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Just a quick question…I have a wedding next weekend and it starts on Saturday night a 9:00pm and goes to 2am or something. Is there any meaning to starting so late?

Saturdays are the Jewish Sabbath Day, they arent supposed to do anything from Sun up until Sun down on Saturdays, so if they want to have their wedding on a Saturday it has to be after sun down, which in the summer is obviously going to be later in the evening.

If you are a girl, dont forget that in the Temple you have to have your shoulders covered, be sure if you wear a sleeveless dress that you have a wrap.

Can any Jews tell me in regards to an Orthodox Jewish wedding or Chassidic/Hasidic wedding where either the bride or groom wasn’t born Jewish but converted to Judaism, is there anything different about it? Does the convert’s non-Jewish family usually attend? Is there anything specifically different about it compared to a wedding where both bride and groom were born Jewish?

There is no difference to the actual wedding. Non-Jewish family can attend as guests, but they cannto participate int he ceremony in any way. Thus the people holding the chuppah up all have to be Jews, any person standing under the chuppah has to be Jewish, and any designated witnesses- for either the signing of the Ketubah (marriage document) or to the giving of the ring have to be Jewish.

A note on the ketubah- it is not signed by the bride and groom- only by the witnesses. The civil legal document is signed seperately, the ketubah does not carry legal force in the civil realm, only the religious realm.