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Just wanted to see if we have many Hispanic brides in the Hive! While I am not Hispanic, Mr. H is and we will be incorporating many of his traditions into the wedding, specifically the ceremony. I'd love to hear from you all and exchange ideas, vendors, etc.!
I've been reading around Weddingbee for the past couple of weeks and am finally deciding to delurk. Anyway, I'm Latina and, like Hydrangea, am also interested if there are other Latina brides out there, especially others in interracial relationships like me. So far, we're thinking of incorporating Hispanic touches in the ceremony, readings in Spanish and possibly the lasso. Hope to hear more from others soon!
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I'm puertorican and so is my fiance. We live in DC but will get married in PR and our wedding will be the same as every other wedding in our family, so I'm not sure if I can distinguish what's a hispanic tradition from what's not.
I'm not Latino but my fiance is. We are both Jewish and so our wedding is a Jewish wedding but I guess in a way our wedding is incorporating some traditions from his Sephardic background (Jews from Spain, Morocco, etc, are called Sephardim...altho he's Colombian, his ancestors likely came from Morocco) and I am not. We are going to try to have some traditional Latin dancing though--He taught me a little bit about how to dance to a cumbia.
Incidentally, Sherezada--my FI grew up in PR too. :) His parents still live there.
Our invitations are going to have English, Hebrew and Spanish! :) I'm excited.
I'm half, Mr. Kiwi is whole, but we didn't have a very hispanic wedding at all. Like Sherezada, we just did the same thing for our wedding as the rest of our family has, but minus the mariachi! It's funny though, out of Mr. K's brothers and sisters, both married caucasian spouses- with me being half- I'm bringing Spanish back into the family!
My fiancé is from Michigan. I was born in Tijuana, Mexico and moved here 9 years ago. So I guess that makes us a bi-racial couple! We are getting married in Greenville, SC. Obviously, my mother tongue is Spanish and his is English—so he's saying his vows to me in Spanish and I'm saying mine to him in English 
We are also incorporating the lasso (not the arras though, because I work just as hard as him, and I would feel as if I had to give him some arras as well...but that would be TOO weird 
. . . my family couldn’t handle it). Our programs will be in English and Spanish. I’m almost positive we are having a classical guitarist during the ceremony. I would also love a Mariachi during the recessional (which I probably wouldn't do if I were to be in Mexico, but I think it would be a fun thing do to celebrate my heritage). However, finding one in SC is not easy. Of course, like any good Mexican/Latin party, we have to have tons of good food. I am aware that the catering will probably be one of our biggest expenses, but I think it’s only fair. I have family traveling from Mexico, and FI’s family coming from Michigan, so it just seems wrong to only feed them only finger food and cake (which a lot of people do down here, BTW). . . I don’t even think my family knows what finger food is anyway…they would probably assume they’re appetizers and be like "when's the real food coming!?!"
Anyone else feels the same way about reception food? Another thing I'm dealing with is my mom wanting to incorporate lace or anything "puffy" into ceremony decor. She wants petals and bubbles and rice all over the place. I think she's thinking of a quinciañera!
I am 1/2 Costa Rican and 1/2 Panamanian. My H2B is of West Indian descent (St. Vincent and Trinidad). We're getting married in Costa Rica! :) We'll be having a salsa band and Afro-Latino percussionists. In addition, I want to wear a "Spanish"-looking veil. Our programs will be in English and Spanish and I'm thinking of making our wedding website Spanish/English, too!
hey girls! i'm Latina too! Fiance is Puerto Rican by way of NYC and I'm Colombian by way of California. We're getting married in CA and would love to incorporate our 2 cultures into our currently American wedding. We're looking for a Puerto Rican dancing group (in CA thats impossible!) and a Colombian dancing troupe (also impossible in CA). Also we'd LOVE and old school bolero trio (you know, old Cuban type men in guayaberas singing their love away).
WM- check your messages. I know several PR bomba troupes in CA you might be interested in!
Add another Latina to the mix! I am marrying a Gringo, my love! Our music is totally going to reflect the latin roots! We're playing spanish love songs during our cocktail hour, and tons of salsa and cumbia during the reception! The rehearsal dinner is a Fiesta theme! My caterer is an authentic Mexican cook, and we'll be serving a fabulous Taco Bar! I found the best Sarape table runner for the buffet table and mini maracas to place at each setting! I also have the paper wedding banners in tons of colors! And of course a Margarita Machine with only the best Tequila! My man loves the idea of joining a HUGE familia!
