Colel Chabad’s twin Gutnick and Hadar Wedding Halls in Jerusalem provide subsidize weddings for 440 couples each year, as there are 220 days a year on the Jewish calendar on which weddings are permissible. Most of these couples are children of orphaned families, large families, or both.
The luxurious Gutnick and Hadar Wedding Halls of Colel Chabad are indistinguishable from the banquet facilities at fine hotels and private catering establishments. Here, even the poorest families can have joyous celebrations that will leave them with happy memories, rather than saddled with insurmountable debt.
Parenthetically, the inauguration of the Gutnick and Hadar Wedding Halls resulted in a market-wide reduction in the cost of weddings, a true boon to thousands of families every year who can barely afford to marry off their children.
“We make it possible for poor couples to have rich weddings”
