Interracial marriage, incorporating your own culture with your other half?

Well we are having a traditional Nigerian wedding a week before my actual legal wedding. Me and my FH will be in Nigerian clothes and doing all the steps for a Igbo wedding dowry and all.

Also, when we have kids they will have an Igbo name as well as a "english name" I only have nigerian names and though no one gets it right It is a huge source of identity and pride for me. And I'm often told how beautiful and interesting my name is

We're having a Chinese tea ceremony too but it'll be the week before the wedding and there will be a huge party after. My FH and his GM will be presenting my parents with a dowry. As for my Irish heritage, I don't think we will be doing anything specifically to honor that.

Champagne, what about the Irish blessings or a handfasting?

I want to, if I do, it'll be a mix of African American, Irish and German incorporations into the wedding. I'm not sure about German wedding traditions, but I am familiar a little bit with African American and Irish wedding traditions. Like jumping the broom, and as Nancy T. said, handfasting.

I wanted to have a chinese tea ceremony but my fiance said his brother and sister who live in china didnt do that for their wedding and it isnt common to do, i guess at least the province he is from? so were just going to put chinese and english on the programs.

We are going to have a lot of Lebanese music and probably Lebanese food at the rehearsal dinner. I also want to get henna on my hands.

I love the handfastings; they're beautiful visually, interesting, and almost no one has seen them.

I know this post was from a few weeks ago, but here are some pictures from our Tea Ceremony.