Hi another latina here, I am from Mexican roots my FI is Salvadorian, Our wedding will be in Mexico, and to the disspapointment of my grandmother and probably father(when they realize) Our wedding will not be a traditionlal Catholic Mexican wedding. We are incorporating a lot of the traditional stuff like Mariachi, food, latin music, but not the traditional church wedding. I havent had the guts to tell my Dad yet.
Hello! I'm Mexican from East L.A. and FI is originally from Mexico and we are having a very traditional Catholic ceremony here in Los Angeles. Which means we're having the lasso, arras...We are having Mariachi during the ceremony and a Mexican Trio during dinner/cocktails, but we are not serving Mexican food since we eat it everyday, we wanted to serve our family and friends with something else.
I'm not Mexican, but my fiancé is and his father and grandmother only speak Spanish. We're doing our vows in Spanish and providing Spanish translations for the English parts of the (nonreligious) ceremony in the program. His sister is making ojarascas for the reception and we'll have mariachis at the end of the night. Our rehearsal dinner will have an elegant mexican theme, with everyone wearing guayaberas and rebosas, and at the reception the buffet includes chicken fajitas with tortillas cooked fresh on the comal.
I was born in Mexico and moved to CA about 20 yrs ago. My FI is Salvadorian and moved here 23 yrs ago also. We are having a traditional wedding with Catholic church ceremony, arras, laso and other things that we havend settled on. We are not serving mexican or salvadorian food.I wouldn't have it any other way!
I am a gringa and my Fi is from Mexico. We met in Spain, so I am looking to incorporate some of my US traditions, as well as Mexican, and some Spanish. Everyone at the wedding will speak English, but I would like to incorporate some Spanish as well. Ideas? Also, I would appreciate some ideas for Mexican cultural elements. I have never been to a Mexican wedding. Muchas gracias!
Well another mexican. My FI is caucasian and I'm having a really hard time with how to incorporate both sides. I was born in San Diego, CA but my parents are both from Mexico. My FI on the other hand is from West Virginia and some of his family is coming down to CA for our wedding. I don't know how im going to handle the cultural differences like music, ceremony, i mean food is easy becasue who doesn't like mexican food. I do want to add all the traditional american culture but as well as the Mexican side, especaily since most of my family speaks Spanish and ,y FI and his family only speak english. But if anyone has ideas please help me. In addition he is also a Marine. so that's something else to deal with.
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My mother is Cuban, dad is American. I was raised with my Cuban grandparents. My fiance is from Peru but has lived in U.S.A. since he was a teenager. We are having a traditonal Catholic ceremony and will incorporate some traditions and be bi-lingual. We'll have Cuban food at rehearsal dinner (roast pork, yuca w/mojo, black beans over white rice or congri and flan for dessert) and regular gringo food (filet mingon/Shrimp) at wedding reception. Would like our signature drink to be Cuban...mojitos or daquairi ..... no domino theme or cigar rollers for us!!
Hello everyone!! My wedding is going to be August 09. I have family coming out from Ecuador-South America, where I come from. We have very nice wedding traditions there that I haven't see anywhere else. There is a sweet's table, arranged next to the wedding cake. We serve there dulce de leche desserts, turron (based on milk and almonds), dulce de guayaba (exotic fruit that has more vitamic C than any citric). Since there are multicultural people attending the party, my fiancee and I have decided to serve international food. The music will be international as well, except for a set of dancing with salsa and merengue songs. I hope everyone will enjoy the mix of cultures!
Hola ladies!
Both my fiance and I are hispanic and are trying to incorporate our culture into every aspect of our upcoming wedding. Since our ceremony is outside, we have decided to have a martini bar, and mariachis for right after the ceremony... a little mariachi flavour to go with your martini anyone?
We're having the pastor do the ceremony in both english and spanish; the dj will play a medly of both english and spanish music, to add a bit of diversity into the mix. We decided to have some sweet empanadas (Salvadorean) at the midnight sweet table. And finally, we are making little burlap sacks and filing it with Salvadorean coffee, to go with our favours.
