Rabbi Jennifer Rudin, Simcha Services

Rabbi Rudin was so wonderful to work with and was essential in making our wedding ceremony so special and meaningful! Rabbi Rudin was warm, welcoming, and made sure both of our traditions and priorities were incorporated into the service. We loved the seven blessings and felt it represented us so well as a couple and family. We feel very fortunate to have met Rabbi Rudin and look forward to staying in touch.

Rabbi Rudin is an exceptional officiant, leader, and overall human. Compared to other wedding vendor decisions, the expectations of others weighed particularly heavily on our search for a Rabbi. After our initial call with Rabbi Rudin, that all went out the window because we knew she was perfect for us. Her non-judgmental, modern approach to Judaism was an amazing (and very much needed) breath of fresh air. She took the time to get to know my husband and I, allowing for her to build an incredibly personal and meaningful ceremony for us that our guests are still raving about. An added bonus of working with Rabbi Rudin is that she has a growing community that encourages members to experience Judaism in a way that's authentic to the individual. Your relationship with Rabbi Rudin does not have to end at the wedding! I know ours won't. :) Don't hesitate to connect with Rabbi Rudin, she's a true gem.

Rabbi Rudin was amazing! She was thoughtful, warm, and respectful of our beliefs and traditions even when our vision for the ceremony had some non-traditional components. My husband is Jewish and I am not, and Rabbi Rudin helped us blend our backgrounds in a beautiful way. She made our ceremony so personal and meaningful-- it truly felt like the best representation of us as a couple. She also helped us involve our families and friends in a meaningful way, and our guests could not stop raving about how our ceremony was so beautiful and special. Rabbi Rudin listened to our ideas and helped bring them to life in a way that exceeded our expectations, and we are so happy we chose her to officiate our ceremony.

Rabbi Rudin was one of the best decision we made on our wedding day! She provides multiple meetings before hand to truly get to know you and to make sure your ceremony is exactly what you want it to be. Throughout the ceremony she explained exactly what was happening for everyone in the crowd that may not have known, which I loved! My husband and I were both incredibly nervous and her calming/grounding energy helped both of us each step of the way. During our reception we received dozens of compliments on how much everyone enjoyed our ceremony and Rabbi Rudin. She will make your wedding day incredibly special!

My wife and I got married this past May on fairly short notice. We reached out to Rabbi Rudin because her profile mentioned interfaith and non-denominational weddings. My wife is non-religious, and I am Jewish but non-practicing, so we were seeking a Rabbi who would be willing to tailor a service to both of our needs. We were looking for a very small back yard ceremony but didn't really know where to start. At our first meeting with Rabbi Rudin, she came with a lot of questions about each of us, our relationship, and our desires for the wedding itself. She helped us establish what we would be comfortable with or not, and proposed things like readings, the signing of a ketubah, and other symbols we could incorporate to make a subtle but still a decidedly Jewish wedding. We were clearly in good hands! The wedding day itself was lovely. She arrived early to help walk us through the ceremony and calm us down. While we had not heard the readings ahead of time, they fit the themes we had discussed with her and we felt they suited us perfectly. The ceremony was everything we had planned with her - no more, and no less. Absolutely perfect!

Rabbi Rudin was beyond incredible. She is kind and helps guide you through the ceremony process with ease. She makes a stressful time a little bit less stressful and really takes the time to get to know you as a couple.

Rabbi Rudin will remain an influential force in our marriage for years to come. Prior to our wedding, we spent hours talking about life, marriage, and what it means to be successful in both. Rabbi not only held the space under the huppah so beautifully; she also crafted the most thoughtful blessings we could imagine.

Jen made our day so incredibly special! She helped walk us through every step and went above and beyond. Jen made the whole process easy, fun and memorable! I highly recommend her services. Thank you, Jen!!

Rabbi Rudin was an absolute pleasure to work with! She made our special day even more special. The numerous zoom calls, phone calls, and meetings before our wedding day made the ceremony an incredible experience. She really went out of her way to get to know my wife and I. There were a handful of people who came up to my wife and I after the ceremony and said that was the most beautiful wedding ceremony they have been do and asked who the Rabbi was. I will recommend Rabbi Rudin to anyone!!

We LOVED working with Rabbi Rudin. She is kind, a good listener, and worked with us numerous times to create a beautiful ceremony that was exactly what we wanted

If we could give Rabbi Rudin 10 stars out of 5, we would! After only meeting with us three times we felt that the ceremony was personalized as if she had known us for years. A majority of our guests had never been to a Jewish wedding, but we heard from a more than a few of our guests that they really enjoyed her explanations of the specifically Jewish portions of our ceremony. From start to finish she was amazing, and we cannot recommend her enough.

