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Have you talked to Fi about this?
Does he want to get married in a mosque?
Have you considered having your weddings on two seperate days?
For example, (if you are having part of it in a mosque) do one day where you are married in the mosque and a small dinner at his parents place (not sure if that is an option) or at a restaurant.
Then having the destination part afterwards or a more casual drinks included type setting on another day.
(hope that made sense)
Well I'm not sure if a destination wedding would solve the "alcohol or not" issue. Even if you go to a resort, they will have a closed off area for your wedding reception. It will be seperate from any public areas where there might be a bar that can't be removed or something. And since your wedding is in a special area designated only for your wedding your FILs might wonder why there is alcohol there if you didn't request it. They might even ask them to stop serving in that area since its only for your wedding guests and that could come as an unpleasant suprise for you and your other guest if it somehting like there were to come up the day of. One suggestion is for you to serve alcohol without having an opened bar anywhere in your reception area and only have waitors bring alcoholic drinks in for your guests from somewhere else in the resort and if your FILs ask about it just tell them that you can't stop your guests from requesting the waitor to bring them drinks.
Thanks for both of your responses. Yes, my FI and I have talked about this -probably more than he's happy about already :-) and we will definitely be married by an imam before we leave. Exactly how that's going to go and how big of a party that is going to be is yet to be determined.
USAandKSA, you are right on about the resort. I've talked to a few people and am trying to decide on how i think that it will work. Its definitely something that I need to get his family's opinion on.
We may have found a priest and an imam that would be willing to do our ceremony together at the same time here in the states and if that is the case, i will probably choose to get married at home rather than have a destination wedding. Does anyone have any experience with a dual ceremony?
Check the interfaith section of the boards... there are lots of people with experience there.
It all depends on how strict/religous/traditional is your FI's family. I'm muslim and there is NO way alcohol will be allowed at my parents (or my house). Some of my husband's exteneded family drinks quite openly.
Also Muslim (sunni cest) ceremonies are VERY short, very small percentage of Muslims actually do it in the mosque, but it is becoming more common with having a more personal seperate ceremony as oppose to doing the religious ceremony with the reception.
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Hi there, just got engaged and this is my first post! I've always dreamed of getting married at the beach and so we are thinking about a DW for 30-40 people - our friends and both of our families. An all-inclusive tropical resort sounds amazing to me, cost-effective and not as many "details" to worry about.
My FI is muslim and I'm catholic, so if we get married at home, we can't have alcohol at our wedding, out of respect for his family. However, our friends really do like to party!
I'm thinking that at an all-inclusive resort those who want to drink will and those who don't, won't - and it will be out of our hands. Anyone have any experience with this? Will both groups be able to get along without anyone getting offended?
Otherwise, we've thought about having a morning wedding here in the city and then renting out a bar for a late-night party with our friends.
Thanks for your thoughts!!