{"id":9701,"date":"2010-10-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/28\/mixed-marriage-cerimonies-blend-religious-traditions\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:00:00","slug":"mixed-marriage-cerimonies-blend-religious-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/28\/mixed-marriage-cerimonies-blend-religious-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Marriage Cerimonies Blend Religious Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2010-10-08\/news\/ct-x-w-1008-rel-wedding-traditions-20101008_1_interfaith-marriages-religious-traditions-couples\">articles.chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO, USA, October 08, 2010: Interfaith marriages on the rise, giving brides and grooms a head start on compromising.<\/p>\n<p>When Amy Patel, who was raised Catholic, married Mitul Patel, a Hindu, in June, they blended religious traditions from both families. Thanks to a wedding planner, a secular venue and abundant advice from relatives, they pulled it off, she said. &#8220;Everyone was so worried about offending everyone else,&#8221; said Amy Patel, of Aurora. &#8220;But in the end, everyone had fun and learned a lot about another culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Patels are among the 27 percent of brides and bridegrooms who marry outside their faith, said the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life. If you include couples of different Protestant denominations, the number rises to 37 percent. The percentage of interfaith marriages grows annually, said the University of Chicago&#8217;s National Opinion Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>Hindus, Mormons and Catholics are least likely to marry outside of their faiths, said the Pew Forum. The unaffiliated, Protestants and Buddhists are most likely.<\/p>\n<p>For the Patels, combining traditions meant four days of Hindu rituals, including the women getting henna tattoos, followed by an &#8220;American&#8221; ceremony, said Amy Patel. The biggest complication, she said, was the clothing. &#8220;We wore different outfits for the Indian part and the American part, so we had to get rooms for everyone to change,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: articles.chicagotribune.com CHICAGO, USA, October 08, 2010: Interfaith marriages on the rise, giving brides and grooms a head start on,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}