Wedding Photos

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Page 3 - The Big Day

The day started rather early for Kyra and Mike and their families and friends. Mike had to go out to the outskirts of Boca to get himself a borrowed kittel (explanation follows later). Meanwhile, Kyra had to apply her makeup, make sure her hair looked good, and get into her dress! Here's step one: Kyra's makeup is getting put on by Steffi.
 

Kyra now has her lipstick and most of her makeup on. Now -- time for the dress!
 

Kyra now has her dress on! She's in the rabbi's office (the bridal room, by the way, has been knocked down to make room for more nursery school rooms at the synagogue, but we digress). Anyhow, Mike has still not had a chance to see her. He's in a completely different room without a camera.
 

Now that everyone's dressed and ready to go, the kabbalat panim, or the traditional greetings of the bride and groom, start separately. While Kyra received her friends and relatives, Mike was busy with something else. As we see here, Mike and friends and family are reciting Mincha, the traditional afternoon service. It's the last communal group service before the big wedding event, and it marks the end of Mike's single life. As you can see, lots of people (both women and men) joined in.
 

Here we see Jason, one of Mike's groomsmen, leading the Mincha service for everyone. After he finished, the tisch started, which was made up of an impromptu d'var torah (a tiny little sermon about the week's Biblical portion) deliverd by Mike. In order to ease the tension and stress, everyone decided to interrupt him with songs, laughter, and more. This all went on until we realized that we were running pretty late, and we had to continue soon before the afternoon turned into early evening.
 

And this is where Mike was ushered out to see Kyra for the first time that day! It was actually the first time that Mike saw her in the wedding dress. And there was much rejoicing. (yay) Here we have some groomsmen singing to Mike on his way out to see Kyra.
 

WARNING: All the white stuff is not all Kyra's veil and dress! Some of it is the fluffy white chair she's sitting in! However, you've gotta admit that it matches pretty well... Anyhow, Mike and Kyra are, well, together for the first time that day.
 

The ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract, needs to be completed and signed before the ceremony. By "completed," we mean that there actually is one Hebrew letter which is not completely printed on the paper. Thus, it is up to Mike to finish that letter, and, in essence, finish the ketubah. He does so while Rabbi Ed Farber and Kyra look on.
 

One of the stipulations of the ketubah is that it requires the signatures of "witnesses" who are unrelated to the bride and groom. The reason they must be unrelated is to ensure that none of them are gaining anything from the union of the bride and groom. In this case we asked friends (from left to right) Melanie Darr, Daniel A. Turner, Reneé Cohen and Steve Kerbel to help us out. Each of them signed a Hebrew name to the ketubah.
 

Bet you thought that only the bride would be wearing white, huh? The kittel is that white robe which Mike is putting on. In the same way that the white wedding dress symbolizes purity, the kittel has the same significance. Normally, the kittel is worn on the Jewish High Holidays, demonstrating the same type of purity and humility towards God. In this photo, you can see Joseph Meszler, best man and occasional kittel-wearer, helping Mike put it on right before the wedding ceremony is to start...
 

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