WEDDING DAY 2.0 | OCTOBER 23, 2020
Join us for socially-distanced, virtual wedding & reception
Timeline
Friday, 10.23.2020
2:00pm PT
(4p CT / 5p ET)
Let the ceremony begin!
3:00pm PT
(5p CT / 6p ET)
Virtual Cooking Class (advance sign-up REQUIRED)
5:30pm
(7:30p CT / 8:30p ET)
Virtual Shabbat Dinner Reception
Attire
COVID “Work from Home” Chic
OR
as dressed up as you want (or don’t want) to get
Mostly, we just want to see your beautiful faces on camera, and will do our best to take several group photos.
Official wedding program and access details are in the works.
Stay tuned.
Please RSVP below, asap, to help us with logistics.
Cooking Class + Reception Details
Join us for a family-fun virtual cooking class!
Important note: “Bring Your Own Meal” dinner reception will begin after the class. If you can’t join the class, please consider re-joining us for the dining portion.
Details below
One of our few highlights throughout this pandemic have been our virtual cooking classes with SF-based company, Truffle Shuffle — founded by two chefs and a sommelier from world-renowned, 3-Michelin star restaurant The French Laundry.
The Truffle Shuffle team has graciously allowed us to depart from their regular private class menu to allow us to introduce you to one of our favorite classes, to-date, that’s great for the whole family!
What’s for dinner?
For the Shabbat dinner reception, we’ll be making a French classic: Truffled Roast Chicken Demi Deuil. Roast chicken may sound simple for a wedding meal, but we assure you … this was really fun to make, we learned a lot, and it was incredibly DELICIOUS!!! — plus for those of you with young kiddos, there are plenty of opportunities for them to help with the cooking.
The meal is plenty for 4 adults.
How much will it cost?
Sadly, given all the money we lost on the original wedding, including not getting a refund from the original caterer that we were flying in, we’re unable to pay for everyone, as we wish we could.
The price for the class, which includes all of the organic ingredients shipped straight to your door is $125. Additionally, for each kit sold, TruffleShuffle will provide a meal to a local health care worker in our current hometown of the San Francisco Bay Area.
What about the vegetarians?
Well, that’s the last piece of bummy news we have to deliver … We sincerely apologize for not having a vegetarian cooking class option. All of their veggie options were predominately dairy & gluten based … the bride is allergic to both :-(
All vegetarians and others who can’t make the cooking class, please, still join us at 5:30p PT (7:30p CT / 8:30p ET) with your own meal for the virtual reception. We love you!
“Bring Your Own Meal” Virtual Shabbat Reception
We’re excited to dine with all of our family and friends during this “BYOM”-style virtual wedding reception. Haven’t heard of doing a virtual dinner with fam and friends? Don’t worry neither had we — we’re making all this up as we go along. Our priority is keeping our family and friends safe during this wild time, so we’re getting creative over here. It’s going to be fun!
Jake & Erica in the Old City of Jerusalem on the hotel rooftop where Mark Twain once stayed (The Dome of the Rock is prominent in the background — June 2019).
What’s Shabbat, you ask?
According to the Jewish Torah, Shabbat commemorates the day that God rested from creating the world; the word Shabbat literally means “he rested.” Shabbat begins every Friday night at sundown and continues until Saturday evening at sundown. (And weddings are traditionally frowned-upon during the Jewish Sabbath, hence our early Friday ceremony)
On Shabbat, it’s customary to greet friends and family with “Shabbat Shalom!” or in Yiddish, “Gut Shabbos!” and to gather for one of three meals, the Friday evening one being the most popular.
Guests are truly considered to be an integral part of any Shabbat meal — our wedding dinner wouldn’t feel complete without you (and your kiddos), we only wish we could be with you all in person!
Our virtual dinner reception will begin at 5:30p PT (7:30p CT / 8:30p ET). We will kick off the evening with the bride leading everyone in candle lighting, a couple of traditional hymns, followed by the groom reciting the kiddush, a blessing over a cup of wine as a way of fulfilling the mitzvah (commandment), sanctifying the day of rest. And then we eat! It’ll will be a lovely time of casual conversation and toasts.
RSVP
Please let us know no later than Thursday October 15th
Have Questions?
Contact us.
Jacob Plummer
email: jacob@jrplummer.com
cell: (312) 730 - 4595
Erica McLain
email: erica.ashley@me.com
cell: (650) 441 - 9898
This virtual wedding as been forced upon us by COVID … and we can’t wait to love every minute of it with you, from a safe distance. Thanks for being part of our wacky experiment.