The wedding chuppah is a special canopy that wedding couples stand under in a Jewish wedding ceremony. It symbolizes their future privacy of their new home.
Chuppah (wedding canopy) Kethubah (marriage contract) Seven blessings "Behold you are betrothed to me..."
it's a wedding ceremony. The chuppah itself is what the bride and groom stand under, but most people call the ceremony itself a chuppah
The wedding canopy, or chuppah, represents the home of the new bride and groom. Having the sides open symbolizes an open invitation to guests into their home, as Abraham and Sarah did with their tents.
A Chuppah is basically a canopy for a Jewish couple to be married under. It usually would have a cloth, sheet, or a tallit streched on four poles or sometimes just held up by people. A Jewish couple would conduct their ceremony under this canopy which sympolizes the home they will build together.
A chuppa is the canopy under which a Jewish wedding ceremony takes place. For a nice explanation, see the Answers.com topic on chuppa at http://www.answers.com/topic/chuppah .
The chuppah canopy. It also represents the presence of God above.
Any canopy will do, but the easiest way to do this is to get 4 wooden poles and put hooks on the tops. Then put a tallit corner on each hook. You can even decorate the poles with flowers or strings of lights or even cloth.
The Rabbi reads the Ketubah (wedding vows) as the bride and groom stand under the wedding canopy (Chuppah) in the presence of the guests. Then he says seven blessings over a cup of wine, and the groom places a ring on the bride's finger and ceremoniously declares that he is betrothing her.
The chuppah (wedding canopy) is not a yiddish word, but a Hebrew one. For 'serious' matters, yiddish is never directly used. Some yiddish 'slang'-ish imagery is used very, very indirectly for some obscure aspects of Jewish liturgy, but only in the most roundabout way. The chuppah is made, most simply, of a prayer shawl (tallit) suspended on the most simple, humble farming and household implements, creating an astonishingly powerful ceremony combining humility with profundity.
The Huppah is a Jewish wedding canopy that symbolizes the privacy of the couple's new home.
The Hebrew word "nisu'in" refers to the marriage ceremony or the act of getting married in Judaism. It is the second part of the Jewish wedding process, following the "kiddushin" or engagement period. Nisu'in involves the couple standing under a traditional wedding canopy called a "chuppah" and the recitation of marriage vows.