Re: One dish wedding rule is stupid
comparing buying new cars/clothes which yield certain amount of usability and last for good number of years, to number of food dishes served at weddings that lasts only few hours is baseless. two things are different.
Expensive weddings have started to begin the norm that is affecting the Pakistan society at large. your actions if started to affect the society, no longer remains private affair.
there are families having 3, 4 daughters and they have to organize extravagant wedding functions of the first daughter even by borrowing money, because they say that if they don’t then their other daughters won’'t get good proposals as people will perceive them as financially unstable or not from “Khate Pete” gharana. And like it or not, lot of folks in Pakistan gives utmost weight to the financial strength of the girl’s family when going for rishtas.
When you have a ban like this, it does give some relief to the poor parents who can use this as a shield to keep their Bharam.
Also, this does not only restricts to girl’s family, lot of guys families get under pressure if the bride’s family do an expensive function, then the guys family is also expected to throw a lavish valima function and if they don’t then people would start talking.