JEWISH & INTERFAITH WEDDINGS-Rabbi Michael Raab

Rabbi Raab was wonderful and so kind! He took the time out to meet us for the first time and explain the details of our ceremony. My husband is Jewish and I'm a Christian who's parents dont' speak any english. He made sure to include both faiths equally during our ceremony as well as translating versus into spanish for my parents. The ceremony on the day of our wedding was beautiful.

Rabbi Michael Raab was an excellent officiant at my beach wedding! He is very professional, but also has a sense of humor, and truly cares! It was an honor to be wed by him :)

Our priest was running late and the weather was not on our side, but Rabbi Michael kept everything running smoothly and when the priest arrived they both did a fantastic job. We would highly recommend both of these officiants.

There is a Jewish proverb that says: God is a great matchmaker — and we concur.
While we waited a long time to find one another, we are a great match — stronger together and more in love every day; we couldn't be happier. And when we decided to actually join in marriage, we were led to Rabbi Michael Raab— a great match too. We commend him on striking just the right tone for our ceremony — humor, warmth and spirituality. The effect of Hebrew, English and Spanish during the most intimate moments was extraordinarily beautiful and the time he spent getting to know us before was extremely clear to our family and friends…and to us….and invaluable.
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Rabbi Raab officiated our wedding last weekend. We wanted a traditional jewish ceremony and he came through with flying colors. He created the exact ceremony we had asked him for and was so accomodating and helpful throughout the whole process of planning the ceremony. He made us feel very comfortable and we were both able to really enjoy the special moment of getting married. I highlly recommend Rabbi Raab for your wedding day.
Heather

Rabbi Raab truly made our big day even more special. He was so thoughtful and creative and blended my Buddhist background with my husband's Jewish faith perfectly. Our families and friends loved him and thought he did an amazing job too!

Rabbi Michael

Nadya and I would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making our special day so unforgettable. The fact Nadya comes from Ukraine, I come from Scotland and the wedding was in Naples you helped to make both our families comfortable and supported us before the wedding and made our ceremony so special for us and even surprised us with your Russian too  You are a special man and forever will have a special place in our hearts

Nadya and Colin

Rabbi Raab did a great job for our wedding. We were quick to make a connection with Michael. He did an excellent job of catering to our wishes for the ceremony. Finally, our ceremony was a beautiful celebration of our love, and we couldn't have asked for a better officiant.

Rabbi Raab was simply amazing. He made us feel comfortable and relaxed during the wedding.
He spoke and explained the ceremony in English, Spanish and Hebrew which made it that much more special. We got to know him a bit more during the events that lead to the wedding. He is a nice and easy to talk to. I highly recommend his service. Our wedding was in Quito-Ecuador.

Could not have asked for a better officiant! Rabbi Raab was very responsive and flexible while planning the wedding and provided us with a perfect ceremony! I would highly recommend him to all!

hello everyone and congrats on your big day...let me start off by saying that i neverrr in my lifeeee though finding the perfect rabbi could have been so stressful especially for interfaith marriage. the day finally came where i had to get on the phones and start my research....as everyone else, i googled every keyword for my needs. the 1st link was Rabbi Raab.. when i called him it was as if we had known each other for so many years and its almost as if he knew exacttlyyyy what i was looking for just by speaking with me...the most special touch is when i told him we have a 4 year old and right away he suggested we did something special for her and do a sand ceremony undr the huppa... not only that...but considering my husbands family is catholic and spanish speaking, he explained duringthe ceremony in spanish about the huppa and the jewish ceremony..i pray the camera man caught the gasp of air and awwwssss everyone expressed when they heard him speaking spanish.. rabbi you are a trueeee definition of a gret person adn rabbi.. besides always following up, returning calls and being ontime.. i am veryyy greatful for your help services and bonding of my family!!! with love and admiration and as i am tearing up writing you this you are forever in our family!!

