Hindu/catholic interfaith/fusion wedding help

I don’t see why you cannot fuse the two. Perhaps find a planner and officiant that you are comfortable with and see what ideas they have. Check the IGs of the planners to see what they’ve done in the past as well as those of other people in general for more ideas. Maybe even google some fusion weddings. This is happening more and more with people mixing more often with each other. With people using lofts and banquets halls and such, you can totally build your own wedding. I’m just now figuring out food for our different backgrounds. Happy hunting!

My only concern is that typically, a catholic wedding (if that's what your FH wants) can only be done in a Catholic Church by a Catholic priest. You can get approval to have outside of the church, but I am not exactly sure how common that is. I think your best option is to do what PP said and find an officiant who is willing to do both. If you can find someone, I think that is such an awesome idea!

I think you need to decide if you want an actual Catholic ceremony or a Christian/Hindu ceremony. From my understanding, a Catholic ceremony can only be performed in a Catholic Church by a priest, and if you want to be married in the eyes of the Catholic Church, you need to be married in a Catholic ceremony. I doubt that the typical Catholic priest would allow elements of a Hindu ceremony (but there are lots of non typical priests). However, a lot of of Christian denominations have different beliefs, so if you want elements of both faiths, I would look for a Unitarian Universalist (UU) officiant or someone with a similar faith background. The UU church tends to have a wide understanding of faith and beliefs. It sounds like you're Hindu and your FS is Catholic, so I would discuss with FS the type of ceremony desired.

Hi Sonal! I have seen many multi-religion weddings through the website done! I would definitely reach out to a wedding planner that has experience in planning two separate ceremonies for different religions! They may be able to help you find vendors for both ceremonies! I would recommend having one ceremony Friday, one Saturday with a reception to follow. I found a great article that goes into some tips on how to plan these types of weddings!

11 Tips to Planning a Multi-cultural wedding

Hinduism and Catholicism are two very different religions with two very different wedding cultures. It might be possible to have an interfaith wedding will these two religions, but it will be hard. They're not very lenient when it comes to the sacrament of marriage. Good luck

My Fiance and me are doing two ceremonies..according to the hindu traditions we are having the wedding on an auspicious day picked by hindu priest at the temple. We are having catholic ceremony on sat at a church followed by reception