When we were planning the wedding it turned out to be quite challenging to find a wedding dress I was willing to wear. Strapless was in at the time; so was low cleavage. I eventually found a dress with full-length sleeves; it was lower-cut than I wanted but close enough that I didn't try to alter it.
We were fortunate in that Lis's mother is a seamstress, who, at the time, was specializing in bridal gowns.
Even so, we had some conflicts: Lis felt that she wanted to be more covered-up for the religious part than the party afterward.
What her mother designed was a veil/train that was actually a cloak -- it had a train, and a hood which came down as a veil, and also came across the front, covering the collarbones, with longer sleeves, and finishing the coverage of the shoulders.
Oops, I should have said "traditional", in that they're probably not affiliated with OU or the like. But Shira Chadasha has services that are in all ways Orthodox in nature except that they have found ways within halacha (they say; I haven't chased their sources) to permit women to participate in certain parts of the service. At the service I attended women led p'sukei d'zimrah and the torah service, had aliyot, and leined torah, including a bat mitzvah. Men led the other parts of the service (such as the t'filah). I'm told that they require ten men and ten women to count a minyan.
Thanks for your answers! I think that our favorite Israel moments are similar. Besides hiking in the Arava Valley (near Kibbutz Lotan) mine was having breakfast with our other rabbi's brother my first morning in Jerusalem. And Tsfat--with a couple of other birthright kids, I thought I was being all smart by telling them how to ask for directions to the post office in Hebrew. The person just kept saying "What?" and we repeated it in Hebrew several times before we gave up and said it in English and the person said, "Oh, Post Office!" and gave us the directions (in English).
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We were fortunate in that Lis's mother is a seamstress, who, at the time, was specializing in bridal gowns.
Even so, we had some conflicts: Lis felt that she wanted to be more covered-up for the religious part than the party afterward.
What her mother designed was a veil/train that was actually a cloak -- it had a train, and a hood which came down as a veil, and also came across the front, covering the collarbones, with longer sleeves, and finishing the coverage of the shoulders.
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