Im not really sure how to incorporate the money dance, so if anyone has any pointers, I would be happy to hear :)
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I am Mexican & Spanish, FI is Cacusian. My family is by no means "traditional" my mom doesn't speak Spanish and my dad rarely speaks it himself. But I was curious if any other Hispanic brides are familair with "sponsorships" for their weddings? My parents, all their siblings, friends, and all other relatives got married through sponsorships (with multiple family members sponsoring specific items of the wedding.) I have asked my grandma and nobody really knows why or how this started. My FI's boss is from Monterey, and with him being a native Mexican, my FI asked if he was familar with the "sponsorship style wedding" and he said he had never heard of that.
Are any of ya'll familar with this tradition? If so, how did it originate?
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If its what I think youre saying, it is called "Padrino". Lets say, someone will be the "padrino" of your cake, or the "padrino" of your rings.. ie, they will give it to you as a gift. You ask them to be the "padrino" of soemthing, and if they agree, then they provide that 'thing' for you, on your wedding date.
Im not really too certain where this tradition orginated from, but I do know that its pretty big in some latin countries.
Sounds like a nice tradition though :)
I'm dominican!!! Woo-hoo! My fiance is from the midwest (i <3 him). We are trying to find a delicate balance right now, but it's hard. Only 9 people are coming from Wisconsin and about 150 of my family members are flying out from everywhere Buffalo, Philadelphia, Deleware, Orlando, Melbourne, Miami, and Dominican Republic. My fiance is afraid our wedding is going to be like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" where no one is on his side of the church and everyone is mine. We are having a rehearsal dinner for the wedding party and his out of town guests and then the rehearsal itself, followed by what my family calls the "Mondogo Party". The tripe party. Let me explain, we do not actually serve tripe at these parties but in DR for a wedding they would slaughter a bunch of animals for the wedding feast the day before. They would need a lot of people to help with the slaughter and to feed them, they would cook the tripe. Now that we are in the US and don't need to slaughter our own meat we still want to party. At our mondogo party we decided to hire a local Perico Ripao band that place authentic Dominican "country" music. The wedding itself will be more mixed.
MangoTango, thank you so much, as soon as I read your post I googled Padrinos, and yes your are excatly right! In fact I now remeber the "sponsors" being referred to as Padrinos.
I think its a nice tradition too, and we might be doing it on my side of the family (esp since its what they are used to doing & like to do) but not with my FI's side. I just love knowing the true tradation about how my family started getting married in this manner. Thanks again!
We had madrinas and padrinos at our wedding, but only on a very symbolic level -- we had people special to us buy and present: Bible, arras (coins), lazo and wedding rings. I know other people have padrinos and madrinas for cake, alcohol, invitations, etc. but that would have been too awkward to us personally. With the more meaningful items it is easier to explain to people, and then they actually have a part in the wedding, where they come up and hand you the Bible, rings, whatever.
The tradition of Padrinos is a very loving gesture. These are people that love you and want to make your day special without it hitting your pocket as much. I had a friend who's various aunts and uncles sponsered parts of her wedding. One bought the cake, someone else paid for the liquor at the reception, another her dress. She honored them by giving them roles during the mass and by giving them flowers in the form of corsages/boutenierres for those people.
Hello Ladies,
Well I am BORICUA (Puerto Rican) and the Mister is as well. Everything that we are doing in the wedding is very much influenced by our families traditions and also our ethnicity. My FH picked our Padrinos only because I my family to many of my Titi's (aunts) were calling dibs on being the Madrina. So his Titi and Tio from PR are our Padrinos and they are coming from PR. Our DJ will pretty much play spanish music and I am still up in the air about a band. The DJ has a band that plays salsa merengue and bachata. But my parents are paying for that so its up to them if they feel like splurging
Is anyone having capias at their reception?
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I'm mexican marrying a mexican! Well we're both 2nd generation. And we're having a catholic ceremony with padrinos for the 'arras', 'laso', 'cojines', 'ramo' for the Virgen Mary, and the 'biblia y rosario'. I'm also going to be doing bilingual programs. Does anyone have a good template? We aren't having any for invites, alcohol, or anything else, which is super out of the ordinary for my family. I'm having trouble coming up with some ideas as far as an RSVP. It's cliche but Mexicans hardly ever RSVP... what else have ya'll come up with? Anything would help, I'm stuck.
