Weddings

Tzedakah at a Wedding

By RITUALWELL.ORG

An article excerpt provides some quick ideas.
Leftover food can be packed up and often picked up by an organization that will deliver it to a local homeless shelter. Other organizations accept donations of bridal dresses for brides in need. Flowers can be taken to a local hospital or nursing home. (Other couples choose to replace the floral centerpiece with a note saying that the money which would have been used to purchase flowers has been donated to charity.)

You may want to consider giving to charitable organizations relevant to the occasion of a wedding: organizations that work for gay rights (since gays do not enjoy the privileges of legal marriage at this time) or organizations which fight for agunot (Jewish women who cannot remarry because their recalcitrant husbands refuse to grant them a religious divorce).

Wedding Couples Say, "I Do" To Tzedakah

By JULIE CHIZEWER WEILL

Through a Jews for Justice Wedding Fund, a wedding couple can support groups that combat the causes and consequences of poverty.

Returning the Favor: Everyday (and Not-So-Everyday) Meaningful Acts of Kindness

By RABBI SUSAN FENDRICK

“A wedding is a test of ethics," said a recently married friend in the months of our engagement. We tried to remember this—in our tzedakah decisions, and simply in erring on the side of doing the right thing whenever we could.