One of my friends in the UK married a pakistani muslim girl and had to convert.

He is an atheist and she is not that fussed as she was born and raised in UK but her parents wanted her to marry a muslim.

wedding was muslim with Koran etc but those on the westerners tables (friends of the groom and friends of the bride from medical school) all got smashed.

They are still happily married and everything seems cool.

My mate has visited Kashmir and likes the family lots.

I guess he was lucky in that religion was meaningless to him so he was happy to sign up to islam to keep the in laws sweet