I am Puerto Rican getting married to my gringo in PA. My family is half the guest list while our friends are about 40% and his family the other 10%. Music will be the biggest part with lots of Spanish music playing throughout the evening. I wish I could have incorporated more Spanish food but his family is pretty boring with food. I'd like to incorporate a few more traditions but detest capias lol! I made my mom promise she wouldn't make them.she is keeping a tradition that my abuela always did my making the flower girl basket and a headpiece of ribbon and flowers for the flower girl as well as the pillow for the ring bearer. Not sure if that is something all Latinos do but something my abuela did and he mother and so on :)
Hey ladies - I'm Puerto Rican and my fiance is Russian. We are having a Jewish/Christian wedding in Long Island in October. We are having a lot of Jewish traditions in the ceremony: chuppah and breaking the glass, etc and we are lighting a unity candle/ or pouring sand in a glass to honor my Christian heritage. Our DJ is playing latin and American music and we are thinking of getting a calypso band since our wedding is on the beach. Maybe I'll switch to Mariachi now after reading the posts.
Also for our cocktail hour, we are doing a Russian themed station and Latin themed station.
I would be interested in hearing if there are any Latino traditions I can incorporate into the ceremony. I'm what they call a NYRican so looking for some education on some customary traditions.
Also I need a hair dresser that can work with these curls and a makeup artist.
How fun!
I am Latina (but born in the states) my fiance is Irish/American. He's my white boy. We are going to Salsa classes before the wedding.
=)
Kix
hi ladies! i'm mexican and marrying a mexican! We're both baptists, but here many catholic traditions are done in my church, like the 'lazo, 'arras', 'cojines', 'Biblia'!
we're having 'padrinos' for rings, cake, music, and honeymoon! we're pretty lucky to have such great friends that offered to helps us!
lovemybb, have you check out Miss Hydrangea programs? i think they were bilingual, also her invites! i don't live in the US so i cannot offer much help on some stuff like RSVP (my family doesn't do it, they just show up hahaha).
congratulations to all you girls and enjoy your wedding day! mine is just 24 days away! can't wait!
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Hey Ladies!!
I am Puerto Rican and my FI is my gringo (German, Jewish, Scottish, and Irish). Our wedding will be in my hometown of Bethlehem, PA. Since my FI's family is all over the country and my family mostly lives in Bethlehem it was just easier to keep the 200+ guests there. My FI absolutely loves the Puerto Rican culture. Would you believe me when I say that he can speak and dance spanish ?? Unfortunately, we will not be having PR food as the hall provides their own food. We will have our DJ play plenty of Salsa, Merengue and Bachata all night long. Now that is what I look forward to!
Hello,
Im Mexican and FH is Black. We are getting married in the South (mississippi to be exact) We live in California but his family is out there. Well I do want to incorporate some of my heritage but its really difficult to find it in the south. Im thinking about doing it with the music. If possible have some folkorico dancers(Only if they are outhere). Everything is will be from his heritage. Im catholic but he is christian. We will have the christian ceremony. Some of my family members will be going but I think it will be only about 30 people or so.
Wow!! It's so cool to see some Latinas marrying outside of their race!! I'm Mexican marrying a gringo and it's been fun so far. The only "big shocker" was that my parents were not going to pay for the wedding like the typical American weddings are. But I also want to incorporate some Mexican traditions into our wedding like the lasso. Besides the lasso, food, and musica, I really don't know what else to incorporate. We're also thinking of padrinos so we'll see who wants to help! I'm excited!!
Well, I'm the gringa marrying a Peruvian! :) His family is coming to Canada for the wedding and doesn't speak any English, mine doesn't speak Spanish so it should be interesting! We're not really incorporating any specific traditions into the Catholic ceremony, but we may say our vows in both languages.
Hello there... I'm Mexican and I'm marrying a Guatemalan! So, I am definately a Latina bride!!
I am Mexican and FI is Guatemalan and White. I am still trying to sell him on the Lasso and Arras (I like the tradition of the arras and the idea of having a family heirloom). FI was raised "white" and by that I mean with no connection to his guatemalan side (which I think is sad...his mother came from there when she was a teen...FFIL's family didnt want FI and FSIL to learn any spanish and much of the culture was not passed on). FI now knows a ton of Spanish and spoke to his Grandmother for the first time about a year ago! :) Okay enough of that :) FI is excited about the "loud" tradiditons lol we are having Mariachi's and my Ballet Folklorico group will be performing (I seriously thought he would object to these and go for the arras!) I was wrong :) Neither of us feel comfortable having madrinas and padrinos sponsor items for the wedding.
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