To be honest, the most confusing and difficult part for you will be selecting a denomination. I will try to sum them up to the best of my ability:
> Catholicism
The Catholic Church prescribes that it is the one true apostolic church, given to Peter by Christ Himself, and descended from the church fathers that followed. Their teachings have remained quite close to what was actually being taught in the Biblical era of the New Testament, despite complaints that they have 'modernized'. The only modernized thing about the Catholic Church would be the openness to newcomers regardless of their background, and the toning down of their condemnation of reprobates. Otherwise, their actual dogma has remain unchanged. The Catholic Church prescribes that the Pope is infallible, as well as the Church itself. This does NOT mean that everything the Pope says is right or even decent. On the contrary, most catholics disagree with a lot of Pope Francis' dialogue. However, papal infallibility only means that despite his flaws, the Pope cannot actually bring down the Catholic Church or destroy it, as the Holy Spirit will not allow him to err it. Catholicism also insists on the immaculate conception of Christ through Mary, and that Mary is sinless. Thus, catholics pray TO Mary to ask for her intercession. Catholics do NOT worship Mary at all. As far as aesthetics go, Catholics use statues to venerate saints, the Virgin Mary, and even Christ Jesus.
> Orthodoxy
The orthodox church insists that only it is the one true apostolic church. This is because of the Great Schism and the filloque, which caused the orthodox and catholic churches (which were once just one church) to split. The orthodox become 'eastern orthodox' and the catholic church became the 'roman catholic'. The orthodox proclaim that they alone hold the unbreakable traditions from 2,000 years ago, which may or may not be correct. (Imo, dogma and apologetics are far superior to just tradition, though it's up to you) The orthodox split because they believe that the Holy Spirit comes from the Father alone, whereas Catholics insist it comes from the Father and the Son (Jesus Christ). As far as aesthetics go, the orthodox church is very divided into ethnic enclaves. Russian, Greek, other Slavic nations, with each of their respective people usually sticking to their ethnic church (such as Russians in the Russian orthodox). The orthodox also venerate Mary and refer to her as the 'Holy Theokotos'. Orthodox churches also venerate, though instead of statues like Catholics, they venerate icons which are mosaic paintings of Jesus, the saints, the Father, or Mary.
> Protestantism
The prots split from Catholicism due to many disagreements with papal infallibility, the authority of the church, and other reasons. Protestants essentially have no church authority, care not for 2,000 years of apologetics and theological study, but rather proclaim themselves alone to be able to interpret the Bible. I'm sorry if that was harsh, look into protestantism yourself. But the fact of the matter is, they disregard church authority and instead read the Bible themselves and come up with their own interpretations, with no two protestant denominations agreeing on the same thing, leading to over 33,000. However, one thing they do understand is humility. They dress humbly and try to live a life as close to Jesus's as possible, which is admirable to say the least. Protestants do not venerate the Virgin Mary. They don't venerate anything actually. Look more into it, I don't know enough about protestantism to lecture you.
I myself am a Maronite Catholic, an Eastern Catholic. I belong to the Catholic Church, however the eastern rite was created mostly for middle easterners like myself.