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Originally Posted by RickFLM4
My wife’s family is from Nicaragua and I am originally from the northeast of half Italian descent. We both celebrated Christmas Eve more than Christmas growing up. Except my wife’s family didn’t eat until after midnight, which was a big surprise the first time I went to her house for Christmas Eve when we were dating long, long ago. Her mom also has some nativity figurines handed down from her grandmother and over 100 years old. There is a part of the night with with prayer, singing, maracas and tambourines that I do not fully understand because it’s in Spanish, which I don’t speak. But I like the maracas.
Having been married 20+ years, we have blended some traditions. We now host and I usually make grilled churrasco with chimichurri (Nicaraguan style), at a reasonable hour, and the ceremony happens after we eat. Every once in a while I’ll substitute Italian, but not fish (since I hate seafood). We also have my gringo aunt / uncle and cousin and my cousin’s Jewish husband over. One of my wife’s brothers is gay and married and they join us, so I feel we have some pretty good diversity going on.
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very similar situation, except my roots are Colombian and my wife is Italian.
Her family does the 7 seafood dishes which i dont mine since i love seafood.
Spanish culture are big on lechon, or pork shoulder. We also celebrate Christmas eve and eat after 12am and prayer and singing for 9 days which is called "novena".