In the beginning.

I am Iranian (well, born and bred in England with Iranian parents). My fiance is English. I have a big family and extended family. My fiance has a tiny family. I want a vintage English country garden wedding. With a full on, traditional Persian* twist.

I knew as soon as we got engaged (ha, who am I kidding, I knew well before we got engaged!) that I wanted a big fat culture clash of a wedding. I am too English to have a full on Persian wedding and I am too Iranian to have a full on English wedding. 

I started to do research and all I could find on the numerous big wedding blogs were lots of lots of beautiful traditional/modern/vintage/stylish/eclectic British weddings. I was surprised by how few blog posts there were of mixed culture weddings or even just weddings of other cultures. I know there is already significant coverage of Asian/Jewish weddings on specialist sites but it would be nice if they were covered on the mainstream blogs as well. I love learning about different wedding traditions and I love going to them too! It makes you realise we are not all that different.

Anyways, I was searching for ideas for my Persian/English mashup and only came across a handful of blogs (this one being the most exciting: http://blog.katylunsford.com/2012/12/19/ladan-marvin-vietnamese-tea-ceremony/ - how cool does a Persian/Vietnamese wedding sound???) So, I decided to start a blog about my own wedding. I hope to cover things like food, ceremony, decorations, music and anything else I can think of as the planning goes on. 

Some of the basics about the big day: 

• We are getting married in May 2015. I would do it May 2014 if I could but we just don't have the money sadly.   
• Venue is somewhere in Surrey. More details to be revealed. 
• We are having two ceremonies - Civil and Persian :-)
• Food will be Persian

I will also share links for any other mixed culture weddings I can find. I would recommend checking out the link above.

Watch this space and get in touch if you have any ideas or recommendations! 

*I get confused between the whole Persian/Iranian label so I am calling myself/my family Iranian (because it is our ethnicity) and labelling all the weddings things as Persian because it is more a cultural thing. Probably doesn't make sense and I will forget to stick to this in later posts but just bear with, alright?