The kallah stood in the wedding hall with a list in her hand. The hall manager looked over the details. “What about the music?” She hesitated. “No band,” she said softly. “We’ll play music through the speakers.” “And the photographer?” someone asked. She looked down. “Maybe we’ll just take pictures on our cameras. Oh, and we don’t really need hot food.”

This wasn’t the wedding she dreamed of, but there was no father standing beside her saying, “Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it.”

Wedding planning should be filled with excitement, decisions, and dreams. But for an orphaned chosson or kallah in Eretz Yisroel, it comes with a painful reality: everything has a price, and there is no parent to fill the gap. This is where Simcha Fund steps in.

For more than two decades, Simcha Fund, led by R’ Yanky Shisha of Tov V’Chesed, has been making sure that yesomim without a parent to rely on can still begin their lives with a dignified wedding. They cover the costs of weddings for chassanim and kallos across Eretz Yisroel, ensuring that a missing parent doesn’t mean a missing simcha. To date, over 3,300 weddings have already been made possible.

Now, through the Simcha Group, you have the opportunity to join in.

By pledging any amount toward a wedding Simcha Fund makes, whether $1, $5, or more, you become part of every simcha. You become the person who makes sure another chosson or kallah doesn’t have to choose which necessity to give up.

Each member is charged their chosen amount whenever the Simcha Group sponsors another wedding. One person gives a dollar, another gives five, someone else gives more, and together, those contributions become a complete wedding.

They become the flowers on the tables, the music filling the hall, the food shared with family and friends, and the small details that turn a wedding into the simcha it deserves to be.

Join the Simcha Group today. Be the one who stands in place of the parents who are no longer there and help build a new Jewish home with dignity.

Every wedding needs a mechutan. This time, it could be you.

לא היו ימים טובים לישראל כטו באב

As Tu B’Av approaches, a day of building homes in Klal Yisroel, there can be no more fitting time.

Join the Simcha Group today with any amount you can.

Be the Baal Simcha.
www.simchagroup.org