Sheva Brachot (Hebrew: שבע ברכות‎) literally "the seven blessings" also known as birkot Nesuim (Hebrew: ברכות נישואים‎), "the wedding blessings" in Jewish religious law are blessings that are recited for a bride and her groom as part of nissuin. In Jewish marriages there are two stages - betrothal (erusin) and establishing the full marriage (nissuin); historically there was often at least a month between the two events, but in most modern marriages, the two are combined as a single wedding ceremony.