My husband and I got married 19 years ago, one year after we graduated high school. 🥰 We got married at the courthouse because it was the cheapest option, and we went out to eat with friends and family afterwards. The people closest to us were very supportive, despite how young (and broke) we were. 😄 But random people who we don't even know would give us their unsolicited opinion. We went to the mall on our wedding day in my dress and his tux to get our pictures taken at Sears. A woman passed us saying "Stupid guy, stupid girl." 🙄 Thankfully we didn't let it get to us, we were determined to make our marriage work and we've been happy and in love all these years. My advice would be to go on date nights regularly, at least once a month. It's so good for staying close and reconnecting when life wants to distract us. Lastly, most important to us- we are Christians and really believe that having faith and being accountable to God has been the key to our success. I love learning about your faith and seeing you two so dedicated to God. May Allah continue to bless you and your family, thank you for listening to my story! 🙏🏽❤️

@MustafaKhan-gl7dc

Жыл бұрын

Nice to listen ur story sister

@sana5762

Жыл бұрын

Loved your story! Thanks for sharing ♥️

@malar5230

Жыл бұрын

❤️

@monsuratabiola8599

Жыл бұрын

Wow... I was thinking to do the same thing by next month take a nice pictures go for dinner with our friends and that it... Just to make things easier for the husband to be 😙😙

@LizzieLizzieLizzieLizzie

11 ай бұрын

Belinda, I think your story is lovely and is pretty much what we are considering doing ourselves. If there is love and no pressure, it sounds PERFECT to me ❤❤ God bless both of you.

Thanks for being vulnerable enough to talk about this. I loved my wedding, but I look back and wish we would have done things differently, too. I think it's normal! My biggest regret is not getting a better photographer. I've also been married for nine years too and I'm thinking about doing an anniversary photo shoot for our tenth anniversary to get some really nice photos.

@SalehFamily

Жыл бұрын

Yessss! Do the anniversary photos. It’ll be so worth it!

@patriciajackson346

Жыл бұрын

Same here! Next June will be 10 years for us. Planning on dressing up again (possibly in my dress) and dressing up the kids to capture some great photos!

@diaaashah3240

Жыл бұрын

@@SalehFamily hi aoa

@diaaashah3240

Жыл бұрын

@@SalehFamily sis aap ka whatsap no mil sagta hy

@shamimasaleh6335

Жыл бұрын

Photography is not allowed in Islam. U will be asked to bring it to life on the day of judgement. No pictures or images of animate beings are allowed. Keep the memories in your heart. This life is short. The hereafter is forever. Everyone sins differently. Plz pray for my weaknesses.

I got married at the court house and we invited family and friends to hang out in the gulf of Mexico for the weekend with us. Best wedding decision we made.

You done the right thing Bruv no free mixing no music. Im a revert who was brought up around music and free mixing terrible .

I looked into hello fresh but it's $111 for 3 meals for a family of four. That's no leftovers to take for lunch. I can make three meals for $60 or less and have more food for leftovers. Thanks for sharing so much information about your culture. I enjoy learning it.

If you are happily married then nothing else matters.These regrets are nothing in front of the blessings given by God to you. So be grateful to God as always you do 🙂

You both did the right thing 👍Do not regret it. Allah has put Barakah in everything you do and in your marriage. Do not doubt yourself. It’s always best to be on the safe side and follow our Deen the best way we can.

If anyone Wondering A typical Pakistani wedding would comprise of four days Day 1: "Mayoon" the day bride wears yellow and everybody applies yellow ubtan and basically all the dances and everything. Day 2: "Mehndi" The Henna day. Same everything but with henna basically cousin dances, food and gossip for aunties Now a days mostly people combine these both days into one. Day 3: "Baraat" literally means "the groom's party" this is the real wedding ceremony. "Nikah" - basically Saying I do - would happen and Bride's side would arrange feast. Day 4: "Valima" The Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad and basically a feast from Groom's side. Purely Islamic requirement out of this all is just Nikah. And Valima if u wanna do it. Rest everything is cultural not religious.

