A wondrous moment at a wedding:

I attended a wedding yesterday at which the bride decided she wanted to join the kahal to say Mincha. As usual in a big hotel, the Groom’s Tisch was at least 100 yards from where the bride was sitting on her throne. She simply got up and started walking towards the tisch. Her attendants and others circled her, singing and dancing.

As she approached the room with the Tisch, people near the entrance saw an impossible sex-role reversal: apparently the bride had come to unveil and inspect the groom! People gazed at the approaching procession in horror, with mouths agape, stunned, not knowing whether or how to panic. It was a wonderful moment.

Then the bride stepped into the women’s section of the Tisch, where a mechitza had already been arranged for the dozen or so who also wanted to say mincha with the kahal, and all was well again.