May the Al-mighty bless each and every one of you that the preparations for the wedding be done in the spirit of Judaism and Chassidus, with joy and a good heart, amply and successfully.

May the wedding be in a good and auspicious hour, an everlasting edifice built on the foundations of Torah and mitzvos; and may you be blessed with sons and daughters who occupy themselves in Torah and mitzvos.

May you, before, during and after the wedding, engage in the dissemination of Judaism: Both by presenting a living example in your personal conduct, and by speaking enthusiastically and sincerely with your family and acquaintances about increasing in all matters of Judaism, to the extent that your house becomes a “meeting place for Sages” (Pirkei Avos 1:4).

Through the above, the true and complete redemption by our righteous Moshiach is hastened and brought near, which event will signal the marriage of Jews and G-d.

All these matters should be done in an ever-increasing manner, with joy and a good heart.

May we hear good tidings from you, before the wedding and afterwards, with good and long years.

Consonant to the custom in various places, the groom and bride should give tzedakah (from their own money) on the morning of their wedding. Their parents, brothers and sisters should do likewise, in the merit of the groom and bride. This will surely elicit yet more blessings from G-d for all the above. And since G-d sees now that you will do so on the wedding day, extra blessings are elicited even before the wedding; blessings for all one’s needs, and particularly concerning the preparations, material and spiritual, for the wedding.

The joy of the groom and bride is also the joy of all Israel. Indeed, it is a preparation to the joy of the future redemption, as we say in the “Sheva Berachos”: “L-rd our G-d, let there speedily be heard in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Judaism the sound of joy and the sound of happiness, the sound of a bride and the sound of a groom, the sound of exultation of grooms from under their chupah (wedding canopy), and youths from their joyous banquets.” As my participation in your joy, I shall give each of you a dollar to be given to tzedakah (in the merit of the groom and bride) on the wedding day, together and in addition to the tzedakah you will give from your own money.

As we have noted above, the fulfillment of the mitzvah of tzedakah will surely elicit further blessings from G-d in all things associated with the wedding, the preparations to the wedding, the “sheva berochos,” etc. Most importantly, may you, as a new “house in Israel,” speedily merit to greet our righteous Moshiach. Then all of us, with joy and good hearts, together shall go to our holy land, to the holy city of Yerushalayim, to the third Bais Hamikdosh — “the Sanctuary which your hands, O L-rd, have established (Beshallach 15:17).”