Communal Joy for Seven Days
May there soon be heard, Lord our G-d, in the cities of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem, the sound of joy and the sound of celebration, the voice of a bridegroom and the voice of a bride, the happy shouting of bridegrooms from their weddings and of young men from their feasts of song. — From the Sheva Brachot, the Jewish wedding blessings, www.ou.org/wedding/7brachot.htm