I can 100% agree with the photographer! We also had a new photographer shoot our wedding and, although she did an amazing job for her first wedding, I wish now, especially with how much our girls love looking through wedding photographs, that we had spent a bit more to get an experienced photographer. I never really cared a bunch about it until our daughters started wanting to look through our wedding photo book a few times a month. They just love doing it. So yes, definitely agree!

You should NEVER regret something you did for the sake of Allah, even if you now follow different opinions. At that time you felt that was the right thing to do & I'm sure Allah SWT rewarded you a lot in your life.

@rageemahcassiem1582

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@sorgaalsmil2419

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@LizzieLizzieLizzieLizzie

11 ай бұрын

So so true. Look at their beautiful family. They have been rewarded in abundance and it's so lovely to see ❤

I agree. Photos are important because later, it is all you will have. I was married 37 years ago, and I regret not making sure the photographer got a photo of my husband's grandmother, who died not long after our wedding. Spending on the dress, the decor, the meal etc., should be modest, unless you truly won't miss the money later. No couple should go into debt at the beginning of their marriage. Simple can be elegant and special. Decades later, you won't remember the decor or the menu, but you will want to see the photos of the people you love, for sure. Save your money for the life you will be living together!

I too have regrets about my wedding 30 years ago!!! I didn’t know most of the people at it, they were my parents and parents in laws friends. I would have just preferred a tiny intimate wedding but I had the wedding that my parents wanted. But when I look back what’s more important than the wedding is the marriage and that has been a good one. It is the same for you, you may have wedding regrets but you have a good marriage ❤️

@Catwoman8100

Жыл бұрын

Aaaw I’m sorry to hear that you guys didn’t enjoy your wedding …stay blessed!

I enjoy watching your “realness “ and kindness , it’s inspiring thank you

Thank you for sharing this intimate story. As a Catholic person, it's refreshing to see the other religions are open to person interpretation too. I feel like we tend to do things , traditions if you will just because that's how it was always done but no "rules" that govern it.

@ThJ70

Жыл бұрын

Married 30yrs this year wish we had better photos

@lisapatterson9376

11 ай бұрын

We've been married 30 years next month and I also wish we'd done better photos

I mean this in the nicest way possible-you two are such a cute couple! Some if your videos are playful and funny while others are serious. This us just how life is and I know I am not alone in being thankful for what you do. I have been married for well over 30 years, and while there are a couple things we might have done differently, or that circumstances forced upon us, still it was a great and holy time. My familiarity with Muslims stems from my time in the UAE, so the perspective of the traditions in Pakistan was enlightening and very interesting. BTW, regarding photography, the photo by the lake was beautiful. Your dress was exquisite and his outfit reminded me of the military uniform I wore at my wedding. Thank you for sharing, and God bless you and your family.

I truly admire the love that you two show for each other. I can see that because the way you two look at each other and show how comfortable you two are in your marriage is a beautiful thing to see. You guys waited to get married to each other without doing anything haram and that is very inspiring. I hope to have a similar marriage to yours. I lowkey envy the love that you two have for each other. You guys love each other for the sake of Allah and that is beautiful love

We don't have any. We started planning this huge wedding. My mother then emailed me a 200+ person guest list just for my side of the family. At this point it wasn't going to be a sit down and the cost was that of a new car. I looked at my fiancé (now husband) & told him I didn't want to get married at this point. I canceled everything &got all of our money back. We decided to go on a cruise and get married on the ship in the Caribbean. It was his mom and dad, my mom and brother (dad is passed), each of our best friends and their spouses and that was it. It was great. Most of us were living in Minnesota US at the time. So we got married, had our honeymoon and everyone got a vacation out of it as well. Photographer came included with wedding package on the ship and we paid a lot less money and I was a lot less stressed. Then we came home and had just a very small ceremony in the church to officially set things right, for us, family and everything else that I cannot put into words.

