Couple marries four times - the reason will surprise you

Dubai - Faiz is a Muslim and Ankita a practicing Hindu

Inter-religious marriages are one of the most sensitive subjects in countries like India and Pakistan. However, many couples break the bounds of the society to spend their lives together.
Faiz and Ankita is one such couple who fought hard times to get married despite opposition from the family. What makes the story more interestingly is the fact that Faiz married Ankita four times, in different ways. They married in temple, court, on beach and performed Nikah.

 Faiz is a Muslim and Ankita a practicing Hindu.  Both had met in their college in India.
"One of the biggest concerns that my folks had on marrying a Muslim was the fact that they are allowed to get married 4 times. As you will read ahead, you will see that God took care of that concern automatically - we married 4 times," Ankita wrote on her blog.

"It has been 2 years of trying to convince Papa, and as a last resort, we decide it is time. Time to make this test series an action packed 20-20 match. The boyfriend, unannounced rings my doorbell, taking my Papa completely by surprise. My mom turned red, she did not know whether to make 'chai' or run inside the room and burst out crying. Papa, very calmly, went inside, changed out of his home clothes into something more formal. I was terrified, but knew that we could not have postponed this further."

Her blog continues, "Then there was a long monologue by my boyfriend - explaining how he will not convert my religion or change my name or make me eat non-veg or make me follow his culture or make me wear a burkha or marry anyone else or whatever other doubts my parents expressed in the last 2 years. He ended by saying he will pamper me as much as my Papa did as he knew that he could not pamper me more! At this point in time, any Bollywood movie would have shown a teary eyed Dad get up from the sofa and hug the hero, but that did not happen in my story. My Dad asked my boyfriend to leave (respectfully so), promising him that he will never ever be part of this marriage or our lives if we decided to live it together. I was crying of course, but not because I had to choose. I had made my choice 2 years back already when I had told my parents. I was crying because I had somehow wished to magically change my Dad's 50 years of thinking in that one meeting, but we failed. We however realised that it was time to step on the peddle and accelerate our lives out of this everyday emotional drama that had engulfed us all."

The couple finally married on February 18, 2015.
"It has been 2 years since this spectacular time, and by God's grace, both our families have happily accepted our union."

• India