Chuppah Glass for Breaking - Wedding by Gary Rosenthal

So I married a Jewish girl and I needed one of these. I tried to crush it at the end of the ceremony, and maybe this is because I'm not Jewish, but the bag tore and the glass shot out, unbroken. "Sorry! I'm not Jewish!" I shouted to the assembled crowd, to many laughs. My officiant and I shoved it back in the bag, and my new wife and I pressed down hard together, and the glass went to pieces. The best part? My photographer got an action shot of the glass pirouetting through the air!!They could've built the bag a little better, but whatever. That action shot was worth it! :)Here's to a lifetime of happiness!

Blue Chuppah Glass was perfect! No issues/problems at all... The shards were used as part of a beautiful Gary Rosenthal sculpture.

My wedding went even better than I expected. The glass break worked easily on the first try and it was beautiful as-delivered. The glass was broken into a million pieces. Well, I don't know exactly how many pieces but it shattered sufficiently. The noise was quite muffled from being wrapped in the safety cloth and stuffed into a secondary cloth bag. Even though it instantly stomped flat I do not think some in the audience realized it because of how muffled the sound was.Now we just need to decide on making some keepsake from the shards other than the ubiquitous mezuzahs I see most places.

You only get ONE glass and you don't get to pick the colour but that's the only complaint I have. It worked great! It takes a little dexterity to wrap the glass in the linen and get it back into the pouch but you don't have to worry about getting poked after that. Great product.

Went to step down and the glass shot out of the bag! Got a good picture of our faces of the reaction, it is quite hilarious. Luckily we all had a sense of humor and laughed it off. A tip for future buyers, make sure the bag is TIED TIGHT before stomping on it, or it'll shoot down the aisle like it did for me and apparently another buyer! Cool idea tho, we will probably turn the shards of glass into either a picture frame with the picture of our faces as it shot out, or you can turn it into a mezuzah ? Lots of ideas. I would suggest having a base at the end to prevent it from shooting out.

My wife cautioned me by reading a few of the reviews, suggested we use a wine glass/lightbulb instead. I being a macho idiot saw it as a challenge and thought the sound of some thick glass breaking outweighed the risk of needing a couple of tries to get the job done. OKAY so let’s get this straight, the glass is the thickness of a highball/collins glass. If you manage to break it in one stomp, you might be superhuman. We made the mistake of only tying the bag with one knot. After the first missed attempt at breaking it, on second try it shot out at rocket speed, perfectly down the aisle and into our photographers leg about 30 feet away. It made a spectacular sound, an eventful and funny memory but in hindsight it could have SERIOUSLY hurt someone, especially the children in the front row. On third attempt (once back in bag, double knot) I still wasn’t able to break it. Fourth try was a charm. It did indeed break, but with the force necessary to break it, the sound of the glass was overtaken by the sound of my foot slamming on the wood floor as if I was trying to literally break the floor beneath it. The bag was torn from the thick glass shards, and sadly because of it, we didn’t take it home. Another moment of hindsight, I’m lucky it didn’t stab me in the foot through the cushioned soles of my shoes. This thing is entirely too thick to be used for this purpose.

Structurally sound and beautiful as it was, it put forth its best effort to survive the crushing blow, but it could not. It imploded as would a neutron star being born. And like a neutron star would emit gamma rays, this glass emitted a lovely crunching sound, to the delight of all in attendance.

I loved that it shot out of the bag and spiraled across the room when I stomped on it; the laws of physics can hardly explain the trajectory and speed at which this little glass shot toward the back of the room. It bounced of two chairs and a camerawoman and still didn't break. As much as I loved it, the product is not supposed to work like that. It broke on the second try and buried glass into the the bottom of my leather shoes; that is some tough glass! My wedding was perfect and that kind of silliness is perfect for my kind of crowd. However, I can imagine some old school traditionalist that might not think it was funny. Definitely just do the light bulb thing. Mazel tov!