We could not have asked for a better officiant than Rabbi Rudin! We had three meetings leading up to our wedding with her and during each she was joyful, kind, and thoughtful. She worked with us to adapt traditions to fit our values and create a custom ceremony and on the day of, she was early, prepared, and her usual relaxed, joyful self. She worked seamlessly with the venue coordinator and other vendors. We wouldn't have changed one thing about the ceremony. Rabbi Rudin made it so special - it was the best part of the whole. day.

Rabbi Rudin made our wedding ceremony magical. From our first conversation with her we just felt so comfortable and at ease. We knew right away we made the perfect choice. We had a few zoom call and helped us bring our vision to life. Planning a wedding can be stressful and she helped remind us it’s about us and that’s how it went. If we could do it again I couldn’t imagine anyone else marrying us. She is great and her team is wonderful too!!

If you’re looking for a compassionate, warm, and personable rabbi to help guide your journey to the chuppah— Rabbi Jennifer Rudin is all this and more. She took the time to truly understand us as a unique couple, and worked with us to create and lead the most perfect wedding ceremony for us. We couldn’t have asked for more

Rabbi Rudin was the best! We loved getting to know her throughout the process and she was so comforting and helpful on our actual wedding day. We still have guests telling us it was the most beautiful ceremony they've witnessed.

We had such a wonderful experience working with Rabbi Rudin to craft our intimate wedding ceremony. Her approach to personalization and authenticity really resonated with us, especially as it allowed us to incorporate elements of my Jewish faith with my husband's own family traditions. Meeting with the Rabbi in the months and weeks leading up to the wedding was lovely - she is so approachable and has such a calming demeanor which was greatly appreciated given the stresses of wedding planning! We loved getting the chance to be involved in the process and feel a real connection to the ceremony elements. It really felt like our ceremony was uniquely crafted to us, which is so special to look back on. We can't thank the Rabbi (and Bonnie!) enough!

Rabbi Rudin is amazing! She officiated our May 2022 wedding. She met with us several times before to understand what we envisioned for our wedding and helped us customize our ceremony to incorporate our cultures and families. She had great suggestions that we would never have thought of. We loved working with her for our wedding and the day of she was a calming presence. Multiple people have reached out to me to say what a great job she did at our ceremony. I'm so glad we found Rabbi Rudin!

Jennifer was amazing at our wedding this past October! She took the time to get to know both my husband and I as couple and individually, and what we envisioned for our wedding ceremony. She was extremely organized during the planning process, the rehersal and of course the day of. She made my husband and I, as well as our mothers who did our readings during our ceremony feel so comfortable and relaxed. We highly, highly recommend Jennifer to be your wedding officiant!

She did such a great job! Helped us personalize our wedding in a unique way. I highly recommend her.

Rabbi Rudin did a wonderful job! She guided us through the ceremony seamlessly, providing recommendations, advice and support perfectly. Our thoughts and feelings were always at the forefront of every discussion and it was clear that making our wedding uniquely about us was her goal. In addition, she was incredibly warm, compassionate and accessible to us as well as our extended family. I highly recommended Rabbi Rudin- we were blessed to have her by our side!

Rabbi Rudin is absolutely wonderful! My husband and I got married this past summer after such a crazy year planning a wedding amid a pandemic. Like so many others, what's already crazy about normal wedding planning was amplified by Covid but once we brought Rabbi Rudin into the picture, we were put at complete and total ease. She is the most warm, loving, funny and relaxed rabbi who wants nothing more than to make your special day everything you dreamed of and more. We had many sessions over Zoom with Rabbi Rudin leading up to our big day and her goal with that was to make us feel like we were standing under the chuppah with our dear friend and not just our rabbi. She became family and we can't thank her enough for guiding us through this process and being such an important part of our wedding day. We love Rabbi Rudin! She's the best!

Being married by Rabbi Rudin was like being married by a close family member. She took the time to really get to know us as a couple which negated any stress about something going awry on the big day. She was kind enough to check on us before the ceremony to see if we needed anything as well. Such a spectacular and fun person and I would suggest her to anyone.

