Hello everyone,
I'm new to this board, just getting started planning my wedding, and in need of some ideas for a cross-cultural wedding. Although my fiance is interested in helping plan in general, whenever I ask him about how "Mexican" of a wedding he would like (he was born and raised there, I'm from the U.S. and not of Mexican descent) he says it is up to me and hasn't really offered any ideas on what he would like to incorporate. (This could be partially out of ignorance--although we went to five weddings there this year, he had never been to one before that.) I would like to incorporate some Mexican traditions into our wedding in recognition of his family but I am having trouble deciding what because we do not plan on getting married in a church which makes all the traditions I can think of (flowers for la virgen, the lasso, even the arras) out of place.
I would be curious to know what others think about incorporating these or other traditions into civil weddings in the U.S.
Thanks!
Heidi