Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your most telling observation here, Ken, is that the bride "laughed out loud" at the comments from the groom's father regarding the reproductive requirements. On 7/31/05 10:26 PM, "Kenneth Frazier" <kennybod@mac.com> wrote: > images@infoave.net (Tina Manley) wrote: > >> It will be interesting to see if the same is >> true in the other families we photograph. > > I attended a Jewish wedding two weeks ago. The groom, and his family, > are Iraqi Jews, recently arrived, and they brought "their" rabbis from > Long Island. The bride is from a "secular" USA Jewish family. The > rabbis' homilies during the service, and the groom's father's comments > (a short sermon) at the reception, were all about the family, how many > children the bride had to have (she actually laughed out loud at that > comment), what she had to do to make her husband successful, etc. There > was none of the usual fluffy love stuff one might hear at a wedding. > > And, yes, Tina, faith and family in traditional cultures are tightly > interwoven. > > Ken