The Wedding We Never Thought We’d Have
Ten years ago, I heard the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard. Near the end of my Jewish wedding ceremony, I stood under the chuppah as my wife and I and more than 200 wedding guests simultaneously stomped on tiny red light bulbs held in white pouches. The resulting bang and pop was tremendous and it pleased me far more than I imagined it would. It was levity and seriousness, power and weakness, victory and loss, beginning and ending, joy and despair, individuality and community.
Perhaps most astounding was that this beautiful sound marked the close of a ceremony in which I had previously never imagined I would find myself a participant.
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