About this vendor
Jewish and Interfaith Weddings is a professional wedding officiant company based out of Connecticut. Rabbi/Cantor Ron Broden is the owner of this passionate business, and he’s happy to marry couples all over the New York metro area. Since no two couples are alike, he believes that no two weddings should be either. Jewish and Interfaith Weddings will help you construct a ceremony that reflects your beliefs as a couple, as well as the union that you share.
Experience
Ron Broden has been an ordained cantor from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion since 1990. He went back to school to further his education at the Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk Rabbinic Academy where he received rabbinic ordination. He has performed hundreds of weddings throughout the years, and specializes in Jewish, interfaith and same-sex weddings.
Services Offered
This passionate wedding officiant will share suggestions and ideas to make your wedding just right for you. His goal is for your special day to be stress-free, and go exactly as planned. For interfaith ceremonies, he’s happy to collaborate with a member of the clergy from another faith, and has recommendations if you don't have someone in mind. In addition to speaking English, Ron has also performed ceremonies in Spanish, Italian and Hebrew. His services include:
Civil union
Non-religious
Single religion
Vow renewal
Customized vows
Licensed
Chuppah
Ketubah
Details
Ceremony Types
- Commitment Ceremony
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
- Second Wedding
- Vow Renewal Ceremony
Planning
- Se Habla Español
Religious Affiliations
- Interfaith
- Jewish
- Reform
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Rabbi Ron married my husband and I on March 30, 2025 and he was such a joy! Not only was the ceremony he wrote so heartfelt, personal, and emotional but he really took his time to get to know us, via a zoom meeting and numerous emails. As an interfaith couple, myself not being Jewish, he was so helpful answering all or my questions and making sure our ceremony was exactly what we wanted. I could not recommend him enough!!
Rabbi Broden was a pleasure to work with throughout the planning of our interfaith wedding (Jewish and Catholic). We appreciated how receptive Rabbi Broden was to our ceremony drafts and how well he worked alongside our priest, Father Borda. On the day of the wedding, Rabbi Broden was on time and in good spirits. We received many compliments on the ceremony and officiants. Highly recommended.
Rabbi Ron was great! We had an interfaith ceremony and he was so helpful walking my partner and I through the different pieces. He was a quick communicator and worked with us on editing the ceremony script to make it the perfect ceremony for us. Everyone kept telling us how wonderful the ceremony was - personal, heartfelt, had the right amount of tradition/religion.
Rabbi Ron made our interfaith ceremony so special! We enjoyed meeting with him via Zoom and he was very quick to answer any questions we had throughout the process. We appreciated personal touches he made during our ceremony and every time we looked at him during the ceremony, he had a huge smile on his face which made us feel so special. Several guests also commented on how lovely the remarks were as well.
My husband and I hired Rabbi Broden to officiate our wedding on 7/16 and he was fantastic. He was very easy to work with and we enjoyed working with him to craft our perfect ceremony. He showed up right on time. Many of our guests questioned if we knew him for years after the ceremony was over. 5 stars all around.
Rabbi Broden was the rabbi for our ceremony. He did a great job and we found him easy to work with and talk to. The guests loved his thoughtful words.
Rabbi Ronald Broden officiated our wedding this past Sunday and planned a ceremony that was super meaningful and special for us. My husband is catholic with Jewish lineage and his family is from Spain and Rabbi Ron did the ceremony in English, Spanish and Hebrew. Rabbi Ron also provided great suggestions and customized parts of the ceremony specific to our needs. We would highly recommend Rabbi Ron!!!
We couldn't have done it without Rabbi Broden. He helped us orchestrate a beautiful ceremony for our interfaith wedding and it was perfect. We were so lucky to have him support us in our decision to have our wedding despite all that's happening around us. He was so pleasant to have and he kept our ceremony meaningful, concise, and light-hearted. Thank you Rabbi Broden for making our wedding as perfect as can be!
We loved having Rabbi Broden as our officiant for our wedding! He was able to perform our inter-faith Jewish wedding in a way that explained the Jewish traditions, and included everyone's beliefs and values. We felt it was the perfect mix of our two beliefs! He was also incredibly responsive, and tailored the wedding to what we wanted. It was a gorgeous ceremony!
Rabbi Broden was incredible! We had a bi-cultural interfaith wedding, so the ability to personalize the ceremony was important to us. We were able to create one with Rabbi Broden that was the length we wanted, meaningful to us and our families, and made our day absolutely perfect. We highly recommend Rabbi Broden!
Rabbi Ron made our day so special!
Rabbi Broden was a pleasure to work with and we would recommend him to anyone who is planning a wedding. He was always very supportive and quick to respond to any questions we had. Our ceremony was beautiful and tailored to us in such a nice way. We got so many compliments about how special and unique the ceremony was. He really helped make our dream wedding a reality!😊
Ronald Broden was an extraordinary rabbi at our wedding..he not only did a perfect job as rabbi, but also sang beautifully....
