Re: last child (question from my web page)

[Elliott <enr01...>]

In the past ten years or so, we ( a group of friends in New Orleans) have gone 
to weddings in NY, San Francisco, New Orleans, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and 
Denver. We started several ancient
traditions
After carrying the bride and groom in a chairs we also carry the parents of the 
bride (or groom) in chairs if it was their last child getting married.
Most of the time after carrying the bride and groom we sit them in chairs and 
dance around them.
Sometimes we also sit the parents in chairs and dance around them. Sometimes we 
sit the grandparents in chairs also and dance around them.When we dance around 
them individuals who have special
styles or steps do them as solos in front of the honorees.
The music we use is a medly of Jewish music, klezmer, nava nagila, mayim etc etc
The point is that everyone is there to have a good time. So just do what comes 
naturally.Pick and choose from the above before the wedding and be ready to 
modify it in the wedding as the moment
dictates.
I hope this helps.
    Elliott Raisen     elllllllll

Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky wrote:

> I got news for you!   They do exactly the same in the fancy NY Jewish 
> weddings, including weddings of Holocaust survivors.   Tampa is full of NY 
> Jews or next to the towns with a lot of NY Jews.
>
> Reyzl
>
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> From:  KLEZMER313 (at) aol(dot)com[SMTP:KLEZMER313 (at) aol(dot)com]
> Sent:  Thursday, November 19, 1998 11:18 PM
> To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
> Subject:  Re: last child (question from my web page)
>
> My band does a Krenztl ceremony.....where the parents who have married off the
> last child sit in a love-seat arrangement in the middle of the dance floor. I
> usually have the bride and groom place crowns of flowers on their heads and
> then all the guests form circles around the couple. Small inner
> circle...larger ones as the move outward.
>
> The band then plays and sings "Di mezhinkhe...." and the people start to dance
> slowly around them taking opportunities to move in and say Mazel-Tov.  The
> music picks up pace steadily and before you know it......off we go and
> everyone is dancing.
>
> To end it all we bring it back to the slow pace and "sing the tune out"
>
> I am sure this is probably an adaptation at best and a bastardization at worst
> of what some of the purists on the list may do......but out here in the sticks
> :-)   it works real nicely and is a lot of fun.
>
> mike eisenstadt
> tampa, galut, florida