How to get exercise at sheva brachot:

[taylweaver]

Assign the first bracha to someone at one end of the long table. Then assign the second bracha to someone at the other end of the table. Repeat five more times. It is especially entertaining if you manage to pick two people who are sitting next to each other for non-consecutive brachot, and have the one person between them sitting at the opposite end.

My father got his exercise yesterday evening.

My family hosted a sheva brachot at his office. It was about... 30 people? Take two tables, put them end to end. Repeat on the other side. Then put a table crosswise at the head and at the foot, making one large square. Feels roomy, but also cozy. It was good. Also low-key and casual.

The wedding on Sunday was beautiful as well. It was also wonderful that the entire family was invited. We got a wonderful photo of ourselves.

And the bride and groom got about five sets of photos via people who used Snapfish (myself included - did I mention I uploaded 75 photos of the wedding?) and yesterday, two days after the wedding, they had already ordered over 100 photos to be printed - and were going to pick them up from Walgreens (you can do that on Snapfish) on the way home.

Digital cameras are a wonderful invention.

Comments

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

The way I see it, an Upper West Side sheva` berakhot needs a good distance between mevarekhim. How else can there be enough time between berakhot to sing that wedding niggun?

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. That's what we all said too. Though I was a bit disappointed that we kept singing the first half but never the second half - no one seemed to know there *was* a second half.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

That's really a shame. Did you know that the wedding niggun (which I believe is originally a Bobover march) works as a highland bagpipe tune?

[hampsblog.livejournal.com]

That certainly sounds like an entertaining way to distribute brachot at a sheva brachot. Who's wedding was it (was this a family member or a friend)? That's also pretty cool with the camera. I'm not quite as up on this technology as I perhaps should be. Anyway, just wanted to say hello, and thank you for the welcoming comments for livejournal of a few weeks ago. Have a Happy Pesach!