My Puerto Rico adventure

Another Destination Wedding has come and gone, and this one went WAY too fast!
I know I say this all of the time, but I am just so fortunate in that every one of my wedding couples is amazing – but truly, Eden and Eduardo were such an amazing couple in so many ways.  It was [...]

Puerto Rico, Here I come!

I am just catching up on life, since last weekend’s wedding, and it’s time to head out again tomorrow.
This weekend I am performing a wedding for Eden & Eduardo, an Interfaith couple in Puerto Rico.  I actually know very few details about the location I’m going to – so it’s kind of a mystery adventure [...]

Me, nervous?

Heck no.  Why should I be nervous?
Because tomorrow I am officiating the biggest wedding in my career?  For a family known throughout the world for RATING people?  Well, yeah, ok…I’m nervous.  I didn’t say I wasn’t confident, but when you know that people who write about what people do for a living are judging you, [...]

Jersey begins….

I’m so excited.  This is a divine weekend, for sure, and I have been so looking forward to its arrival.  There is such an amazing story about how I got here, which I will tell later, but, for now, the beauty of the fact that I am here is enough.
So, tonight begins Max’s Bar Mitzvah [...]

Congratulations, Scott & Mara! It’s been REAL!

Today I performed a wedding for Scott & Mara, one of the most lovely, down to earth, authentic couples I have met in a long time.
Just pronounced Husband and Wife!
From the moment I met them, I was touched by their simple honesty and affection for each other.  In a very short time, I felt like [...]

Off I go again!

I’m up bright and early to finish off this Thanksgiving weekend with quite a bit of activity.
I’m getting ready to leave for Orlando, where I will be co-officiating the wedding of Megan and Michael tonight at the Winter Park Civic Center.  The wedding is a Catholic-Jewish wedding, and I am co-officiating with Father Tim.  The [...]

My first published Ezine article!

Great News! My article on planning an Interfaith wedding was published today on Ezine!
http://ezinearticles.com/?id=1363768

You might be thinking that planning your Jewish/Interfaith wedding will be all about the conflict – but you can create a ceremony that everyone will love. By focusing on the relationship, and choosing traditions and readings to honor both sides, your [...]

Planning your Interfaith Wedding ceremony

I just stumbled on a great site – www.shebrew.com, and there I found an article by Leslie Hershman, a Reform Jewish bride, marrying a non practicing Catholic.
It was so great to read her post, because this is exactly what I do in my practice when planning an Interfaith wedding. I’m much more concerned about [...]

About Cantor Debbi Ballard

I have a rich and varied background that brings me to where I am today. As a child growing up in a Conservative Jewish community, I was mesmerized and transformed by the musical experience of singing in synagogue with my family. Our Jewish holiday celebrations and lifecycle events became the most special [...]

Keeping it in the family…

As if helping people, working with them at their happiest times in life, and traveling all over the world isn’t good enough – there’s yet one more reason why I absolutely LOVE what I do. That reason is my friend Liz’s family, for whose family I have truly become “Their Personal Cantor”. Let me tell [...]

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