Decide how many candles you re going to light.
Bar mitzvah candle lighting order.
Friends of guest of honor 9.
If you re a bat mitzvah.
Candle lighting ceremonies have been around for decades.
Decide on the number of candles you would like to light.
Hold your horses there tiger.
If you re a bar mitzvah.
Some people add an extra candle for good luck.
Bar mitzvah bat mitzvah candle lighting poems and speeches once the big decisions like a venue dj theme photographer are out of the way you will start working.
You light 12 candles.
I know i know the answer is pretty obvious.
Then you decide what important people are going to be invited to light candles and the order in which they are called.
Guest of honor the usual amount of candles is 14 13 candles one for good luck.
Select the people you re going to invite to light a candle.
Sometimes the bat mitzvah girl will light the final candle.
The lesser family celebrated their bar mitzvah with a huge baseball themed cake.
Friends of parents 8.
Finally family friends the bat mitzvah girl s friends siblings and parents are invited to light.
Close family members and friends are generally chosen.
The hazen family used a drum set for their candle lighting ceremony and then donated the drum set.
The candle lighting ceremony for the lowenstein family featured mini tvs and within each one was a picture of one of the food network shows.
Many people first light a memorial candle for those who are no longer with us then they honor grandparents aunts and uncles then cousins older relatives and younger relatives.
Bar and bat mitzvah s seem to have been the founding event type for this rite of passage ceremony.
Here s what a typical bar bat mitzvah candle lighting order looks like.
This isn t exactly rocket science now is it.
Uncle steve cousins amy and justin etc the usual order for candle lighting is.
The debate however is whether or not to have a candle lighting ceremony and or how to make it unique or abbreviated without offending those who should be recognized.
Traditionally 13 or 14 candles one for each year of the bar mitzvah boy s life are lit.