Welcome

We got married on August 13! We are humbled and overjoyed to have friends and family of all ages come together for another community celebration of our love.

Please join us for our East Coast Reception, featuring:

Drinks, Appetizers & Games Sharing Wedding Highlights Dinner & Toasts Dessert & Dancing the Night Away…

Saturday, January 13, 2024
5:00–10:00 pm

Temple Emanuel
10101 Connecticut Avenue
Kensington, MD 20895

Adults and children welcome. (Unfortunately, no pets, except service animals.)

RSVP

Let us know whether you can join our celebration!

Attire

Please wear something in the range of casual to semi-formal. The reception will be indoors. The spirit is comfort, play, and celebration.

Ritual Items

Water

We invite you to bring a small vessel of water from your home area or a place you have traveled. This could be from a natural source (river, lake, ocean, etc.) or from the tap.

As Ben & Kimberley have done throughout their relationship, we will combine all our waters in a ritual on Saturday evening. We honor water as it gives us life, sustains us, has enabled us to reach this milestone, and connects us all together. At the end of the event, we will release these waters onto the Earth as a way of sharing our love with the world.

Altar Item

When you arrive, we will invite you to help build a communal altar. We encourage you to bring a meaningful and/or beautiful object from home or that you collect on the land. You’ll take your item home when you leave or may offer natural items to the Earth.

Photos

Please upload any photos you take during the event to this shared album.

Friday

Also, we invite you to join us for Temple Emanuel’s Shabbat service on Friday, January 12, at 7:30 pm, featuring a special guest speaker: Reverend Dr. Heber M. Brown, III.

Rev. Brown has been a catalyst for personal transformation and social change for more than twenty years. A dynamic orator, Rev. Brown will speak about the Black Church Food Security Network, which he founded. This project advances food security and food sovereignty by co-creating Black food ecosystems anchored by Black congregations in partnership with Black farmers and others.

Registry

Your presence is our greatest present.

If you would like to contribute something toward our honeymoon next year, an experience, a gift of time, or a physical object for us to think of you every time we use it, here is our registry.

COVID Policy

Please take a COVID test within 24 hours before arriving at the event. We’ll have a few tests available onsite if needed.

Please do not come if you have a positive result, aren't feeling well, or have COVID symptoms.

If you recently had COVID, we are following CDC Guidelines:

1. Day 0 is when you started having symptoms, or if you didn't have symptoms then when you tested positive.
2. If the event is within your isolation period (at least 5 days, depending on symptoms), please do not attend.
3. If the event is within Days 6–10, you may attend with a negative test. Please mask through Day 10 or according to CDC Guidelines.
4. If the event is after Day 10, you may attend if your symptoms are improving.