So, if I want to have lavish wedding why shouldn’t I? Its my money and if I want to waste it its my choice. Who is govt to tell me how much I must or must not spending on my wedding? Why am I wrong?
Rawal note: One-dish wedding feasts indigestible for some - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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Arey mubarak ho Shamraz bhai… when is the auspicious day? 
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I think one dish is sufficient. Two or more dishes may put the groom in an awkward position.
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@SID_NY haha that day was long while back. 
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This just makes me sad… </3
…they better be kidding with this bogus regulation..
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I think government should levy extra tax for multiple dish - like 50k or 100k, this allows extra rich to spend money faltoo’ishly at the same time continue it for the normal folks. Win Win!
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I think it’s an outlook for people who can’t afford it. It happens sometimes that families can’t afford to throw such lavish weddings and the in-laws demand it. But laws like this helps them out and they don’t have to be embarrassed by it. I don’t think it matters if your guest comes and don’t get a karhai gosht for that day. They’ll get over it. lol
Besides, the one dish rule isn’t actually just ONE dish. It’s one Salan, one kind of rice dish, a bunch of salads, one sweet dish, one kabab dish and tea. From what i remember. Plus, the weddings that i attended back in Lahore also shut down at around 10:30, that’s a rule too. By that aspect if the rich want to party into the night, they should be able do. However, then during the no visibility-foggy-freezing-nights of punjab where a decked up wedding party in Gold gets robbed, people should be prepared for the consequences.
shrugs if people are so rich, go have a destination wedding, get out of pakistan and the one dish atmosphere, take yourself and your guests outside the country and order a bazillion dishes 
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But you still can Shamraz…just pay the hall walay enough money and everyone will look away 
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How many dishes were served at the CM’s wedding. The public shoukd monitor all marriages in his family in the past present and future.
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the rule is for the benefit of the common man. the weddings in Pakistan have become so extravagant that people expects even from an average middle class family to serve at least 4,5 dishes at the wedding, hold the function in a big banquet with all the fancy decor etc. many middle class families can’t afford to do all this but they have to as they are under the pressure of the society. With the law in place, they have a cover which they can use for not holding a lavish wedding.
As for the rich segment of the society, they can still serve as many dishes as they want as there are ways around it.
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few years back there was a ban on serving wedding food inside the wedding halls/banquets.
only beverages were allowed. Many people benefited from that and those who didn’t like this ban had found out different ways.
Like having wedding functions on open plots rather than wedding halls because the ban was only on the wedding halls having it inside the house, in clubs and restaurants.
i knew few people who merged the wedding functions with the AQIQA dinner of some kid and portrayed that the dinner was not for the wedding but for the AQIQA
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The rule is good. They should have campaigns before implementing it to increase awareness among the public as to why such a rule is needed.
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my bro’s shadi was yesterday and there was more than one main dish!
anyway we had a lot of guests from our village and people brought all their kids and they enjoyed the lavish food. I think anything is possible in Pak, people find ways to over rule it, but yes the lights were turned out at 10 pm.
ps I wasnt there, was told this by my mom.
I think government should ban dowry than have 1 dish. Its not easy for poor girls to get married as they can nt afford jehaiz.
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Some Bridezillas want to bring Jehaz even if the inlaws tell them not to bring anything.. 
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I remember attending some weddings where the only refreshment was kashmiri chai…it didn’t prevent me from attending nor was it any less fun…
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Wasting your money is maybe your right but wasting food is not. Wasting food is as big crime as polluting the environment is.
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This is so wrong. Wedding is private affair and government should not dictate them how many dishes in menu. They can implement rules on wasting food by donating to orphan house or old home.
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Perhaps the goal is so people stop wasting resources and energy/ time/ money on the weddings and start focusing on the marriage
Maybe
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My wedding was when the ban was on food altogether unless served inside the house. One could serve beverages only. It was an amazing rule. We had food back at the house for close family and we sent food back for in laws too ( obviously not lots).
Food is very expensive and if the in laws are bringing an x number of Baratis. They can’t taunt the bride later on that her side of the family served only one dish.