The Givat Sharett Chesed Committee’s Simcha Gemach is your “one-stop-shop” for information and essential items for planning a wedding.

Our comprehensive 6th Edition 60-page Wedding Guide is available in both English and Hebrew. It has been hailed as a “must have” for your wedding planning purposes, as it includes hundreds of tips about how to organize and plan a most memorable wedding.

It also features listings of wedding vendors, by recommendation only, including:

  • caterers
  • bands
  • photographers and videographers
  • printers
  • wedding gowns and clothing for the bridal party – stores and gemachim
  • hair stylists, makeup artists and more

In addition, The Wedding Guide provides step-by-step guidance on items needed for the Shabbat Chatan/Aufruf and/or Sheva Brachot; items needed to set up the new household; the order of the Chuppah and more.

An added bonus are personalized letters to the chatan and kallah on the topics of pre-marriage education and halachic pre-nuptial halachic agreements, as well as a listing of recommended wedding-related books.

The GSCC Simcha Gemach also has available for sale:

  • exquisite laminated Sheva Brachot cards for the chuppah as well as the week of Sheva Brachot
  • tefillot for the chatan, tefillot for the kallah, tefillot for the mother of the Chatan/Kallah and tefillot in honor of the chatan and kallah, to be recited by the guests
  • attractively decorated baskets with emergency supplies for the wedding hall (sewing kit, hair pins, kippah clips, bandages, wipes and more), also great for Bar and Bat Mitzvahs

Available for rent, for residents of Givat Sharett, Beit Shemesh:

  • custom-made jewelry and imported tiaras for the kallah
  • candles for the chuppah for the parents of the chatan/kallah
  • Machzor L’Yom HaChuppah for the kallah on her wedding day including all tefillot for the day of the wedding. All nusachs available.

All of these items and more are available from The Givat Sharett Chesed Committee Simcha Gemach, in memory of Feigel bat Tuvia Nisan.

For more information, and for a price list, contact  simchagemach@gmail.com .

Proceeds go towards projects helping the needy of Beit Shemesh.