I love the blue dress, real princess! 💕 You both look amazing on all the wedding days 🤩

I don’t think I have any real regrets about my wedding day. If I HAD to pick something, I would say that I wish I had accepted more help with the plans and preparation. I wanted so badly to have my dream wedding on a very small budget that I felt I needed to take care of everything myself - from addressing all the invitations to making and delivering centerpieces for the tables to the reception hall. Yes, I had the day I had envisioned, but I also was exhausted by the time that day came! It was almost a relief to have it over with. I don’t know that I would do it differently - hindsight is 20/20 - but I wish I’d have delegated more of the tasks that needed doing.

I really hope yall get yalls dream wedding!!!

Hi. Me and my partner have been together 2 years and we are both Christian and getting married next April. Any brilliant advice for us in keeping everything alive and keeping so fun like you both have for for the 9 years together xx

Great advice, we've been married for 13 years and I have a few regrets for the day but all in all we are still happily married and look back and glad for the day we had.

Mashallah - thank you for sharing!

The only regret I have is apparently changing the menu a couple days before. The venue said I agreed to change things (I don’t remember) and one of my aunts and uncles weren’t able to eat. Other than that, the best advice for wedding day, is to plan for things not to go right. It’s harder to be disappointed if you expect something to not go as planned.

Omgg you guys are almost at 1million congratulationssss

I would love a video explaining all the different "events/ceremonies" (i dont know what to call them, sorry) involved in a wedding & the meanings behind them. I had to make changes to my wedding to keep others happy too. I wad told that if i went ahead with my choice of singers for the reception, my dad wouldn't come at all! I was heartbroken that someone could be so cruel. I had to go with a singer that he loved, i had never seen or heard her before my wedding.

Your story is not only amazing but inspiring. Plz continue your journey together

I am so happy that you guys had your nikkah on the day of arafah! Ma shaa allah 💕

JazakAllah khayr for sharing. As my father decided to do a simple do for my wedding ( same as sana, Pakistani background) , but our family friends weren’t having it, they just simply took over and Alhamdulillah it turned out so well. It became talk of the town, the buzz it was great. But yeah almost like a shoe string wedding compared to my siblings. genuinely everyone who attended were amazing, you know how you can tell how people are really happy from their hearts, it was that kind of a feeling. I had small children crying bhaji don’t get married. Don’t leave us. But yeah it was fun.

Can’t wait to see your 10th anniversary wedding 🎊🎊

I’m not sure if you guys do vow renewal culturally or religion-wise (or if you’re opposed), but I’d suggest either a vow renewal or special anniversary celebration that’s not extravagant, but you get a gathering the way you want it, a feast, with a photographer taking beautiful photos of you two, plus beautiful photos with the children. I was typing this right when you said Will wants to give you a 10th anniversary dream wedding, so you got it covered. I know you can’t go back and change things, but you both definitely deserve to have your beautiful photos and vowel renewal or anniversary celebration.

We have been married 17 years and I was 40 when married (only marriage for both) and we eloped. I wish we would have had a full wedding day with family and friends.

totally agree!!! I went straight away to the hotel after my nikah we had a dinner party so I went right that night with my husband. My parents wanted us to wait until the reception. Also I dont like separate events it separates the family and I dont want to be amongst women I want to be with my husband

Yes plz go into details about marriage and Ceremony types

You guys look gorgeous Mashallah Allahumabarik on your wedding

My biggest regret getting married was not having a day of coordinator. I really wished I had one instead of it being me trying to coordinate the caterer, wedding cake delivery, etc. in between getting ready for my ceremony. By the time I got to my ceremony, I was so stressed out that I didn’t get to really appreciate what was happening. Also, underestimating the amount of food people can eat. As my husband and I went to take pictures, we thought that we had enough food for when we were done that we could get a plate. My husband and I had to end up eating at Outback after our ceremony because our guests cleaned up the food and there wasn’t much left for us. If Will pulls off your big 10 year day, I highly recommend the day of coordinator and making sure you overestimate the guest count when it comes to catering.

