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INDIANA, U.S.A., July 8, 2004: When a groom from Indiana and a bride from India decided to get married, ABC News convinced the couple to have their wedding aired on TV. So in October 2003, Tim Searight and Rupa Goswami celebrated their Hindu-Christian ceremony under the watchful eye of TV viewers. The TV crew assured Goswami that they would be as unobtrusive as possible and after the producer, Martha Spanniger, met with her parents Goswami agreed to the arrangement. The article says, “It took 10 months to plan the October wedding, a mix of Madras meets Muncie (a town in Indiana). Goswami’s family is from Bengal, India; Searight’s family is from Indiana. Although ABC was looking for some antagonism between the families, neither family objected to a dual ceremony.” Tim Searight sums up the experience, “Rupa and I are from two different religions, and I don’t think that either one of us is going to convert to the other’s. One thing that I hope comes across in the TV special is that two people from two different religions can coexist very easily.”

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