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Summary: Makes an Awkward Arrangement Look Outright Silly
Review: Good grief! I've never seen such a silly collection of interfaith ideas. If your faith is really important to you, and if it is also important to your beloved, you'd probably die a thousand deaths before you degraded yourself, God, and your families by using these superficial (and spiritually unauthentic) suggestions. This author seems to feel that the most important point of a wedding is making OTHER people happy -- e.g., the families. Let's face it, if you're marrying someone of another religion, then faith is probably not really that important to you, and it would be a whole lot more honest to get married by a really great JUDGE, than to pretend that you're still really terribly religious. Look, in marriages where both partners are Jewish, there's only a seven- or eight-percent divorce rate. In marriages where both partners are Christian, the divorce rate is between forty and fifty percent -- not great, but still better than the national average. In marriages where one partner is Jewish, and the other is NOT, there is a WHOPPING SIXTY PERCENT FAILURE RATE. My advice is, don't worry about the wedding so much -- worry about the marriage. Advice this author should be offering you!
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Summary: Makes an Awkward Arrangement Look Outright Silly
Review: Good grief! I've never seen such a silly collection of interfaith ideas. If your faith is really important to you, and if it is also important to your beloved, you'd probably die a thousand deaths before you degraded yourself, God, and your families by using these superficial (and spiritually unauthentic) suggestions. This author seems to feel that the most important point of a wedding is making OTHER people happy -- e.g., the families. Let's face it, if you're marrying someone of another religion, then faith is probably not really that important to you, and it would be a whole lot more honest to get married by a really great JUDGE, than to pretend that you're still really terribly religious. Look, in marriages where both partners are Jewish, there's only a seven- or eight-percent divorce rate. In marriages where both partners are Christian, the divorce rate is between forty and fifty percent -- not great, but still better than the national average. In marriages where one partner is Jewish, and the other is NOT, there is a WHOPPING SIXTY PERCENT FAILURE RATE. My advice is, don't worry about the wedding so much -- worry about the marriage. Advice this author should be offering you!
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Summary: ceremonies are too tacky
Review: I found this book to be a good starting point for planning my interfaith wedding. It gave equal dignity to both Jewish and Christian faiths, unlike some other books which want to emphasize one to the detriment of another. My officiants found the book helpful too.
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Summary: Good ideas and very balanced for Christian and Jewish Faiths
Review: I was a little hesitant to get this book after reading the other reviews, but I thought this book was very helpful to creating our wedding ceremony. It gave many different interpretations for traditions, that I am sure one of the interpretations would be favorable to either faith. The translations to some of the Jewish readings made sense and would create a beautiful wedding ceremony.
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Summary: A good reference, but by no means complete
Review: Skip the intro. Skip the blah. Go straight to the sample ceremonies. Whether you are interfaith or not, it is difficult to plan a complicated ceremony. Choosing what elements of each faith to put in, how religious to get, how to maintain balance between faiths, how not to offend anyone... how to choose? (despite what [...] said, being considerate of each other's family's is important... if you want to form a relationship with them at all.) What this book offers that is useful, are several ceremonies of different interfaith combinations: priest/rabbi, JP/rabbi, etc. You get to read and pick what you like, see how other couples combined, and decide what you think works. I agree with [...] that some of the ceremonies are cheesy, but hey, it takes all types. My fiance and I just rolled our eyes and moved on. I planned my ceremony using this book, Devon Lerner's book, and [the internet] for searching for quotes. I found Devon's book slightly more useful as it organizes by section all the different options for readings, ie., all 5 variations on the 7 blessings in one section for easy comparison. Devon's book is also more useful for learning about general trouble spots with interfaith weddings, marriages, and life.
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