The Couples

Pooja and Gautam Patankar

Meera and Adip Desai

Alka Tripathy and Tom Lang

In Houston’s large Indian community, there is much opportunity to marry within the group — either through arranged or via so-called “love” matches. However, in weddings involving two partners of Indian descent, it can still be complicated by different ethnicities or cultural regions. Weddings that entail mixed pairing of an Indian with a Western partner, the cultural calculus may be even more convoluted. In Houston, this is common enough that there are wedding planners who specialize in bridging these differences between couples and families and traditions.