Re: Traditional Pakistani weddings against Islam?
[quote=Unreal] yea i completely agree with Sara, this dowry thing is the leading cause of divorce rate in pakistan.... actually it should be other way around, guy giving dowry (as a money) to the girl...quote]
I've personally never understood this dowry thing because altho i consider my family backwards sometimes in our family it is actually the other way round. The guy gives dowry to the girl. Altho, we never ask for much only from a custom manner when it used to be something like 30 rupees...so equivalent is something like £30. But, i kno that the girls family never give anything to the guy. Altho, when she gets married her parents will give her presents (i kno my parents are thinking of giving me a car i think) but this remains the girls property.
I think it is a female's rite to ask for something from the guy (haq meher)..
I dont think theres anything wrong in giving somethin to teh guy, i deff would want to,b ut when they xpect it, and when parents start feeling bad abt not providing enough, when it leads to social evils as seeing daughters as mostly financial burdens, yeah it is pretty pathetic