Re: Who will keep my gold jewellery?
some of you have never heard of this but it happens…
a few years ago when my best friend was getting married in Pakistan she called me to ask to ask what to do as she was expected to give all her jewelery to her MIL before the wedding…
because that was how it was supposed to be done…!
when my SIL moved abroad after getting married in Pakistan she gave all of hers to her MIL and that was looked as the best thing she had ever done…
I know someone too well…she was moving abroad too after getting married and had all of her big pieces of jewelery in the bank but just on the day she was leaving her FIL had a fit about it which kinda got ugly and she had to go to the bank first thing in teh morning and get it from there to hand it back to the old man…apparently he thought that what his side of the family had given to the bride was his property for life,and if she had that to herself she might wanna run away with it…
…she did give him everything at that time but later on after a year took it back and now has it with her or in the bank…
so I have seen making it an ego issue in Pakistan that if the DIL …one of the makes-no-sense kinda things that happen in families there…
so its not new…
IMO,you should keep it with you…
I might be incorrect but I think i read this somewhere that islamically speaking all the gold that a bride gets from both sides of the family is hers to keep even when the marriage no longer remains…
I just added this as an added info,…correct me if I am wrong…