By Kari Colmans December 18, 2020, 11:59 am Edit
Claudia Green and Richard Fox were able to have 30 guests at their wedding in September
Get married… don’t get married; thousands of couples have had to alter their altar – or bimah – plans this year in line with the ever-shifting rules.
Kari Colmans interviews resolute newlyweds who tied the knot against the odds in true Covid style
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verybody needs good neighbours, as the well-known song goes. But despite living just doors apart for most their lives, Claudia and Richard, both 32, didn’t meet until they were 16 at a friend’s New Year’s Eve party.
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For our Big Fat Jewish Wedding in 2004, the husband and I registered for gifts on Judaica.com as well as Bed, Bath and Beyond. It was December, so we selected a number of unusual
hannukiyot, each a piece of art as well as a ritual object.
Every year since, we have added a new artisanal menorah to our collection and hosted a big fat Hannukah party, where we risk the wrath of the fire marshal by packing in enough friends to light them all.