Thread by @JYuter

1. When I was in the US and officiated weddings, I'd often try to get as many women involved as possible depending on the needs and wishes of the couple.

Here's a brief thread of a few things I did to integrate more women into the ceremony without compromising halakhah.

https://twitter.com/mominisrael/status/1449808867727220749

2. First, where relevant, I'd ask women to sign the civil marriage license. Although women cannot serve as halakhic witnesses, there is no problem for signing on as civil witnesses

3. If the chuppah required people to physically hold the poles, I'd include women among the "pole bearers."

(Yes, I explicitly call them, "pole bearers" and at one wedding someone even said, "Hey! That sounds like, 'pall bearers!'")

4. At the last wedding I performed in the US, we called up the reciters of the sheva berachot in pairs of a man and woman with the man reading the blessing and the woman reading a translation

5. I don't think there's any halakhic problem with this considering there's no halakhic obligation to read the ketuvah in the first place. Still, not many people feel comfortable reading Aramaic out loud in public and it might not be worth the fight.

6. I never spoke under the chuppah mostly bec no one asked and I didn't have any special insights into marriage to insist. However, there's no reason women can't speak under the chuppah to address the new couple.

7. While there's more that can be done halakhically, the examples I gave above can be done with minimal fighting or complaining in comparison,