Restrictions on Pakistani Weddings

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How do you feel about these restrictions;

  1. 1 dish

  2. Wedding functions should end by 10 pm

I use to hate both the rules but now i think the first one is for the good of our society as in some cases it saves the poor people from the embarassement of not being able to have a lavish menu. However i dont get the 2nd rule, it totally sucks. Come’on who stops having fun by 10 on wedding?! huh.

Aab aise rule banaye ge tu log tu tode ge hi na :D.

Share your views.

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really? how effective were these laws? were they enforced?

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I do think the 1 dish thing is helpful for those that are less well-off, however I don't really think it is enforced. Not where we are anyway. It does sound better than the lunch-box kind of thing people used to give out about 12 years back at my aunts wedding (gosh that was ages ago!)

I didn't even know about the second!

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what is the lunch-box thing? I have never heard of that before!

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^ Well ages ago, when I was in Pakistan at a wedding, I think when there was a real restriction on weddings and food, they used to give these box things with food in to the guests. I only saw it the once, and it was about 12 years ago. Don't know how common it was or how long it went on for?

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I think finishing at 10pm is good, depending on when the wedding starts ;). There's something inappropriate about carrying on any celebration late into the night. There's no adab in it, especially after Isha.

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I would not be strict with the timing but the one dish thing is awesome. Our walima was Pakistan and everyone had soup and snacks and that was it.

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I went to a wedding in october and The menu was pretty decent…1 rice, 1 salan, salad/naan/dessert and water.

starberry i remember the lunchboxes but that was 5 years back… 12-13 years ago, there was actual food served at the wedding…

Also I think these restrictions are for halls, cz someone told me if u do the wedding at home or in a ground there aren’t any restrictions…or if u call tia reception and not a wedding/valima, they wont’ enforce those rules :rolleyes:

A curfew is a good idea, for one it would force ppl to be on time (well kind of :D) and if there’s a wedding happening next door…I really wouldn’t want to be hearing all that crap late at night

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Double standards.

If it's mine or someone close's wedding, I wud want to stay up all night and have fun; music, dance, etc. But this restriction doesnt allow me to do that. And though my sleep gets disturbed when there is a wedding close by n i am hearing music all night BUT i am fine with it. Come'on Shadi only happens once for most people.

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i like both the restrictions
1st one as u said maham :k:

2nd one is good becoz i dnt like late night functions , it disturbs alot. . .

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1st restriction is very good.
wedding should be ended 12 not 10 pm. I think 10 pm is early.

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The rule was proposed by the association of to-be-bride-and-groom of Pakistan. When you end the wedding funtion at 10, it gives more time to them. Allah samjha karan naa. ;)

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Why laws on weddings? I mean, what's the point? Ugh!
...so no wedding in a hall, where can a girl find a decent tent people?

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maybe people should start arriving early and then 10pm closing wont be too early.

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I think its great. Hate to see the functions prolonged needlessly. Not just as a photographer but also as a guest I appreciate these rules.

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In Nov 2009 it was my sisters wedding, we had a 12 am curfew which I didnt like in the beginnin but now I think tht is pretty awsum so it gives time for the after-party. And we had no food restriction as such. so we had like biryani and some salun.

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Nooo. No bride and groom would want a boring wedding either so yah NOOO!.

Well how early? See nobody likes afternoon or evening weddings for the same reason :P Night weddings r just so much more fun.

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one dish?

finish at 10?

i must say this is news to me. i dint know they had all this kinda restrictions and laws.

but if you have only invited your close relatives in a private retaurant or hotel then surely your able to have whatever you want arent you? its no differet that going to a restaurant as a big group and ordering several dishes each.

as for the 10pm curfew... i can see how they have come about to make that decison. however, if your having a party in your own home then they cant say jack. And, i for one aint gonna follow that rule because we are pakistanis and rules are meant to be broken. whats the most they gonna do? give you a "CHALAAN" for a couple of hundred ruppes? if they do come round, invite them in, im sure they would say no to free chaval, tikkeh and rice.

peace out.

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haha. u bet most do that but its wrong however i think in some cases u dnt have option bt to go wrong :D heck i hate these rules.

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so do i but like i said, if its a family celebration, go for it. you cant make an ommlete without breaking a few eggs! lol