i WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT PLANNING AN INDIAN/INTERCULTURAL WEDDING Exactly one week ago, September 6th, 2008 was our Indian wedding ceremony aka “Big Fat Indian Wedding.” It has now been 8 years since that date; how time flies. August 15th, 2008 was our Christian ceremony in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. We had two separate …
Interracial/Intercultural Love Story We Kept Our Marriage A Secret For A Couple Of Years My husband and I have been together for 12 years and married for 7 years. We had a rocky start as my somewhat traditional Indian family had a very hard time accepting our relationship. We kept our marriage a secret for a couple …
5 Reasons Why I Didn’t Change My Last Name After We Got Married…I Actually Waited 3 Years To Do It. It’s not that I didn’t want to change my last name after getting married. Or that I didn’t want to have to go through the arduous process of sending in forms and standing in lines …
My Interracial/Intercultural Relationship Caused Me To Be Disowned By My Family This Relationship Is Not Allowed Growing up in an Indian family, I, Sachin became accustomed to hearing the normal stereotypes used to describe African-Americans, Asians, and a barrage of other ethnicities. From a family perspective, there wasn’t any ill my parents had with these ethnicities; …
GUEST POST BY BETSY KANAGAWA MEET THE KANAGAWA’S… NO SHE’S NOT ADOPTED! I met my husband, Niko, in September of 2009. We met on a free dating website. His pictures on the site were decent. I remember when I met him for the first time in person thinking “He’s better looking than in …
CELEBRITIES IN AFRICA WE ARE HEADED TO SOUTH AFRICA! Who knew that the Gupta surname (no, not Sanjay Gupta) carried so much weight in Africa? After my husband had told me that we were heading to South Africa (Cape Town and Johannesburg), I couldn’t help but to lose all composer and start doing a “Momma, …
I am going to preface this post by saying that we enjoyed Texas. Half my family on my mom’s side of the family resides in Texas and they have done so for over a decade. Nonetheless during our time in the state we discovered some “unspoken truths” that really open your eyes to how cultural differences are not only …
BLACK IN INDIA November 2015 was my first visit to India. After 7 years of marriage, my 2 year old daughter and I were finally going to be meeting our extended family. We had ventured on this initial trip with my husband’s parents as our security detail, entourage, and everything in between. We are looking forward …
The Art Of Interracial Marriage Thoughts Before Marriage In my early 20’s I would not have prescribed to marriage as being an art. Perhaps just two people being hopelessly in love and wanting to devote the rest of their lives to each other. Understanding that the beauty of true friendship will outweigh the frills that come …
I Married Indian. Now, What? I Feel Left Out Glancing, from the living room into the kitchen we watched my mother-in-law quickly reprimand Amaya for taking the crayon out of her right-hand and placing it into her left. Amaya firmly belted out, “No, Amma (meaning paternal grandmother in Hindi), no, it’s my crayon!” My mother-in-law …
