A Perfect Guide For Planning Bar Bat B Nai Mitzvah

36 Tips + 4 Bonuses for the Mitzvah day, one of the most important days in your child's life. A day filled with love, emotions, feelings, sensitivity, family and friends.A gathering to celebrate the big event often follows the ceremony. This party can require extensive preparation on the part of the parents and other family members involved in the planning.This guide provides assistance in creating a celebration sure to impress the guests, while not breaking the bank. From staying organized and hiring vendors, to involving your child or grandchild in the planning process to make the celebration one which reflects their personality and style.

Whether it's finding the right synagogue and selecting a mitzvah project or choosing party favors, this original new guide to planning a bar or bat mitzvah is filled with inspiring ideas.

How to manage the process with grace, joy and good sense. A practical guide that gives parents and teens the "how-to" information they need to navigate the bar/bat mitzvah process and grow as a family through this experience. For the first time in one book, everyone directly involved offers practical insights into how the process can be made easier and more enjoyable for all. Rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements, parents, and even teens speak from their own experience. - What's it all about? - Preparation for Parent and Child - Tutoring, stress, expectations, enjoyment, planning for children with special needs - Negotiating the ceremony and celebration - Designing a creative service, heightening the spiritual exercise, special issues related to divorced and interfaith families, planning a party that neither breaks the bank nor detracts from the inherent spirituality of the event.

Don't Do it yourself¿ DIYWH...DO IT YOURSELF... WITH OUR HELPUnsure of where to begin in planning your B'nai Mitzvah? Since 1994 Cara Weiss and her company SAVE The DATE, LLC has planned over 1,000 B'nai Mitzvahs and Weddings by successfully guiding and teaching clients how to plan their event. Using a unique approach by incorporating the client in all aspects of the planning stages, we interview each client to make sure we are a good fit. Then during the planning stages we not only focus on the typical factors such as budget, location, and time of year but most importantly (and what separates us from other planners) we incorporate you and your personality all throughout the process. Our clients come to us seeking organizing help and creative thoughts to plan out their simcha. Planning in a fun yet logical way is what we are all about while helping you and your child enjoy becoming a B'nai Mitzvah.Now you can learn what we learned from over 2 decades of experience all in one purchase. Our self contained zipper bound event planning guide book will help you stay organized and keep the creative thoughts flowing as you plan your next simcha. For over 20 years we have created forms, lists, guides and valuable information that we are now making available to you in an easy to use event planning guide book. Our forms will ease the planning process. You will have access to invaluable information such as actual client budget samples, information on religious aspects and how to incorporate them into your simcha, important checklists, and so much more. Our information will make you educate you on what you don't know so you can be your own planner. Before you go to your vendor meetings; read about the discussion topics and negotiation secrets. You will go in to your meetings educated and you will come out better for it. We teach it all to you in a step by step process so you could practically do it yourself.

A practical resource for students and parents, focusing on both the service and the reception. Describes typical services for boys and girls, the meaning behind these rituals, and the various alternatives to the traditional synagogue service. Offers suggestions to make the entire experience more personal and more meaningful. Offers suggestions for: long-term preparation and short-term goals; elevating the spiritual meaning of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah; the "nuts and bolts" of planning the celebration; adult Bar/Bat Mitzvahs; and Jewish life after the ceremony. Also a guide for planning the reception and party. Takes you step by step through the important details, including the ones that are easily forgotten, from setting the budget to choosing the caterer and deciding on the theme.

An indispensable, modern-day guide to planning the perfect bar or bat mitzvah, celebrating substance and style There used to be only two approaches to the bar or bat mitzvah party -- a low-key event that reflects the solemnity of this sacred rite of passage or a big bash that has no connection to the religious service. For many, it was an impossible dilemma. Will a big bash trivialize and overshadow the bar or bat mitzvah experience? Will too much spirituality suck the life out of an otherwise fabulous party? MitzvahChic is the first book that proves that if you want a truly amazing experience, you can and must have it all! Blending meaningful Jewish elements with high-style contemporary party planning, this inspiring and useful guide will show you how to have the ultimate bar or bat mitzvah -- a profoundly moving service followed by an unforgettable party. The MitzvahChic approach also shows how to honor your child in a big way, rather than reducing him or her to an overused pop culture theme or a single cliché: He's into baseball! She loves horses! This must-have guide gives advice on the major decisions, the basics of the service, and the party details that really matter. It also features: A complete guide to the Torah, including dates and summaries of the portions and supplementary materials Eight complete, themed parties, including party favors, decorations, and photographs of sample tables A time line to help plan the bar or bat mitzvah up to two years ahead Instructions for being MitzvahChic on a budget Advice on how to include non-Jewish friends and family members in the ceremony A practical guide to all things mitzvah from the Torah to the tablecloth, MitzvahChic will help create a beautiful, powerful, resonant, and unforgettable rite of passage.

Why not make planning your child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah one of the happiest times in your life? Now thanks to this indispensable, all-inclusive guide, you can: - Obtain complete information on how to plan the perfect Bar or Bat Mitzvah - Save thousands of dollars and free yourself from worrisome details - Be guided every step of the way, from the temple service to the reception to the seating arrangements - Freel well organized and assured that no detail is overlooked, by using the handy countdown and checklists - Receive tips, suggestions, and advice based on numerous personal experiences - Use ann easy-to-follow method for recording invitations sent, responses received, gifts and thank-you notes - Keep track of addresses, telephone numbers, appointments, costs, and decisions that need to be made - Discover helpful hints for choosing your photographer, videographer, musicians, florists, decorator, entertainment, favors, invitations, and clothing - Compare prices easily as you visit catererers, musicians, photographers, videographers, florists, printers, etc. - Give this as a perfect gift to special friencs or relatives to help them plan an eventful day - Relex and enjoy your day with everything going exactly the way you planned

Self help guidebook with hints and secrets to planning a Bar or Bat Mitzvah.