Rabbi Michael was personable, compassionate, understanding and flexible. He made me feel like I knew him for years rather than just a short while. He listened to our story on how we met and our first conversation lasted almost an hour. I felt very comfortable and trustworthy from the beginning. I was nervous about having a mixed ceremony but he put me at ease and made sure to integrate the Jewish faith seemlessly. He answered all of my questions and concerns and was very responsive. I highly recommend Rabbi Michael Raab!

Beautiful service. Easy to work with and always available to discuss questions we had.

Rabbi Michael Raab exceeded our expectations on our wedding day, September 22nd at the Venetian Golf and River Club in Nokomis, FL. From the moment we met him, he was everything you can expect from a Minister of God. Three days prior to our wedding, he organized a conference call and went through all the steps of the wedding ceremony. He co-officiated our wedding in a wonderful way with Dr. Daniel Lamey, whom we met through him. He has been sent from heaven to us and I highly recommend him if you want to have an unforgettable wedding like ours. All of our guests praised his labor of love during our outstanding and awesome wedding ceremony.

Carmen and Stuart
Married by Rabbi Michael Raab on 9.22.2012

Rabbi micheal did a wonderful job officiating our wedding. We felt like he was part of our family.

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We were married by Rabbi Michael Raab on July 22, 2012....It was a beautiful wedding on the beach in Naples at the La Playa Hotel. Rabbi Raab did a beautiful wedding service for us and made us feel that his heart and soul was into the occasion. We wanted a very tradtional service and Rabbi Raab did all of this for us. We will have very found memories of our wonderful ceremony and Rabbi Raab.

Rabbi Raab was great. I highly recommend him for anykind of ceremony. His tri-lingual (ENG, HEB, SPN) abilities made our interfaith ceremony very special. Thank you Rabbi Raab!!

Rabbi Michael Raab was wonderful. I could not have asked for anything else!

My husband is of the Jewish faith and I am of the Christian faith. I found Rabbi Michael to be very embracing of both our faiths and did not make me feel disconnected from my fiancée (at the time) faith or from my own. He has wonderful ideas on not only marrying us, but our faiths as well. He communicated with my officiant and together they performed a beautiful ceremony for us. We were so pleased, many of our guest commented on how nice it was. Rabbi Michael combines, tradition, faith and fun in to one perfect bundle. I loved that he was bilingual in Spanish, as well; thus when my fiancée spoke Hebrew during the ceremony I could recite in Spanish (gives you a run down of ceremony for practicing) for my part. My only regret is that we do not live close enough to attend in services Rabbi Michael might hold. Truly a great experience!!

Amazing in every way!! Couldn't be more pleased!

Rabbi Michael Raab made our wedding extra special. He was not only professional but so much fun. The ceremony was beautiful and he was the life of the party at the reception. His dancing skills are amazing. We feel lucky to have had the pleasure of meeting Rabbi Raab and would recommend him again and again.

Rabbi Michael Raab has got to be the best Rabbi by far. This was the second marriage for both my husband and I and he made our ceremony so personal and memorable. My husband said he felt totally relaxed becuase of the this Rabbi. I forgot the marriage license at home and he took care of sending it to the clerk and it was in the county system when we got back from our honeymoon. He made my day so stress free and our beach wedding so perfect!! I highly recommend him.

Rabbi Michael along with Fr. Luis made our wedding day truly special. It was perfect! Our ceremony was a perfect blend and all our guests including us were touched.

Rabbi raab was a pleasure to work with. He did exactly what we asked and we had a wedding that will never be forgotten.

The Ceremony was beautiful! I had people coming up to me and really loved it.

My husband and I are from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. Rabbi Michael was not only professional but he really did a great job incorporating our cultures into the ceremony. He also was great at taking our suggestions, blending them with his own and made them come together beautifully. He was really instrumental in making our wedding day very special.

