Host (Ten Minute Halacha)

that the Edim for Nisuin should be the same Edim that were made on the Kiddushin.

That you should have the same Edim for Nisuin and Kiddushin.

That assumes that you need Edim for Nisuin.

Typically, we do not designate Edim for Nisuin.

It depends what Nisuin is.

We do have Edim for Yichud, and some people have Edim for Badakin.

But he says we might as well use the same Edim.

That's why some Kiddushins are makbid.

that the Eid-e-Kedushin should stick around and be the same people that are the Eid-e-Yichud.

A lot of people don't do that because usually the Eid-e-Kedushin are very chashva people, because they want to make sure you have kosher Eidim, and it's not so nice to make them stand out while everyone else is dafning mar, they're stuck outside the Yichud room.

waiting for the Chassan and Kala, so some people don't like to do that, but that's based on that same idea.

Rav Chaim Palaji writes that on Lel Voshana Rabbah they light Neiros from the leftover Neiros of Yom HaKippurim.

And maybe that's why they use a talus for the chuppah as well.

This idea that since they do one mitzvah, maybe another mitzvah.

Of course, it may have developed out of convenience.

It could be that when they needed to make a chuppah, they needed a big cloth that was accessible to everybody.

And that didn't look weird.

So to take a tablecloth would have looked a little unwieldy and funny.

So they had a talus.

That was just out of convenience.