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A Reform Jewish Wedding
You have imagined the moment when you will stand beneath the chuppah - surrounded by the people you love and more excited than ever. You want this moment to make space for your love: to include your guests in an egalitarian ceremony and celebrate in your own language, whatever your gender, identity, culture, or family background. An open Jewish wedding can be modern and traditional, intimate and joyful, recognizable and completely personal.
Now it can truly be yours.
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Reform Jewish Wedding
That Feels Like You
A Jewish Wedding That Is Open and Egalitarian
To me, the preparation for your chuppah is every bit as important as the wedding day itself. Your ceremony does not begin and end beneath the chuppah. It grows through a personal and meaningful process in which we create an egalitarian Jewish wedding ceremony that expresses who you really are.
We explore your relationship story, the values that guide you, and your decision to build a shared life. Together, we clarify what an egalitarian Jewish wedding means to you and shape the ceremony in your language, according to your hopes and dreams.
Choosing an alternative Jewish wedding in Israel opens the possibility of a ceremony centered on your true identity as a couple - your love, humor, shared history, and deepest commitments. Your unique chemistry brings the ceremony to life. Guests do not merely watch; they experience a genuine moment of connection, joy, and inspiration. The process reaches its culmination as you stand beneath the chuppah, surrounded by family and friends, in a ceremony that tells your story.
Our Three-Meeting Preparation Process
First meeting - Your story: How did you meet? What drew you to one another? What built your relationship, and what continues to help it grow?
Second meeting - Your personal ketubah: We explore the values at the heart of your partnership and the life you want to create together. From this conversation, we write a personal, egalitarian ketubah in language that belongs to you.
Third meeting - Designing the chuppah ceremony: We carefully shape the words, rituals, music, blessings, family participation, and every detail that will make the ceremony your own.
Bilingual and Destination Jewish Weddings
I officiate Hebrew-English Jewish weddings for international couples and multicultural families in Israel, Greece, and other European destinations. Every part of the ceremony can be explained and translated so that guests from abroad - Jewish or not - can understand, participate, and feel included.
LGBTQ+ Jewish Weddings
A Jewish chuppah belongs to every loving couple. I officiate weddings for two brides, two grooms, nonbinary partners, and couples of every gender. Together we can create mutual ring exchanges, inclusive Hebrew, egalitarian blessings, two-glass breaking, and a ketubah that reflects your relationship without forcing it into someone else’s language.
Second Weddings and Blended Families
For couples beginning a new chapter, the ceremony can honor the lives already lived and the family now being formed. Children and loved ones may offer blessings, participate beneath the chuppah, or help articulate the values of the new home.
About Rabbi Naomi
I have accompanied couples from many countries, cultures, identities, and Jewish backgrounds. Together we have created ceremonies that bridge tradition and freedom, spiritual depth and laughter, quiet intimacy and communal joy. No two chuppahs are alike. My role is to listen, ask, refine, and help you build a ceremony that is clear, heartfelt, and unforgettable.
Planning a Reform wedding in Israel or a destination Jewish wedding in Europe?
Let’s talk about the ceremony you want to create.
Words From Couples
It’s been a few days since the wedding, and we’re still floating on a cloud after the incredible experience of our chuppah. Friends and family keep telling us how personal, joyful, and moving the ceremony was. So many people said, “That wedding was just so you” and Rabbi Naomi Efrat played such a central role in making that happen.
From our very first meeting, we could feel how much you genuinely wanted to know us: each of us as individuals, and the story we share as a couple. The process we went through together helped us navigate all the surprises and last-minute chaos along the way, and create something that felt whole, authentic, and completely right.
Our decision to get married was deeply intuitive. Writing our ketubah and preparing for the ceremony helped us put into words the values, promises, and love at the heart of our relationship. The result was a personal ketubah and an egalitarian wedding ceremony that reflected who we are.
Thank you for your guidance, your deep listening, and the way you helped us create a personal, moving, and equal Huppa and wedding ceremony that we will never forget.
Dana and Michael
As a queer couple, it was incredibly important for us to find someone who would celebrate our love without compromise while creating a ceremony that felt Jewish and authentic. From our very first conversation with Naomi, we knew we had found exactly that. Naomi created a space where we felt completely seen, welcomed, and affirmed. She took the time to understand our story, our values, and the kind of ceremony we dreamed of, and she crafted something that felt profoundly personal and meaningful.
The ceremony itself was joyful, emotional, and beautifully balanced Jewish tradition while embracing who we are. Our family and friends couldn't stop talking about how genuine and moving it was.
If you're looking for an officiant who combines warmth, wisdom, inclusivity, and a deep love of Jewish tradition, we couldn't recommend Naomi more highly.
Lisa and Rachel
Rabbi Naomi, our love, you’re forever in our hearts ❤️
You should know that you were one of the greatest gifts we received through this wedding.
Being married feels a little like before and a little different. Somehow, we feel even closer. The ceremony and the egalitarian chuppah brought us together on an even deeper level.
Both the process and the ceremony itself created a profound moment of connection, meaning, and love.
It was emotional, personal, and powerful: exactly the chuppah we had dreamed of. A beautiful, heartfelt, egalitarian wedding ceremony that reflected our relationship and our story.
Zoya and Inbar
We want to thank you again, from the bottom of our hearts ❤️
We loved the journey we went on with you to create a ceremony that felt precise, authentic, and completely true to us. Our wedding was perfect, and Rabbi Naomi Efrat was a central part of making it so. So many guests told us the ceremony was outstanding, and, most importantly, that it felt unmistakably ours.
The ketubah signing became one of the most moving and unexpected moments of the wedding. At first, we assumed it would simply be a formality, as it often is at other weddings. But because of the way you guided us through the process, it became a personal, meaningful, and deeply emotional part of the ceremony.
You transformed the ketubah signing into a powerful moment that expressed the love and values at the heart of our relationship, not just a technical step before the chuppah.
We are so happy we chose Rabbi Naomi to guide us and officiate our personal, egalitarian wedding ceremony. Thank you for being such an important part of our day.
Doron and Uri
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