When iVillagers Stacia Ragolia and Jason Jesner decided to have an interfaith wedding ceremony, their first step was deciding which parts of each of their faiths they wanted to bring together. By keeping open minds, they were able to create the day of their dreams, and their ceremony program is proof:

Greetings: Father McDermott and Rabbi Roy Rosenberg

Opening Prayer: Father McDermott
Father, hear our prayers for Stacia and Jason, who today are united in marriage before your altar. Give them your blessing and strengthen their love for each other.

Lighting of the Unity Candle by both mothers

Rabbi Rosenberg: We now ask that Stacia and Jason's mothers Monica Ragolia and Laurie Jesner approach the altar and each light one of the tapers of the Unity candle. These candles are a symbol of the light they have each brought to their children's lives, which will soon be joined as one in marriage.

First Reading: Ruth 1:16-17
Read by a family friend
And Ruth said: Do not entreat me to leave you, or return from following after you: for whither you go, there I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God; where you die, I will die, and there I shall be buried; the Lord so to me, and more also, if aught but death part you and me.

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