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I just came back from hosting a post-wedding “sheva berachot” meal for Kim and David who got married on Sunday. This is two weeks after the wedding of other good friends, Mike and Lior. This coming weekend, I have Josef and Abigail, and Ryan and Alla will finish off the month. Being Jewish weddings, they take up a whole lot more time than just the weddings themselves: there’s a day or two before, and a week after, that have related celebrations. So it’s really been taking up a lot of my time lately. My weeks have been almost saturated in work and weddings.

Not to mention my brother busy with his own wedding to Shimrit, which is happening in February in Israel. He seems to be on top of things, though.

And just when I thought I’d had enough weddings for one season, I found a voicemail on my phone. My hosts from the High Holidays in Surfers Paradise (Shai and Sandra) will be having a wedding too, at almost-last-minute notice. At the time I stayed with them, Sandra was completing her conversion to Judaism. So now with that all done, there is a Jewish wedding to be had (apart from the civil one they were already bound by!), and it happens to fall on the one weekend in December that wasn’t already taken by someone else’s nuptials.

It’s tiring. But I love it. What can I say? Mazal Tov to you all!