We got numerous compliments on how wonderful our ceremony was and in big part due to rabbi Ronald Broden...everything went smoothly, gracefully and with perfect timing....I highly recommend rabbi Ronald Broden.
Highly recommend! Rabbi Ronald Broden performed our interfaith wedding ceremony. He made our ceremony extra special, and took the time to answer our questions and give feedback. He was so understanding of what we wanted, and all of our guests loved it! He's the best!
Rabbi Broden is absolutely TERRIFIC. From the preplanning stages to the actual event, he instantly made me and my (now) husband feel like family. Not only did he listen and implement all of our ideas and suggestions, he performed an incredible ceremony that our guests all commented was truly something special. He is a pleasure to work with and talented in every aspect. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
Rabbi Broden was our officiant for our wedding this September. We are an interfaith couple and we had a Jewish ceremony. From our first meeting via Skype, Rabbi Broden was very personable and helpful. We spent a majority of this meeting talking about who we were individually and as a couple. We could tell that he was actually interested in us as people and he wanted to get to know us better. We liked his flexibility and his friendliness - we were very comfortable speaking with him. Over the next few months, Rabbi Broden was always very prompt in answering emails whenever we had a question or concern. On the wedding day, he delivered a wonderful and moving ceremony. Rabbi Broden is also an excellent cantor. We were very happy that we chose him for our wedding!
My fiancé (now husband) and I were thrilled to find Rabbi/Cantor Broden after several failed attempts at finding a Rabbi in our area to perform an interfaith wedding ceremony. We had a very specific idea of what we wanted—someone who could lead a primarily Jewish wedding with Catholic/nonreligious elements interwoven in a way that would be accessible to our Jewish and non-Jewish friends and family. Ron not only listened to and delivered on everything we wanted, but WOW-ed us with his singing! He has a fantastic voice and it added an extra level of uniqueness to our ceremony, which made it that much more memorable. We would highly recommend Ron to other interfaith couples looking to make their day extra special!
My husband and I felt so lucky to have found Rabbi Ron for our July wedding. Rabbi Ron made our ceremony light yet touching as his words incorporated meaningful Jewish culture with today's modern traditions. He allowed us to choose the text that we would prefer, and sent us a copy of what would be said on our special day. Our guests raved about the wonderful ceremony we had thanks to Rabbi Ron!
Rabbi Broden was great! He always responded to our emails in a timely manner and answered all of our questions. He was flexible with what we wanted in the ceremony. Everyone afterwards mentioned how great the ceremony was.
My husband and I were married on November 3, 2017 in Westport, CT and were so excited to have Rabbi Ron Broden as our officiant! Planning our wedding from Maryland was difficult, but Ron skyped with us to get to know us better, e-mailed with us to make sure we felt comfortable with the ceremony, and adapted everything they way we wanted to create an amazing ceremony combining our Jewish and Catholic backgrounds. Thank you so much for a wedding we and our guests will never forget!
From the first time we met Rabbi Braden, incidentally at my niece and nephew's Bnamitzvah, we knew he was the one who would marry my husband and I. Rabbi was so easy going and knowledgeable, made the process so easy! All my guests raved about Rabbi Broden during and after the wedding. His words were beautiful and out ceremony went so smoothly. Can't thank Rabbi enough for being there on our special day! Looking forward to having him instruct my son for his Barmitzvah when he turns 13. Thanks again Rabbi!
Rabbi Broden was great. He was incredibly responsive to our emails and answered all of our questions. He was flexible with what we wanted in the ceremony. Everyone was saying that it was the most beautiful ceremony they had ever seen. He even performed part of the ceremony in Spanish. We had a difficult time finding a rabbi that would marry us since we were an interfaith couple and then we came across his name. He was amazing. He made our wedding so special.
Rabbi Ronald Broden did a fantastic job. He was charismatic, friendly, and enthusiastic. He blended our faiths in the ceremony beautifully, and as an added bonus speaks Spanish !!!! He was responsive to emails and answered all questions. We would recommend him without hesitation!!!
Pedro and I are so pleased with the way everything turned out, including the ketubah we got from Rabbi Broden. The ceremony was beautiful and perfect, exactly what we wanted. We've had many positive remarks about Rabbi Broden and his service, it was awesome! He made our special day even more special. We are beyond pleased with our choice.
Sincerely
Lauren and Pedro
Ron let us choose what we wanted to include in the ceremony and there were no questions as to why we didn't want to include something which made us both very comfortable. He even worked with us to do a Saturday morning wedding which was great. The ceremony was only about 20 minutes which was perfect.
Rabbi Broden was a savior! We had 4 Rabbi's cancel/back out on us, and Rabbi Broden saved the day! He was actually the first Rabbi we called, but had a previous commitment. Luckily after 4 cancellations, I called him again for a recommendation and his schedule cleared! He showed up early to our ceremony, luckily as I forgot our Ketubah (bridezilla should not be responsible for these things haha). He was very courteous, went over his ceremony with us, and was great to work with! We had skype meetings - as we live in Virginia and he is in NY - but immediately felt like we were talking to an old friend! :)
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