Sitting Shiva in the Age of Coronavirus

Coronavirus has impacted everything, even how the Jewish community experiences mourning. In the wake of COVID, sitting Shiva has gone online, switching to Zoom or Skype and adjusting how mourners process their loss.

Category: Loss

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Cutting Your Wedding Guest List Due to COVID-19? Try These Great Tips

Cutting your wedding guest list down during normal times is tough, but cutting it down to essential guests only is even tougher. As COVID continues to upset summer wedding season, here's how to slim down your guest list.

Category: Wedding Planning

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House Hunting Tips To Guide You Through the Early Stages of Married Life

Buying a home together is a big step for couples to take. And if you're on your first home-buying venture, there are a lot of things you and your new spouse need to consider, from the obvious to the subtle.

Category: Marriage

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Grief Etiquette in the COVID-19 Age

Losing a loved one during COVID-19 can make a tough time even more difficult. The memorial industry, like most others, has been been changed by coronavirus.  And so too have etiquette norms for the bereaved.

Category: Loss

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Love and Social Distancing: Alternatives To Postponing Your Wedding

With wedding season completely up in the air and no way to tell when we can get back to normal life, couples are adopting creative and adorable approaches like livestreaming the event to get wed during coronavirus.

Category: Technology

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Tips for Announcing the Birth of a Child

If you have a birth announcement to make, it's a little more complicated than you might expect. After all, when announcing a baby to the world, the details matter. Here's how to announcing the birth of your new child.

Category: Society

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Favor Ideas for Your Child’s Baptism Party

If you're hosting a baptism for your child, you may want to consider getting baptism favors for your guests. A commemorative ornament or gramed photo of the child will serve as a constant reminder of the beautiful day.

Category: Baptism

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4 Common Thank-You Note Challenges and How To Solve Them

Writing your post-wedding thank-you notes is notoriously difficult. Maybe you're a procrastinator, maybe you're tongue-tied. Whatever the case, here's how to break your writer's block and get those thank-yous out.

Category: Wedding Materials

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Ways To Honor Those You’ve Lost

When we lose someone, we often want to come up with a way to properly memorialize them and honor their memory. Here are some simple yet powerful ways to pay your respects to your dearly departed friends and family.

Category: Loss

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A Checklist for Planning a Baptism Party

A baby's baptism is undoubtedly a momentous occasion in the lives of parent and child alike. For parents planning a baptism party life can be hectic. Utilize this checklist to pull off the perfect baptism party.

Category: Baptism Church

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