The season three finale of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated Family Karma airs on Bravo February 26 – and it’s a big moment! of Amrit Kapai and Nicholas Kouchoukos are going to tie the knot! Needless to say, the happy couple has feelings about the upcoming wedding.
Watch a first look at Amrit and Nicholas’ big day on the “Family Karma” season finale here:
“There are a bunch of emotions,” Kapai admitted to GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos in a recent interview. “I don’t have one emotion: I’m excited, I’m nervous, I’m a little anxious, I’m grateful – It was so important for the world to see this wedding happen because there is nobody in this world and especially in the LGBT community that should think that they can’t have a big wedding or they can’t have a blissful marriage because of their gender identity or their sexual orientation.”
He continued, “We knew that it was going to be tough. We knew there were gonna be a lot of obstacles and hoops to jump through…viewers are going to see all of it. They’re gonna see happy moments. They’re going to see raw, raw, honest, brutally honest moments and conversations that need to take place. All in all, you know, everyone wants their happy ending and we got ours and I want people to be able to celebrate with us.”
Kouchoukos popped into the interview to also share his feelings. “I’ve been able to see some video clips from our wedding videographer – not from the Bravo production – but it is so fun to relive all those moments,” he told Ramos. “Each time that I watch the video, I cry and I get choked up. It’s just so much fun to see all of your worlds collide with your friend groups, your families and to see the happiness and the joy on people’s faces.”
When Kapai first was struggling with his sexual identity, he never thought that in his wildest dreams that he would be able to get married. More than that, he realizes the struggle for queer people who come from traditional South Asian families. “I can’t even imagine how difficult it must be,” he said.
Kouchoukos chimes in, “It’s hard to read the DMs from people who live in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh who applaud us on what we’ve been able to work for, but it’s a sobering reality that we live in such stark contrast to the opportunities that they have.”
They say they are lucky to be accepted and embraced by many of their peers in this country. He hopes that other South Asian and other families around the will be able to watch the show and be more accepting of LGBTQ people.
“If we make one person feel less alone in their life journey, then all of this is totally worth it,” said Kapai.
Kapai and Kouchoukos said they combined a lot of queer culture within the Indian ceremony including a tea dance — a queer high-energy afternoon dance party which is a tradition for many gay vacation destination. In addition, Kapai are really excited for the audience to see their mandap, a decorated, ceremonial stucture. It was important to perserve that tradition. “The most special for me to be able to stand up on the mandap, the altar where we got married and say my vows to Amrit,” said Kouchoukos.
“It was a gay wedding,” Kouchoukos continued. “We gave people a color palette in our wedding invite. For each event there was a suggested color palette because we wanted people’s outfits to match with the decor so that when we took pictures it would just look amazing and people delivered.”
“I’m so excited for viewers to see the decor, the dances, the colors, the food and everything, everything, everything, everything,” Kapai gushes.
“Family Karma” airs Sundays at 9pm on Bravo TV.