I loved this article by Elna Baker, author of The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. It was published in O magazine in July 2011.
A Mormon and a Muslim walk into a wedding . . .
Have you been to a cross-cultural wedding?
A Mormon/Muslim wedding
– July 24, 2011Posted in: Snippets
I read the Halloween Singles Dance book this week, after I’d seen it here. There are some very funny bits! But it is not a book you’ll probably find at Deseret Book :) (She makes apologies for her language, etc in the forward)
I’ve tried to find out which side of the fence she finally decided on, but I guess I’m not looking in the right spot–or maybe I just don’t really want to know. I do know it’s hard to try to have one foot in and one foot out.
As to your question, my husband isn’t LDS, and while a Mormon/lapsed Episcopalian wedding doesn’t have quite the same ring, for much of how we live our lives day in/day out, we are definitely from two different cultures.
Most people are curious by nature. If you wisely and timely open the door for them they will try to peek inside even though they do not have any desire to go in. The rest is up to you. When I showed the former words to my daughter she said I was describing women!