Our wedding included both Judaism and Catholicism. Rabbi Michael Raab worked very well with Father Joaquin Perez. The ceremony was very inclusive of both religions and very fluid. The guests were very happy about both religions being represented so well. Rabbi Michael is very personable and we would highly recommend him.

I highly recommend Rabbi Michael Raab for everybody of Jewish faith and Jewish interfaith wedding ceremonies. Rabbi Raab is the most compassionate, kind, caring, and warm person, and he truly puts his heart in to marrying couples. His officiating performance has touched my guests' hearts and we all truly enjoyed his service for us of my wedding. We had him stay for the reception event after the ceremony which he participated in the joy of our celebration. His fee(s) is/are honest and reasonable, he provided the poles for the chuppah and the Ketubah. He is a very heartwarming Rabbi I have ever met. You will never regret it. It is all well worth it. My wife and I plan to have him for our future events such as the baby blessing ceremony, etc.

Rabbi Michael Raab is the consummate professional and a terrific officiant to those who might be seeking a rabbi for their wedding day. During the wedding planning process, which can a bit stressful, Rabbi Michael quickly answered our questions that came up and was a calming influence that got us prepared for the big day. On the day of the event at Deering Estate in Miami, 01/28/12, he was early to arrive and set up. In addition, he did a fantastic job officiating the wedding and explained the rituals to the audience in a very lucid, clear manner. Following the wedding, I received so much positive feedback about the Rabbi from my guests. For anybody who is unsure about who to select as an officiant, you can rest assure that if you choose Rabbi Michael Raab you will get a responsible, hard working, and excellent rabbi for your ceremony.

Rabbi Michael performed our Jewish wedding ceremony on 1/14/12 at South Seas Island Resort in Captiva, FL. Throughout the entire wedding planning process, he was warm, caring, extremely flexible and knowledgable. He made great recommendations that we used on our wedding day He is a wonderful person and Rabbi. He took the time to meet with members of my family to get to know everyone and make sure there were no outstanding questions or concerns. The actual ceremony he performed was beautiful and he did a perfect job.

I recommend Rabbi Michael Raab without any reservations!

Marti Markus

Rabbi Michael co-officiated our wedding. We could not have been more pleased. We were planning an interfaith destination wedding. We feel extremely lucky to have been referred to Rabbi Michael who worked so well with Dr. Dan. Because we were planning from 1,400 miles away we had limited time to meet in-person. Rabbi Michael was great via e-mail-very timely in his response. Since only had 1 in-person meeting prior to our wedding, Rabbi Michael scheduled a few phone conversations with us in order to prepare for our ceremony. The interfaith ceremony was beautiful- our guests continue to compliment how well our officiants worked together. Rabbi Michael was great with both of our families and did a fantastic job with an impromptu blessing requested by our parents at the reception. For these reasons and more we highly recommend Rabbi Michael for your special day.

Rabbi Raab truly helped make our wedding so special and fantastic. I would highly recommend him for anyone who is having either an interfaith wedding or traditional jewish ceremony. He added so much to an already wonderful celebration!

Rabbi Michael Raab was fantastic. He worked around my busy schedule during the planning states. My husband and I had run into a a small issue the morning of the ceremony and Rabbi Raab assured us everything would be perfect and it was. He performed the ceremony without a hitch. Everything went according to plan and Rabbi Raab had so much to do with that. Thank you Rabbi, we could not have asked for a better ceremony to join two families as one.

My husband and I have different religious backgrounds (he is Lutheran, I am Sikh) and both of my parents are deceased. As a result, we decided on doing a spiritual ceremony at our wedding that would honor both of our backgrounds. I was a little nervous doing a spiritual ceremony since I know many people aren't familiar with the Sikh religion.

Rabbi Michael provided us with an absolutely beautiful ceremony that included both of our religions and honored both of my parents. He was very patient, knowledgeable, and respectful of our individual wishes. He took the time to research various things about my religion and was very respectful of little traditional Indian touches that we added to the ceremony. The various readings he included were incredibly moving (but not cheesy)--our guests commented the entire night at the reception that it felt like a very personal and intimate wedding ceremony.

