends and family being greeted by all the guest and while its true the women always have the best food the men always have the best scotch.....and then in a very fast 5 minutes the men dance the groom to the bride where he greets her for the first time and covers her with the viel.












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Reina & Elie's wedding Miami

After a much needed break I am back to work. Lots of things going on, I will be debuting my new site exclusively for ipod, ipad, and iphone, well I will just say it apple users, it should be up and running by the end of the week and can be accessed from my home page, all html no flash needed. Though iusers only make up about 5% of my site visitors I am all about 100% inclusion.

And now to Reina and Elie's wedding held at the doubletree hotel in Miami. I thought it would be a great way to show what happens during a typical modern orthodox Jewish wedding. I get lots of emails from new photographers not sure what images to capture with the many small but important moments that happen throughout the most times long wedding day.

First up 11:20 am the bride getting ready in the bridal suite. As with most weddings the dress, flowers, jewelery, shoes etc...and of course the bride, I never photograph the brides face until she is made up I then photograph during the touch up. Last shot 12:16 pm.

Next up I will skip to the Tish-bedekin which is 3.5 hours later after many, many family portraits.









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Jacob's Bar Mitzvah Boca Beach Club

Jacob's Bar Mitzvah celebration held at the Boca Raton Beach Club was all about fun and food, just an awesome display of epicurean delight. Jeffrey and his crew from Platinum Gold as usual kept everyone partying non-stop....







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Sami's Reception B'nai Torah Boca Raton

As promised here is the sneek peek at Sami's Bat Mitzvah Celebration held at B'nai Torah in Boca Raton...much thanks to Sami for being such a great subject i couldn't take a bad photograph of her if I tried.











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Sami's Bat Mitzvah B'nai Torah Boca Raton

I was so happy to have the opportunity to photograph Sami's Bat Mitzvah at B'nai Torah last week....She is just the best!!! never without that big smile even in between shots. and yes I do photograph at Temple's other than B'nai Torah it just seems that they come in waves this is my third Mitzvah there in a s many weeks. Lots of fun at the reception which will post next week so stay tuned.

Romy's Bat Mitzvah Celebration

As promised here are some of the images from Romy's 50's themed party at Ellies Diner in Delray Beach. Awesome party!!!!!!









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