A wedding in Jerusalem, held the way you'd want your children's to be held.

Our role versus the wedding planner's.

We are not the wedding planner. You'll have (or need) a dedicated Jerusalem simcha planner who handles the chuppah venue, catering, florist, photographer, music, badeken logistics, and sheva brachos meals. Our role is the travel piece — the hotel block for out-of-town guests, the Shabbos sheva brachos logistics at a hotel if that's the plan, the kallah's pre-wedding stay, the mechutanim's accommodations, and all the multi-family room-matching a wedding trip requires.

We work alongside your wedding planner. Typically the two of us talk weekly in the 8-12 weeks before the wedding. The division stays clear: she handles the simcha itself; we handle every non-simcha hour of your guests' trips.

The twelve-month countdown.

• Month 12: First conversation. Target wedding date, family sizes both sides, budget frame, whether Shabbos sheva brachos is at a hotel or in a home.
• Month 10: Hotel block held. Typically 20-50 rooms across 3-7 nights, depending on guest travel patterns.
• Month 9: Guest list preliminary. We start mapping people to rooms — not as a spreadsheet but as a placement problem.
• Month 6: Guest-side communication goes out (your wording, our booking link). Cut-off for block rate announced.
• Month 3: All rooms confirmed. Kallah's pre-wedding stay arrangement finalized. Mechutan accommodations locked.
• Month 1: Final arrivals coordinated, airport transfers arranged, hotel welcome brief drafted per family.
• Wedding week: Hotel concierge desk run by us, on-site or remote, as the wedding planner handles the simcha.

The Shabbos sheva brachos question.

Many Jerusalem weddings include a Shabbos sheva brachos at a hotel, anchoring 40-150 guests for Friday-night seudah, Shabbos morning davening and kiddush, Shabbos lunch seudah, se'udah shlishit, and havdallah. The hotel hosts become the functional shul for the weekend.

Planning this is involved. It includes: Friday-night seudah setup with a rav to lead, Shabbos morning minyan in the hotel (or a walk to a shul that can absorb the group), kallah's covered-up status for the Shabbos meals, sheva brachos around the meals themselves (who is honored with which brachah), children's programming through all seudos, and mechutan-mechutenes-sided conversations that need to happen without crossing wires.

We've done this at all four of our hotels. Prima Palace and Jerusalem Gate have larger function-room capacity; Yirmiyahu 33 and Haneviim Boutique work for smaller intimate sheva brachos Shabbatot.

The kallah's pre-wedding.

The kallah's final week before the chuppah is a specific category. A kallah typically arrives in Jerusalem 3-5 days before the chuppah. She needs: a quiet room away from the hustle, a walkable mikveh with a balanit she trusts, a schedule that respects her preparations (shmiras halashon, davening, time with the chassan's family without the chassan), and a hotel staff who doesn't misread her as a regular guest.

We coordinate with the kallah's mother or shadchan directly on the pre-wedding schedule. Every detail is held — which is exactly the privacy a kallah should have in that week.

The four family archetypes we see.

The out-of-town US wedding.

Chassan or kallah from America flying Israeli family in — or the reverse. 30-80 travelers across both sides. 5-7 night hotel stays common. Sheva brachos schedule spans both continents.

The destination wedding.

Both sides from chutz-la'aretz choosing to marry in Jerusalem for spiritual reasons. 100-200 travelers. Multiple hotels sometimes involved. Weeklong programming: chuppah, Kotel photos, Shabbos sheva brachos, day trips for guests between.

The Israel-based wedding with one mechutan side from abroad.

The "single block" case — just one mechutan family needs a hotel block. Smaller scale (20-40 rooms) but same halachic-logistical care required.

The older-couple wedding.

Widowed or divorced couple marrying. Adult-children considerations, blended-family diplomacy, often smaller and more intimate. Our role here is holding everything held — which is exactly what these couples most need.

Hotels that host weddings well.

The right hotel depends on size, kashrus standard, and whether Shabbos sheva brachos is at the hotel. Prima Palace and Jerusalem Gate have the function-room capacity for larger blocks; Yirmiyahu 33 works well for strictly-chareidi smaller weddings; Haneviim Boutique is the choice when the family wants a boutique-scale simcha.