I totally agree with you. Nowadays, families dont even look at the wider picture when getting their sons and daughters married off. Everyone just cares about how much money the family has etc. Like you said everyone was saying how lucky the bride was to get soo much clothes etc from her inlaws, but thats no big deal that doesnt mean she is going to be lucky after marriage. Material wealth can only make you happy upto a point. Now poor girl doesnt get on with her MIL and its this MIL that gave her all jewelley for her wedding. I think the MIL just did it to show outsiders how rich she is and how much she gave to her daughter in law.
Too much emphasise is being placed on the actual wedding and not the marriage. Its like some girls only want to get married for the wedding and not for the marriage itself. Inlaws will always act differently before the wedding, but when reality hits, thats when everything goes pear shaped.
I hope the MIL and the newly married bride sort out their differences. Either that or they will have to move out!
Thats a generalised comment that ppl only look at money when getting their sons and daughters married.......any decent mother/father will not look at money but the ppl.....................
My in laws, haven't changed one bit since 2006, we had a long engagment, all went to pakistan together for the wedding shopping, and after marriage nothing much has changed. Its a shame that stories like the above ruin in for the genuine mother in laws out there!