I love this idea. The bride and groom asked members of their bridal party - close friends and relatives to hold their chuppah. Since the wedding was in a park they couldn't suspend it from a ceiling or cement it into the ground. The four chosen gentlemen carried the chuppah down the aisle and stood holding it during the ceremony.

The groom built the chuppah using four bamboo poles, wire and his father’s tallis. He slipped the wire through a hole in each corner of the tallis and wrapped it tightly around the top of each pole.

If you are thinking of having your bridal party do this at your wedding, I highly recommend making sure the poles are tall enough so that the bottom of it can rest on the ground, and the tallis is high enough over the couple and officiant’s heads so they don’t bump into it.

You also want to make it comfortable for the pole bearers – they shouldn’t have to raise the pole/tallis in the air, especially if the ceremony will be more than 5-10 minutes, which most are.

Click here for instructions on how to build your own chuppah.