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A Taylor Swift fan wearing a wedding veil sits at a restaurant next to New York's Madison Square Garden where a 'JUST&T MARRIED' sign is displayed during Taylor Swift's wedding with NFL star Travis Kelce on July 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
July 4, 2026, 8:44 am
Adam Sandler officiates Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce NYC wedding
Signs outside Madison Square Garden venue blare ‘JUST&T MARRIED,’ ending secrecy around much-hyped, star-studded ceremony as adoring fans throng outside
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and ANDREW DALTON
A bride and groom hold a rose as they pose for pictures during a mass wedding ceremony for participants in the "Janfada" ("Sacrifice for Iran") pro-government campaign in Tehran, Iran, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 19, 2026, 7:31 pm
Iran stages mass weddings for couples pledging to sacrifice lives in war with US, Israel
Hundreds of couples marry across Tehran; more than 100 arrive at capital’s Imam Hossein Square in military jeeps with mounted machine guns, are married on stage by cleric
By AFP
Lior and Misha stand during their wedding ceremony in an underground parking lot used as a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 4, 2026, 11:20 pm
Wedding sirens: Under fire, Israeli couple ties the knot in bomb shelter
With all gatherings canceled by war, Lior and Michael decide not to give up on their wedding day and to relocate the celebration to the underground parking lot of a Tel Aviv mall
By ToI Staff
Paramedics at the scene of a wedding in central Israel after the groom suffered cardiac arrest, February 2, 2026 (United Hatzalah)
February 3, 2026, 6:20 am
Groom suffers cardiac arrest at wedding, is resuscitated by guest
Paramedic helps bring back man’s heartbeat, before he is rushed to hospital in serious condition
By ToI Staff
Palestinian couples participate in a mass wedding ceremony in Hamad City in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 2, 2025, 11:24 pm
Mass wedding in Gaza celebrates new life after years of war and tragedy
‘Despite everything that has happened, we will begin a new life,’ groom Hikmat Lawwa says. ‘I used to dream of having a home, a job. Today, my dream is to find a tent to live in’
By WAFAA SHURAFA and MEGAN JANETSKY
Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ateret Shlomo yeshiva chain dance and sing at the wedding of the seminary chief's son, in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, March 11, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 13, 2025, 10:15 am
Outrage as students at state-funded Haredi yeshiva sing anti-Zionist, anti-enlistment anthem
‘We don’t believe in the government of infidels and we won’t show up at their [army] recruitment offices,’ sing thousands of Ateret Shlomo young men at mass wedding
By ToI Staff
Gali Segal and Ben Binyamin seen on their wedding day, July 25, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 27, 2024, 4:51 pm
Couple who lost legs on Oct. 7 walk down the aisle together
Ben Binyamin and Gali Segal were maimed by terrorists’ grenades; after months of rehabilitation, they were wed on Thursday
By ToI Staff
Shirel Tayeb and Reuven Lebetkin are married at Israel's northern border on October 23, 2023. Their planned wedding date took place during the Israel-Hamas war and they chose to move forward with changes. (Courtesy of Lebetkin via JTA)
October 28, 2023, 4:19 pm
Israelis are going forward with weddings despite war and loss in their own families
Unprecedented circumstances call for quick thinking and last-minute changes as rockets fall and men go to reserves – but for many couples the only unacceptable option is canceling
By Deborah Danan
Ishay Ribo singing at the impromptu backyard wedding of Maor and Gal Peretz on October 9, 2023 (Courtesy Yossi Zer)
October 10, 2023, 4:06 pm
Ishay Ribo sings at impromptu wedding for reservist and bride
The soulful vocalist sings at a simple backyard ceremony hosted by neighbors of the family during groom’s 24-hour leave to get married
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: The 'chair dance' at a Jewish wedding. (Flickr/ CC BY-2.0/mariko)
June 12, 2023, 5:44 am
The hora, the hora! How American-Jewish wedding music changed its tune over the years
Musicologist Uri Schreter charts how US Jews have fused old traditions with new since arriving in the country
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)
May 11, 2023, 7:55 pm
Participants in infamous 2015 ‘hate wedding’ avoid jail time, get community service
Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court hands five guests who mocked victim of Jewish terror attack sentences ranging from 200 hours to five months of community work
By ToI Staff
Pictured left to right: Nancy Aucone, Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, and granddaughter Chloe Schachter at the Wedding Salon of Manhasset. (Courtesy Ilana Schachter via JTA)
April 15, 2023, 9:15 am
Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, mogul of ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ bridal empire, dies at 99
Holocaust survivor born in Vienna; family fled to Havana; foresight of ‘Miss Hedda’ to shift family business from fur to weddings transformed it into multi-million dollar entity
By Jackie Hajdenberg
In this handout provided by The White House, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden attend the wedding of Peter Neal and Naomi Biden Neal on the South Lawn of the White House on November 19, 2022 in Washington DC. (Adam Schultz/The White House via Getty Images/AFP)
November 19, 2022, 11:01 pm
Biden’s granddaughter marries at private White House ceremony
Naomi Biden is first granddaughter of a president to marry on Pennsylvania Avenue; weddings are not uncommon at residence, but details of event kept under wraps
By AFP
Alex Zeldin and Tamar Caplan are lifted on chairs during their wedding reception, August 21, 2022. (JC Lemon Photography/ via JTA)
October 17, 2022, 8:50 am
When the Torah cycle ended, their Russian-American romance began
After reconnecting at a Simchat Torah event, Tamar Caplan and Alex Zeldin find chemistry — and matching Jewish ideals — and level up from friendship to lifelong love
By Alix Wall
Illustrative: Israeli students seen on the first day of school at a school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 3, 2022, 1:46 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 3: Sex abuse in religious schools and railroad electioneering
Religion reporter Judah Ari Gross looks at sexual abuse stats and civil marriage via Zoom, and Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses train service and the Balad party
By ToI Staff
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