Well a white dress does not mean anything. Most muslim girls wear white wedding dresses like Arabs, Turks, Persians and Afghans, so I don’t think the color of a dress makes much difference.
And Matsui you are right, its funny how these people here makes marrying into another culture a BIG ISSUE but when they marry into another religion its not a big deal. They are truely messed up indeed 
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Well a white dress does not mean anything. Most muslim girls wear white wedding dresses like Arabs, Turks, Persians and Afghans, so I don't think the color of a dress makes much difference.
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I was trying to emphasize that she got married in a Church. That's a little insulting in my opinion to her own faith. Oh well. That's just my humble opinion.
I am an Indian Muslim married to a Hindu Brahmin girl :). Unlike me She is pretty religious and continues to be a Hindu Brahmin. We have been married for more than 5 years and we have a 6 months old.
It's ironic that She is a Hindu Brahimn and a non-vegetarian and I am a pure veg. :)
One of my dads friends married a Greek woman, who converted to Islam. They have 3 beautiful daughters, all of them can speak, Urdu, Punjabi, French, English and Greek fluently. They wear shalwar kameez, and are moderately religious.
To add to the list, I just discovered that one of the (white male) lawyers I work for is marrying a sikh girl in the summer. They've been dating for 10 years and are going to have a traditional punjabi wedding.
Actually, they are having the civil wedding the day before and the punjabi wedding after. He is very excited about the upcoming sangeet, mendhi, bharaat, etc. :)
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I am an Indian Muslim married to a Hindu Brahmin girl :). Unlike me She is pretty religious and continues to be a Hindu Brahmin. We have been married for more than 5 years and we have a 6 months old.
It's ironic that She is a Hindu Brahimn and a non-vegetarian and I am a pure veg. :)
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is your real name syed? i know a a muslim married to brhamin girl.
My uncle's married to a british woman, she's catholic.. theyve got a son, he's my first cousin, i havent met him, and he's married to a scottish woman. I've met my auntie, she's a good person.
i only want to marry a shia muslim girl..i hope she is a practicing muslim as well
If you have to change your belief to accomodate your spouses, then your new belief is questionable. Changing religions is a personal and spiritual matter. Not something you do for the sake of pleasing someone.
Kids of mixed religious background will be more tolerant, more worldly and more knowledgeable....
Is he a vegetarian too ??
Matsui - :k:
exactly MAtsui..pretty sad how someone has to convert when marriage is a remote possiblilty, but it didnt matter when the two were dating..nobody has the right to ask someone to convert or even impose that..if you cant accept them for who they are..then bounce..
One Pakistani Muslim girl I know married a Jewish banker who did not change his religion and they are quite happy. Another married a Hindian ( 
) who did not change religions either. They seem OK too.
I know many couples like these, who are happily married and are living their lives without any difficulties whatsoever. My friend's sister is a hindu and she married a muslim guy whom she was dating past 4 years.
She converted to Islam, but that was for the sake of the guy's parents. Else they both did not give a damn to wht faith either one of them was going to follow after their marriage.
Here's my prediction for the future. With the globe shrinking, it will be very common for inter-faith inter-racial marriages, and the ones that marry their own kind will be a minority by the year 2052. Because of my association with Greek Orthodox Church, I know for fact, (and the priest who officiated at my wife's cousin marriage told me so) that over 50% of marriages that he officiates at his church are between inter-faith couples. The ratio is much higher in reformed Synagogues and some other churches. Can't say about the rest of the world, but inter-racial marriages are on the rise in the US. What surprises me however is that Pakistanis have been living in the Persian Gulf since the 60s (roughly for about the same time as they have been in the UK), but you see a lot of inter-racial British Pakistani couples but not a single Pakistani Arab interracial couples (I have heard of only a very few, have yet to see one - actually I have seen one Kuwaiti married to a Pakistani). I know a few Saudi guys married to white women, but have yet to see a Shiekh with a Punjabi Mutyar or a Sikh with a Saudi girl. Imagine the choices of names: Shikeh Banta Singh Al-Majboori ibne Khalifa al Sultan wal Mardudi.
^ Love knows no religion man. God would be happy if you married someone based omn love rather than which book you read
I tried hard to stop it man. It didn’t work. The Jewish investment banker was raking in more in his annual bonus than most desi guys earn in 5 years. And he is supposedly very good looking and kind to her. All his friends from the synagogue are very nice to her too.
She couldn’t resist, even when I informed her he is Jewish and related to the devil. 
thanks everyone for keeping this thread civilized.
interesting answers.
asif k : just one question, will it bother u if ur daughter/son follow their mom's relegion?
:)
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asif k : just one question, will it bother u if ur daughter/son follow their mom's relegion?
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NO.
Asif, I am assuming you guys do a entire gamut of religious and cultural hoildays. How terribly exciting....has it ever been an issue with family and stuff? I am just curious. My wife is American adn we celebrate christmas and easter with the same rigor as the hindu holidays. Plus I find that there are aspects of christianity that I can embrace in search of spirituality and she can do the same with hinduism.
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NO.
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thank u :) .