Rabbi Gloria Milner

Rabbi Milner presided over an interfaith wedding in Puerto Rico along with a priest and I could not be happier with her dedication and performance. She met us in person beforehand in her home in NYC and really took the time to get to know us, understand our families, the venue, everything. The service was well-​choreographed, meaningful and not too long. Our families were absolutely thrilled.

We were so fortunate to have Rabbi Gloria perform our wedding ceremony. Rabbi Gloria created a beautiful ceremony for us that brought about the right amount of Judaism and culture that we were looking for. Our friends and family all commented about the lovely ceremony Rabbi Gloria performed for us. She showed great warmth and genuine happiness for us. We would highly recommend Gloria to anyone!
We loved how Gloria took the time to get to know us and explain parts of the ceremony. This allowed us to customize the ceremony to include the parts that we felt were really important to us.

I have known Gloria my entire life and her family and mine have been very close for over three decades. As our rabbi, however, we were able to forge a different relationship– one where it was clear that my now-husband’s and my interests would be protected even where (as with every wedding) there many opinions about how our ceremony should proceed.
When we first met with Gloria, we were set on having a non-​denominational wedding, with the inclusion of a few Jewish traditions. I grew up as a reform New-​York Jew, and my now-​husband, grew up a California Mormon. Coming from such disparate backgrounds, we were worried that the inclusion of «too much» Judaism would alienate our other wedding guests, but that fear could not have been more unfounded.
Gloria takes the time to explain all of the parts of a Jewish wedding both in the meetings to create the ceremony, and during the wedding itself. Every prayer (whether in Hebrew or English) was given a context within our wedding and in the Jewish tradition.
This level of personalization and Gloria’s desire to be truly inclusive, allowed our Jewish-​Catholic-​Mormon guests to feel like they belonged together. In fact, my from-​Italy, Roman Catholic grandmother was one of the biggest fans of my ceremony!
We are so happy that we decided to include more, not fewer Jewish traditions at Gloria’s suggestion, because it gave our ceremony a different kind of significance and exposed our non-​Jewish guests to an expression of love that they may not have experienced before. We cannot thank Gloria enough for the time and effort she invested in our ceremony, and her warmth and humor at the wedding helped unite our families into one!