Originally posted by: BullsEye777
And in real life also, people in India are conscious about social class though unless it was a love marriage, I have rarely heard of this much of disparity between the two families.
^Neither have I. But I guess it's possible as long as the bride's family is able to pay for the whole wedding and provide the dowry (what ever the groom's family requests for)... this is what I've seen happening in Punjabi villages. When I went to my bua's daughter's wedding in India I was shocked these kinda traditions are still held high there (and I dont get why they do dowry when it's forbidden in Sikhism).
Using my bua's family as an example, I'm not sure how wealthy or not they are (they have a decent size house but don't know how much farm land they own), for their daughter's wedding my dad and both his brothers pitched in to pay for majority of the wedding costs (We're in Canada and his brothers are in the States and UK so I guess like most villagers there my bua probably assumed her brothers have enough money to pitch in since theyre from these foreign countries)... my bua's daughter got married into I would say a fairly wealthy family... more wealthier than my bua's that's for sure (and yes the groom is NRI but his family lives in India :P).
Getting back to the point if the bride's family has way less wealth than the groom's family, the only way I see the wedding happening (talking about village weddings of course) is if the bride's family is able to meet the demands of the groom's family (it helps a lot if you have close family members living in wealthier foreign countries)... rarely do you ever see a family like Parmeet's in a village who don't ask for much from the bride's family ... I would say in terms of the wedding happening, Bani's family got off lucky they didn't have to buy Parmeet expensive things or buy a new car/tractor for the family.
Edited by MannieXO - 12 years ago