Metro Detroiters are
findinedifferent" ways to
mark special occasions.

Ray and Barbara Horenstein renewed their vows, with
Rabbi Harold Loss and Cantor Harold Orbach officiating.

3/31
2000

Ca

BILL CARROLL
Special to. the Jewish News

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hari Kaufman wore her wedding gown
— so did the rest of the "brides."
Instead of cruising, the Globermans
went spelunking.
The Horensteins walked into what they
thought was a simple party, then they walked
down the aisle and repeated their vows.
Stuart Lockman had a nice, "quiet" birthday
— biking, hiking, kayaking and running.
A Jewish farmer and his wife were about to cel-
ebrate their 25th wedding anniversary She asked:
"Should I kill a chicken for tonight?" He said:
"Why blame 'a bird for something that `happened
.
25 years ago."
Okay, the last story is fictional. But the others
are true. They were some of the more unusual
ways that local Jewish people celebrated their
wedding anniversaries and birthdays in recent
years. Instead of marking an anniversary with a
mundane cake in a local restaurant, they had the
spunk and initiative to do something different.
Shari and Alon Kaufman of West Bloomfield
did a couple of things differently. On their first
anniversary 13 years ago, he arranged a romantic,
candlelit dinner in their dining room. Dressed in
a gown and tuxedo, they ate a gourmet meal from
Paul Kohn's Quality Kosher Catering, served by a
butler as music played, then went to the Fisher
Theatre in Detroit.
"But our 10th anniversary celebration topped
everything," said Shari, 36, a lawyer and the
mother of five children ranging in age from 10 to
four months. Alon, 37, owns a personal care
product business in Commeice Township.
They invited 120 people to "another wedding"
at the Ritz-Cadton Hotel in Dearborn, with the
stipulation that the women had to wear their origi-
nal wedding "gowns and the men came in tuxedos;
divorcees wore black outfits. "The women dieted
for weeks so they could get into those gowns,"
Shari laughed. "We warned them far in advance
with 'save-the-date' notes, then hand-delivered the
actual invitations with Godiva chocolates."
The Kaufrn.ans renewed their vows, with her
father, Fred Ferber, officiating, followed by a
full dinner. The party, with music by the Mel
Ball Orchestra,
until 4:30 a.m. The
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