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Is that the bride?? I like her saree and hte decoratinos are just beautiful!
I think so...
I love the haveli idea for the mehndi...it looks like it turned out beautifully.
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i just love the saree.... i wish i knew where she got it from!!
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The New York Times featured a Pakistani wedding in Miami this week…you can read the story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/fashion/weddings/13vows.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=hashim+mian&oref=slogin
Is it just me, or do nikkah ceremonies look super awkward and silly when you try to westernize them completely and have the bride and groom march down to the maulvi’s ‘alter’?
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that pink sari is just gorgeous!
that pic of the bridesmaids, the one in the forefront is SO not happy 
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^agreed pink sari looks amazing nd as for the bridesmaid hehehe
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Shabash!! Mashallah. The perfect American Muslims. A perfect love story. :chai:
I like the sarees here.
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question: why do they get a page length article dedicated to their wedding? they most certainly are not the first couple who are children of migrants and get wed in the west.
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^ its part of their weddings and celebrations section... which i read on and off :) so they always showcase one wedding out of all of the ones posted. this is the first south asian one that i've seen so i guess they've written it up. usually its mostly jewish couples.
edited to say: what a dumb, horribly written article!!! yeesh. you'd think they would have only mentioned the positive aspect of their relationship/culture so the majority of readers wouldn't think pakistani's are weird.
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oh sara, hon, it was just a thought 
i still love my wedding dress… i think its the prettiest thing i’ll ever own…and its extra-special because of the memories too. i’m sure you feel super special about your dress too, no matter how many improvements you can think of making to it! hugs
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beautiful! she wears the sari so gracefully
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Oh, every time i see it in person, i just fall in love with it all over again 
but then i think of alll the possibilities.. but i kinda do that with everything. so whatever lol
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Is it just me, or do nikkah ceremonies look super awkward and silly when you try to westernize them completely and have the bride and groom march down to the maulvi's 'alter'?
i think its cute if they walk down the aisle, but maybe they could sit down on either side of the qazi or something? i always envision nikah's being seated affairs for some reason :p
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i would like my nikkah to be traditional :)
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^ its part of their weddings and celebrations section... which i read on and off :) so they always showcase one wedding out of all of the ones posted. this is the first south asian one that i've seen so i guess they've written it up. usually its mostly jewish couples.
edited to say: what a dumb, horribly written article!!! yeesh. you'd think they would have only mentioned the positive aspect of their relationship/culture so the majority of readers wouldn't think pakistani's are weird.
exactly @ last para. i mean i get that ppl write stories for weddings and stuff but what's told in the article is just so dumb!
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AS first-generation Pakistani-Americans, Hashim Mian and Sabeen Ali moved easily between the cultures. Both read the Koran and visited relatives in Karachi and conversed in Urdu at home. They also drank beer, liked to party and fell in love without their parents knowing about it.
^sounds like the writer was making fun of the pakistani muslim culture.
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^ Nah... more like... ah... nvm, its just pathetic.
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^yes it does sound like the writer's rediculing
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its not so much the writing tha tbothers me as much as the content. :(