The Traditions

As the wedding was during Hanukkah, we held a menorah lighting during the reception and even sang Hanuakkah songs,” Binyamin remembers. Toward the end of the reception, Binyamin serenaded his new wife with “Eshet Chayil” (“Woman of Valor”). “Traditionally, this song is sung by a man to his wife on Friday nights at the start of Shabbat,” Emily says. “Although this was not the start of the Sabbath, he was marking the first moment he would sing this to me.”