Thursday, December 08, 2005

marriage ceremony

Today I came across 2 articles about the marriages. One about the involvement of ppl other than bride-groom and other was the enjoyment @ the marriage.

In first article, it was mentioned that bride and groom become mere spectators in their marriage ceremony and their relatives father, mother, uncle, brother, etc become real hosts and their life becomes hell. Ya, this is true. For just one day program, they have to work hard for around 1-2 months and spend money like anything.
The other article mentioned how ppl enjoyed a typical rich marriage which involved some tens of thousand crackers and some thousand of rupees thrown while dancing. One should ask to his soul is this correct ? What a waste. Ten thousands of crackers ie lakhs of rupees just wasted because someone is getting married. This money can be useful for starting a life of some poor family.
The indian marriages have became a status symbol just to show how much money we have, Is this the way ?