Reply To: Choson & Kallah Walking Together Into Wedding Hall – Jewish or Gentile?

“The “Very chasidish” IVe been too did not. but the majority which Id categorize as “regular chasidish” did.”

Many of the regular Chasidish hamon hoam are like many of the non-Chasidish hamon hoam; they too have succumbed to the ways things are done in gentile weddings (in this regard).

“By many, the custom is that the chosson walks out to escort the kallh to the chuppa (IE nisuin of old, where the kallah was brought into the rishus of the chosson),”

Or, by some, the Choson walking the kallah FROM the chuppa (after it concluded) to the yichud room.

“others dont consider the chuppa the nisuin, but, the later parts of the wedding ceremony including yichud and perhaps the hall where the seuda is taking place.”

The hall with the meal after pictures are concluded makes no sense for what you describe. From the picture room to the party room?

“Since when are the chasidishe minhagim the go to answer for everyone else?”

I just used the very Chasidish as an example. It is the same by the very Yeshivish. Do you think that at Rav Malkiel’s sons weddings the Choson walked side by side with the kallah into the hall party room’s women’s section to the announcement of “For the very first time, Mr. & Mrs. Avrumi Kotler!!”?

Which brings up the second part of this issue — the Choson walking into the women’s side of the mechitza (as a result of him walking side by side with the kallah into the hall), itself problematic — and sometimes the women even dancing up the kallah before the Choson left.

Next we’ll discuss the issue of video taken of the women dancing that’s put into the wedding video that the Choson and other male members of the family and friends watch.