Rabbi Michael was on time on the wedding day (funny because we were an hour late starting due to a power outage in the entire city!), was very quick to reply to emails and phone calls, and was very calm and professional on our wedding day despite the chaos. Prior to the wedding, I thought that I was going to cry during the entire ceremony but Rabbi Michael's calm voice/nature kept me focused in the moment...and everything turned out beautifully. I'm so incredibly grateful that he made our wedding day so beautiful and rich with love. :) It was truly a memorable event. (On a final note, we received our wedding license right after we got home from the honeymoon as he submitted everything right away.)

All in all, I am so incredibly happy and proud to have our ceremony officiated by Rabbi Michael and I would recommend his services to anyone. :-)

Rabbi Raab performed.such a lovely ceremony for our family and friends. He is a kind,caring, & well spoken man who we are grateful to call as our new friend.
Tammy and Gary Frost, Aventura, Florida.

Rabbi Michael was absolutely the best rabbi I could have ever hoped for. It truly was bashert (meant to be) that we came across him. He was totally willing to co-officiate our interfaith ceremony with my husbands pastor from his hometown. When the pastor cancelled, I called Rabbi Michael and asked him if he knew anyone he had done interfaith ceremonies with, and he didn't hesitate for a second. He introduced us to Dr. Dan Lamey and the two of them performed the most beautiful ceremony. They drove 4 hours to come and meet my husband and I at my parents house 6 months before the wedding. They asked us about our story, ideas about our ceremony and helped us with suggestions. Rabbi Michael (and Dr. Dan) gave us the perfect, concise, heartfelt and sincere interfaith ceremony that we could have dreamed of. You can watch it here! http://vimeo.com/25788533 I would recommend Rabbi Michael for any Jewish or interfaith wedding in a heartbeat.

I am Jewish and my husband is Catholic. Rabbi Michael was amazing. He performed a beautiful ceremony in both English and Spanish. It was a very memorable and beautiful experience.

We highly recommend Rabbi Michael Raab and are so lucky we found him. As soon as we met, we felt like we knew him forever. He made us feel very comfortable right from the start. We knew we were in good hands. Rabbi Michael co-officiated with Father Joaquin and they conducted an amazing service. So many of our family and friends continue to rave about the job they did. It was a beautiful ceremony that included important parts of both our religions. We are so thankful to Rabbi Michael Raab for making our ceremony such a memorable and happy experience.

Rabbi Michael did an amazing job at my wedding. Everyone at our wedding told us how great of a performance he put on and that it was the nicest ceremony they had ever attended. I'm so glad we went with him!

I highly recommend Rabbi Michael Raab for your special day. His warm heart and great personality will bring your ceremony an abundance of joy and happiness. I work with Rabbi Raab and he is a pleasure to work with for High Holy Days, Bar/Bat Mitzvah's, Weddings and all your upcoming occasions.

Amazing person to work with...on time, professional, flexible...meets with the couple prior to the wedding...He performed one of my client's weddings and they were very pleased with his services. Highly recommended. A++++ very easy to get in touch with.

Experienced Rabbi who is personable, professional, and sincere. Rabbi Michael understands the love shared by a couple, and knows how to verbalized it in the words of a ceremony. Rabbi Michael knows the importance of working with other clergy- and he is a pleasure to work with.

I highly recommend Rabbi Michael Rabb. I have enjoyed the weddings performed together very much, besides his professionalism and profound knowledge of the Jewish ceremony, many couples I have referred to his care have expressed to me the kindness and love that Rabbi Michael has showed to them during the premarital process, his is our preferred Rabbi for interfaith ceremonies.

We always enjoy working with Rabbi Michael! His service is so wonderfully personalized and has just the perfect blend of reverence and humor. He truely makes the Ceremony an especially memorable event for all.