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Is there a comprehensive source that lists all various orthodox wedding customs (mitzvah tantz, mezinkah, etc.)?

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    "[A] comprehensive source that lists all various orthodox wedding customs" may not exist, but Made in Heaven: A Jewish Wedding Guide by R' Aryeh Kaplan is probably a good starting point.
    – Seth J
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 15:58
  • White wine at the chuppah.
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 16:38
  • Are you looking for customs at all Orthodox weddings or all customs for Orthodox weddings in different communities?
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 16:39
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    BTW "mezinkah" is not a Jewish wedding custom.
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 20:36
  • @DoubleAA I'm pretty sure it has become one. At least for a substantial number.
    – SAH
    Commented Mar 22, 2017 at 18:41

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Nitei Gavriel Hilchos Nesuin 1 & Nitei Gavriel Hilchos Nesuin 2

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    +1, a great source, though I doubt it's what the asker sought (emphasis supplied): "a comprehensive source that lists all various orthodox wedding customs". That probably doesn't exist.
    – msh210 ♦
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 15:43
  • @msh210 I was actually hoping for a website or some other digital format which many people could add to. Something like that could conceivably list them all, no?
    – user1668
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 17:14
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    @PM: Conceivably? Yes. Likely? Not IMO. Customs could vary from town to town within a single area of the Ukraine (for example).
    – msh210 ♦
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 17:16
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HaNissuim KHilkhatam is a good source of varied minhagim.

I would also look at Rav Daniel Sperber's Minhagei Yisrael which is an 8 volume set documenting thousands and thousands of minhagim from around the Jewish world.

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