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Minhag: Jewish customs.
Mitzvah: A good deed.
Mizinke: Festive dance honoring parents whose last single child has married.
Mizrahi: Jews of Middle Eastern descent.
Nissuin or Nuisin: Nuptial ceremony.
Noche de Bano: Sephardic celebration after the bride visits a *mikvah* before her wedding.
Orthodox: Very strict, traditional interpretation of the Jewish religion and its customs.
Oyfruf: Torah honor to the groom (and sometimes bride) on the Sabbath before the wedding.
Rabbi: Officiant who usually presides over a Jewish wedding but does not marry the bride and groom per se -- they marry each other.
Reconstructionist: Movement advocating a naturalistic understanding of Judaism as the product of the religious experience of the Jewish people throughout history.
Reform: Movement that aims to combine Jewish tradition with modernity.
Sephardi: Jews of Spanish, Portuguese and North African descent.
S'eudah Mitzvah: Celebratory meal following a religious ritual.
Shabbat: Jewish Sabbath, beginning Friday at sundown and ending Saturday at sundown. It is forbidden for a Jewish wedding to take place on Shabbat because in Jewish law, Jews should celebrate each joyous occasion independently and not combine two joys.