As I started planning my wedding, I knew I wanted to have a Jewish based ceremony but be able to choose which traditions made sense in our interfaith marriage. I am SO glad that Rabbi Rudin was recommended to me - she was thoughtful and supportive to work with, easy to connect over zoom, and worked closely with us to make a ceremony that made sense for our families. Everyone came to tell us how much they loved not only the ceremony, but getting to meet her at the reception as well! Highly recommend :)

Rabbi Rudin was simply amazing. From our Zoom meetings, to finally meeting at our wedding day, she made everything feel seamless, calm, and all about us. Our ceremony with her, certainly felt like a dream come true. I highly recommend Rabbi Rudin!

Rabbi Rudin helped us craft a perfect ceremony as an interfaith couple for our wedding day! During our meetings, she was attentive and offered helpful suggestions that we were able to discuss with her to help find what fit best for what we were looking for in our ceremony. From the people that were included to the various readings we chose, Rabbi Rudin helped talk through why we were choosing different pieces to understand us more and used that knowledge during our ceremony when speaking to our relationship. She helped us to feel comfortable and relaxed during the ceremony and was also able to capture our relationship in words so well.  We knew choosing an officiant would be very important to us and we're so glad we chose Rabbi Rudin. Everything came out exactly as we had hoped and we loved every minute of it! Thank you thank you thank you!!

Rabbi Rudin might be the kindest person I've ever met. Throughout our engagement, we met with her periodically to check in- two of these meetings were with her at her home, where she welcomed us in and made us feel like old friends. My husband Dan is Jewish and we wanted to have a Jewish ceremony, but I was not raised Jewish. She warmly officiated our wedding, and patiently educated my Irish Catholic mother on all the details related to the Ketubah signing and ceremony. Furthermore, during our engagement, my mother was battling leukemia. Rabbi Rudin visited with my parents and checked in about my mom often, always asking about her progress and including them in her prayers. She was always so responsive and supportive, and always made time for us, always making us feel like the most important people, even while juggling her own home and family life. We are so appreciative of everything, and will recommend her to everybody!

AMAZING is one of the many words I have to describe Rabbi Rudin. From meeting with her for the pre-wedding meetings to the rehearsal and the actual wedding ceremony- everything was seamless. Rabbi Rudin always made us comfortable and able to be ourselves with her. Her ceremony was beautiful and we have received tons of compliments from family and friends on how great our rabbi was and how perfect the ceremony was! We highly recommend Rabbi Rudin!!!

She was absolutely amazing......met all of our expectations......remembering as she said you have Fenway as your chuppah! She personalized the service to everything we wanted!

Rabbi Rudin was our perfect officiant. My husband is Jewish and I'm not, so Rabbi Rudin spent a lot of time working with us to craft our ceremony. Every aspect of the finished product was unique to us and we felt such a personal connection with our day. It can be tricky to make sure both families feel included and welcomed when traditions are so different, but Rabbi Rudin did just that. If you're looking for some help crafting your ceremony and especially if you and your fiance come from different religious backgrounds, look no further!

Rabbi Rudin put together a beautiful ceremony for us without us needing to put in a lot of work on our end. The ceremony felt unique and special and I can't imagine having been married any other way! I'm very glad we went with Rabbi Rudin rather than a more generic justice of the peace.

Rabbi Jennifer officiated a wonderful wedding ceremony! She met with my husband and I before our wedding to hear what we envisioned for our ceremony, and brought our vision to life on our wedding day. Rabbi Jennifer does an amazing job leading a meaningful and beautiful wedding ceremony — we could not have asked for more! My husband and I recommend her to any couple planning a wedding!

My husband and I got married in July and had the pleasure of Rabbi Jennifer Rudin to lead our ceremony. Rabbi Jennifer really took the time to get to know my husband and I. We had several meetings in order to ensure that the ceremony not only had Jewish traditions but also encompassed traditions from my husbands Irish background. She helped to point us in the right direction when it came to choosing our katubah, writing our vows, getting our family and closest friends involved in our ceremony and everything in between. A couples wedding day is one of the most important days of their life together and we are so grateful to have had such a wonderful, caring, genuine person help us create the ceremony we dreamt of.

Rabbi Rudin is wonderful! She really took the time to personalize our ceremony to us. She was also incredibly helpful with any questions that we had along the way. She took the time to meet with us on multiple occasions before our wedding day to get to know us and personalize our entire ceremony. Thank you Rabbi Rudin!

