I dont think it matters if the family approve or not... Its your life, you have to spend the rest of your life with this person not ur parents or your partners parents... i really get pissed of when i hear people dont marry their love because of their parents... My mums parents didnt talk to her for 2 years because she married a British man, but then they came to realise how happy my mum was and that he was a great man and now my grandparents are more open minded about the situation... We are living in 2008 now, times and traditions have changed.. Follow your heart.