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Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer is a playwright, author and educator based in Philadelphia. She is the author of two books of plays for children, The Magic Tanach and Other Short Plays and Extraordinary Jews: Staging Their Live, as well as two non-fiction books for adults, Insulin Pump Therapy Demystified and The Creative Jewish Wedding Book: A Hands-On Guide to New & Old Traditions, Ceremonies & Celebrations. A 1993 graduate of Emerson College with a B.F.A. cum laude in performing arts, she also earned a Master's degree in Jewish studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Kaplan-Mayer currently serves as Asst. Education Director at congregation Mishkan Shalom. She is married to Fred Kaplan-Mayer and happy mom to two young children, George and June.
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20 Money-Saving Strategies For Your Wedding

Let’s face it: the expenses involved in putting together a wedding are often at the core of wedding-related stress. While most couples have an ideal version of their wedding in mind even before they start planning, few couples realize just how much their dream wedding costs in terms of cold, hard cash. With more and more couples starting out their marriages with student loan and credit card debts, incurring more debt from wedding expenses is far from ideal. With a little planning, creativity and common sense, the twenty tips below can help stretch any wedding budget, so that your ideal wedding can be possible.

Tips for Cutting Down on Wedding Stress

Planning and organizing your wedding can be one of the most fun—and one of the most stressful processes of your life. Acknowledging the stressful part of it up front is actually one of the most important ways that you can help to stay calm and centered throughout your wedding planning.

Creative Catering for Your Wedding

As you envision your wedding celebration, a few key components will come together to define your party: the location, the music and maybe most importantly, the food. Great food makes a great celebration even better and the kind of cuisine you serve will be sure to make an impression on your guests.

Creating Your Wedding Program

A wedding ceremony program serves many different, important purposes in contemporary ceremonies: it is a guide to the order of the ceremony; it is a place to list the members of the bridal party; it is a way to explain any special rituals or customs in the ceremony to your guests; it is a vehicle for the bride and groom to express their thank-yous and acknowledgements; and it is a beautiful keepsake for couples to put in a scrapbook or their wedding album as one way to always remember their ceremony.

Selecting Ceremony Music

When thinking about your wedding ceremony, keep in mind the way that the music you choose for before, during and after your nuptials has the power to set the mood and convey the emotions that you would like your loved ones to experience at your ceremony. Music evokes feeling in a universal way that connects people and helps to build a shared experience.

Writing Your Own Wedding Vows

One of the ways that any couple can make their wedding ceremony feel unique and meaningful is to write and read their own vows. But what if you want to write your own wedding vows but never earned A’s in English class and aren’t sure how to put your thoughts down on paper? Not to worry. With a few simple steps, anyone can bring out the writer within and craft evocative vows in one’s own true voice.

How to Be a Perfect Wedding Guest

Many of us can use a reminder from time to time of proper wedding guest etiquette and the following are some basic guidelines for guests to follow.

Creative Invitations: Wording, Paper and Art

Your invitation sends a message about the style of your wedding—whether it will be formal or casual, whether there is a certain theme or special locale. It also sends a message about your vision of your wedding—the details of color choice, the style of the lettering, the phrases of the wording, any symbols, designs or collages—let your guests know about what will make your wedding unique.

Choosing A Civil Ceremony

In years gone by, a church wedding was considered the only proper wedding and a “courthouse” wedding was more often than not seen as a last resort for eloping couples or for those people who were thrown out of a church. But times have changed, and it has become a perfectly acceptable choice to go with a civil over religious ceremony, especially for those couples without a strong religious or cultural identification.

Wedding Day Rivalries: How to make your Siblings into your Allies for the Big Day

Even in the most supportive sibling relationships, it’s natural for some degree of competition and comparison to exist. Siblings are the people who know us most intimately throughout our entire lives, from our earliest days through adolescence into adulthood. Siblings remember our most embarrassing moments, as well as our proud accomplishments. Getting engaged and planning a wedding is a transitional stage, when a major life change is about to occur. Even with support being their primary intention, it’s natural that engagement can push siblings’ buttons and reveal their own feelings and experiences about marriage.

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