In my review, I will tell you ALL that you need to know about Rabbi Jennifer Rudin...She is best described by ALL of the following---Loving, Joyful, Compassionate, Intelligent, Meaningful, Imaginative, Empathetic, Composed, Thoughtful, Caring, Calming, Understanding, Creative, Purposeful, Wise, Supportive, Hopeful, Perceptive, Diligent, Engaging, Deliberate, Determined, Whimsical, Accepting, Inclusive, Earnest, Resourceful, Focused, Patient, Determined, Clever, Peaceful, Knowledgeable, Passionate, Comforting, Communicative, Sincere, Enlightening, Logical, Genuine, Spirited, Mindful, Collaborative, Touching, Inspiring, Helpful, Accessible, Personable, Articulate, Timely, Introspective, Funny, Tender, Sensitive, Classy, Poised, Flexible, Honest, Candid, Open-minded, Detail-oriented, Devoted, Poignant, and a truly WONDERFUL Rabbi.

Rabbi Rudin made planning our wedding ceremony an easy and loving experience. She took time to get to know my husband and I and tried to find ways to incorporate traditions from my culture (Thai) into our wedding. we loved having Rabbi Rudin be apart of our ketubah signing and wedding ceremony and would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a great Rabbi

We’re very happy we chose Rabbi Rudin as our officiant. I am Jewish, and my husband does not practice any religion. I had always wanted to have a Jewish wedding, but I do not currently belong to a temple. I wanted to find a rabbi who would work with us to incorporate both our preferences in the ceremony and who wouldn’t pressure us to get involved with a congregation. We met with Rabbi Rudin three times before the wedding to plan out the ceremony and get to know her. We appreciated being able to meet with her on Sundays so we didn’t have to change our work schedules. Rabbi Rudin created a personalized and meaningful ceremony for us combining Jewish and secular traditions. She also allowed for (and encouraged) my in-laws to include some Chinese wedding traditions. Many guests commented to me on specific things in the ceremony they really liked. We had an outdoor ceremony, with no cover (other than our chuppah which was made of mesh fabric and not waterproof!), and it started to rain in the middle. Rabbi Rudin was so calm and graceful and continued on and helped put everyone at ease. I noticed she even had her notes prepared in plastic page protectors! She had also asked me about what color to wear for the photos—she pays attention to those details. Her fee was very reasonable. We enjoyed working with her and highly recommend.

Rabbi Rudin was attentive to our vision and our needs! She took the time to meet with us and craft the perfect vision for our wedding. I highly recommend her services!

Rabbi Rudin was a wonderful co-officiant for my interfaith wedding! My husband and I spoke with her multiple times prior to our wedding day. She helped us create a customized a ceremony which fit both of our religions and backgrounds. She is very accommodating and was available via phone or email for any questions prior to my big day. She travelled from Boston to Vermont for our wedding. I would highly recommend her to anyone getting married in the New England area.

Rabbi Rudin is the best! We interviewed a handful of Rabbi's and knew from the moment we met her, that she was it. If your looking for someone who is energetic, beyond knowledgeable, and really takes their time to get to know you as a couple, you've found her. She helped us in so many ways (ketuba, chuppah, glass). While other Rabbi's may bake you into their 'wedding template', Rabbi Rudin made sure to include our ideas/vision which made our wedding day so special. We couldn't have asked for anything better. Thank you Rabbi Rudin!

Rabbi Rudin was AMAZING!!! She was by far our favorite vendor of the entire day. My now husband and I had to plan our wedding from out of state and in a different time zone. This was easier than every thanks to Rabbi Rudin's flexibility. We skyped, facetimed, whenever we needed to and it really felt like she got to know us as a couple. My husband never met her before but he agreed with my wholeheartedly on the matter. It was no competition when it came to deciding who would marry us. One thing that stood out to me was the first question she asked us on our first skype call: tell me about you, as a couple, your families and you're life together. WOW!! You can bet no other vendor asked me any of that for our "big day". She helped guide on the items we needed provided at the ceremony, with clear instructions of what we needed to supply and what she would have available already. She helped guide us to find a ketubah, the glass to break, all of it! We got to customize the ceremony to how we wanted it to be, along with her guidance on explaining some of the traditions behind each thing. Lastly, this is minor but we really loved it; she had her back to the audience so that our guests could see our faces during the ceremony and we could see them. It was so nice. We LOVED Rabbi Rudin and you will too when you decide to hire her for your event.

Jennifer was such an amazing addition to our wedding day! Her thoughtful manner and her open communication was so appreciated, she made sure both myself and the groom felt truly comfortable with the words she chose (as we are an interfaith couple). Jennifer made our wedding ceremony absolute perfection and we are beyond grateful:)