✨💕always love and support for you

So beautiful couple ✨❤️

First time watching in the channel I like the content,great job

Yes any info, will be greatly appreciated. I got married in Pakistan in April. I am learning the religion since I got married.

Don't regret something good which Allah blessed you with doing....men and women should no mingle and have mix gathering especially at such events when everyone is all decked up and in their best attires...

@elenaiabanji8821

Жыл бұрын

@F F you are "not allowed" to meet your spouse anywhere. Your parents and uncles do that for you, because they "know" better. This is more of a culture behavior than religious.

One of the regrets I have from my wedding is not getting pictures with my family and my in laws together. We had separate pictures but not together. And another picture regret is not having very many getting ready (traditional western wedding)

Jazakallahkher for sharing

U both looked amazing on ur wedding

I love how Brother Saleh start every video with Salaam

I'm not married but I will be in 9 years (when I am 20) Also I found ur channel when I was learning how to do wrap around hijab! Thank you for your amazing tutorials

Aww so relatable xxx

Alhamduillah. Thank you for sharing ❤🤲🏼

I love your positive energy. Your love for each other comes through and your videos always brings a smile to my face. May Allah brings you peace and happiness always.

I really love this familj ❤

I have a lot of regrets about my wedding as well it was a nice day and the actual service was Lovely but as it was my husbands second marriage and we where not able to afford what we wanted it was influenced to much by others wants . I had an image of my dress and even sketched it out, but what I got back was nothing like what I wanted my friend who gifted us the dress as a wedding gift and her friends the dressmaker did their own thing. I did not have the father daughter dance, I did not get to do a lot of the things a girl dreams of for her wedding.

As-salamu alaykum, I also have regrets of not having a photographer during the wedding party itself. But I am happy that our family and friends did make photos and there are some really good ones, like when we cut the cake etc.

God bless you guys… you are most lovely and I wish you and your sweet girls all the best in your future 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🙏🙏🙏🙏

I've no regrets. Cos my wedding was an Asian family wedding in 1996. The days when the bride and groom had no say in what happened at their wedding.. 😁

I found this very educational

I'm 34 and still not been married... Feeling like an old maid at the minute 🤣. But my parents have married 40 years nearly and they have some regrets about their wedding, some things they would have done differently. I think most married couples do have regrets on certain things and that's absolutely fine. Some things just don't go to plan sometimes, but look at you now, one of the best couples I've seen. Here's to the next amazing journey of your marriage ☺️

@maryamsukaynah559

Жыл бұрын

You are just a very young girl. Find a person who wishes to spend life with you😊❤️

@Dafquez

11 ай бұрын

I'm 52 years old. I got married impulsively at the age of 37. It was the worst mistake of my life, except for that all those experiences brought me to where I am now. Lots of people find love even in to their 60's, 70's, even 80's!

Great video / please do video about music . How much music allowed n what can u play n what to play on background music

May The One God bless the salah family and protect you from all the evil eyes.

Hi, big fan of yours.!!!

You could always renew your vows. This way if you wanted to get the "Glam" Video and pictures you could.

The issues you guys had, are similar to what almost every wedding goes through, maybe not all at the same time but they have them. Like I had the same issue with the decorator and photographer. The one thing we wished was to have more people at our wedding, like we had only 10 people at ours

I'm early! Yay

I got married 5 weeks after meeting my husband. Nikka in the masjid, next day walima in my sister in laws apartment just his family and few friends segregated. Just a few hours then we went on a holiday. Spent money on a nice holiday and building a home without a loan

@muslimahb2953

Жыл бұрын

Bestt

Hi, sweet family, may Allah Bless you all, I found your channel by chance, and I am trying to improve my English listening and speaking, by enjoying watching your natural videos.

I live learning about your lives and religion! Blessings to you all

Thanks for sharing. I would be more interested in details of the marriage ceremonies/days and what they mean. Like why so many days, what’s the henna for…? Glad to see an actual video. I thought you guys just moved onto shorts.

