“The norm for me personally growing up was my parents and friends knowing my girlfriend. It would be normal in a courting process for my loved ones to get close to them. Koreans traditionally don’t meet the prospective in legislation until a meeting for the families, there they basically say ‘ I would like to marry this person’ as well as the families agree or disagree. That is extremely different from how I grew up. I’d to ask Jessica’s dad to marry her only after meeting him a times that are few which was embarrassing, nonetheless it worked out.” Cody claims.
“we like to think it absolutely was easier than you think to assimilate into Cody’s family members, nothing was terribly unknown if you ask me. However in bringing Cody to my loved ones, whether it absolutely was my instant household or my extended family members, as being a very first generation Korean United states and never having any cousins or siblings engaged and getting married before me things had been entirely foreign. We discovered what’s old-fashioned and unconventional.” Jessica adds. “We got hitched in Cuba and did things differently. In going right on through things with Cody, I really discovered that which was normal and never in my own culture that is very own.