@ryze5436

Жыл бұрын

Most days are culture...religion is only a 20 minute ceremony... Islam is very simple life

you guys honestly make my day I am a big fan of you I am a big fan of Muslims and you guys are my favourite KZreadr keep it up and make more q and a,s 💙

Will, Sana, good video guys. We just had our 10 year anniversary the other day (had to search you guys because I stopped seeing yalls videos...)... but yeah we have our own regrets too. Glad you talked about this topic, trying to please other people isn't always healthy. I've ranted about my opinions on.. "strict" people teaching Islam.. before so I'll pass here but yeah.

@SalehFamily

Жыл бұрын

Happy anniversary bro!!! I wish you and your family all the best!! ❤️

@AfterDeath1986

Жыл бұрын

@@SalehFamily ♥️♥️

Whats your advice for new Muslims regarding learning to pray, how to dress etc…

I am so happy to see two young people who have really involved themselves in their religion, had the critical thought to find truth for themselves and are not 100% influenced by opinions. It is hard to see other young people, not realising that even by the time of the prophet Mohammed, everything had to be tuned to the cultural and social understanding at the time. Times are changing, people are changing so I believe the social rules in different religions should change accordingly. As long as the main pillars of the religion are kept, I don't see a problem of changing some social rules. But on the other side - everyone has their own journey and same as two you have gone through turmoil and change, we all should. At the end of the day, we are all here to learn! God bless your beautiful family 🤗 ❤️ Edit: oh no! I edited a single word, because of a spelling mistake and the ❤️ that the lovely Saleh family has given to my comment, now disappeared 😭

@SalehFamily You both looked so beautiful on your wedding day. Sana that color is beautiful on you.

@SalehFamily

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Allhamdulillah... I like your opinion keep it simple n do something not to impress other..lot love from your fan from Malaysia

The most important thing is that you end up Mr & Mrs. Blessings on you and your family.

I will say this I am LDS/Mormon so there will be different things. I wish I had more of a backbone. My mom and friend took over our wedding. We wanted to do things small and honestly we wanted to elope. But we had to have a big party to make others happy… but advice I wanna give to people who are getting married stand up for your self! It is hard but trust us when we say we wish we could do it over again… ❤️ now all of you have a grate day!!!

@christines2787

11 ай бұрын

I saved my wedding gown for my daughter. She tried it on recently and couldn't stop laughing. I donated it. She deserves to have the wedding of her dreams, and apparently that does not include sequins and a gigantic bow on her butt.

Heyyy earlyy

Just seeing this video now. I feel really fortunate to have had my dream wedding. My biggest regret though was the bouquet my husband’s family forgot it in the car in like 85 degree weather in South India (my husband is from India and I am from the US and we got married in his hometown) and it wilted some right before the ceremony. But luckily it didn’t show up in the video and my photographer photoshopped it some for our photos but if I could go back I would have been more on top of my bouquet it was brought by my husbands family not my family. We are both Catholic so we did a Catholic ceremony which is pretty similar in India and US and then we did an Indian style reception with the beautiful wedding stage. I loved it because I have so many awesome photos with everyone and many of my husband and I. In my husband’s hometown in India we could have an extravagant wedding for around 13,000 USD with all the premium packages. So I am so happy we got married there. We had 3 photographers, 2 videographers, and a live streamer who streamed the wedding for all my family in the US and friends around the world who couldn’t physically be in India. And we got two huge photo albums, a big framed wedding photo of the two of us, an hour long wedding video that shows pretty much everything, a really cute 3 minute wedding video to share with friends, and an amazing post wedding video we had at a location of our choice and we made a video to our favorite Tamil song. So, I can’t agree more on the photos and videos I am so happy I have the whole wedding documented and it only cost us like 2 lakhs or 1800 USD for all the photography and videography. So, if you are lucky enough to be marrying someone from a country where your currency is strong have the wedding there if possible. And yes make photos and videos your priority because the day will go so fast you want to have all your special memories documented. I treasure the photos with all our family and guests. We just had our wedding last September and one of the older guests already passed away and I am so glad he is in our wedding photos. I also recommend practicing your posing and taking couples photos prior to the wedding. My husband and I did engagement photos and some other photo shoots prior to our wedding which helped a lot we got comfortable in front of the camera and posing together. We also did hair and makeup trials and test shots with our photographer prior to the wedding so once the wedding day came everything was perfect. So, if possible practice hair, make-up, and photos before the big day. We got a lot of compliments saying some of our photos looked like bridal magazine photos ❤😊

Now that I think about it, we also didn’t have a professional photographer. But we really loved having a super small wedding and then a large reception a few months later.

I am not Muslim, I'm Christian but I love your videos! I got married 45 years ago and have no regrets as such. We did decide to spend on a photographer in an otherwise very inexpensive wedding. We had to be firm with those around us, including our parents, to have the quiet event we wanted. Our son got married 4 years ago, again in a relatively quiet way and learning from my wedding we interfered not at all in what they wanted, it was lovely. It is the lifetime after the event that is important not a flashy expensive day. Can I ask do you have to have an additional "legal" wedding where you live or is the religious ceremony enough "legal process"?

I love you guys!! But I'm pleasantly surprised the Hello Fresh is halla!!

@SalehFamily

Жыл бұрын

Their veggie options are amazing. And it’s delicious everytime

I may the actually get hello fresh now after seeing so many youtuber sponsors it finally dawned on me I don’t know how to shop or cook and am living in a house at college next year lol

please drop article about music ! thank you

@SalehFamily

Жыл бұрын

The link is in the description, just like we said it would be :D

We got married 38 years ago and eloped. We do not regret a single thing we did. My husband and I are both non Denominational Christians and surrounded ourselves with our closest friends. We used the money that would have been used for a wedding to help us buy a home. We never even got expensive wedding bands until we were married for 25 years. We are blessed. Thank you for sharing your experiences. I hope God blesses you with many years.

Looking forward to your extravagant renewal wedding! (if that’s what you call it, not sure if Muslim people can renew vows?)

Could you make a video on how you made the decision to follow the opinion that music is allowed?

I just got married on July 7th :) my only regret is that I had my mom do a blessing for us but I didn't hug her before she went to sit back down, I was trying to stay focused on my fiance lol

@SalehFamily

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations!!

Food looks delicious, i like cheese 🧀 to much to😄 Ma Sha Allah nice vlog again 👍

Ugh I hear you guys 13 years married here Alh. I regret not looking up at my Nikah and not seeing everyone and not walking around and saying hi to friends etc ugh 🙁. We had separation too

I’m Muslim but I’m definitely not rigid and I don’t believe music is inherently bad. Nor do I believe that men and women should be separate. I’m glad you all learned more about religion and that it’s not as rigid and strict as we think. Allah wants to make things easy for us and everything within reason. Thank you for sharing your stories on your wedding day. Inshallah I hope this helps me with my wedding prep in the near future.

God I love you guys I feel like I know you like old friends and what's love story xoxox

Masha Allah lovely couple Allah bless you 🇵🇰

멋진분들 응원합니다♡♡♡

Whenever i see you and i remember that you are from Pakistan😘😘😘it makes me much happy 😍

Thanks guys! My wedding was with music (even i didn't want it at that time) and not mixed... Sorry for my English...😬😜

Random question about the music- do you listen to music now, and if so what kind do you like? Not sure how it is in your faith, genuinely curious 😊 Great video!

Love both of you from india.

idky but wow you are so beautiful, n he's very handsome. he reminds of my nephew whom I love very much n she looks alot like my daughter inlaw. you both are beautiful inside n out

Assalamu alaykum, I tried to open the link on the fatwa but it says that the link doesn't exist, could you please share it again here? Jazakum Allah khayran ☺️

I heard it too 9 years. Lol. Love you guys ❤️

I have an important and great advice for both of you and that is that you guys should start making reaction videos.

Same here, I regret not spending on a professional photographer. We kept it simple but that would have been nice.