Wedding Challenges

Weddings, a happy moment when a woman and man decide to spend the rest of their lives together through good and bad. Even though this is one of the happiest times in a family’s life, there are a lot problems women face before and even after the wedding. In Indian culture, when two people get married, it is not just them who are getting married, their families unite too. Due to this fact, many couples face problems as it is not only the man and woman who have to fall in love but the families also have to accept each other in order for the couple to get married happily. There has been a long standing tradition that the woman’s family incurs all the expenses of the all wedding-related events. This is not all, they also have to give the groom’s family a gift commonly called the ‘Dowry’. This tradition was reasonable in the earlier centuries as after marriage the woman goes and lives in the man’s house where she is looked after and groomed to be a good wife. However, this is not the case in today’s world as most of the married couples don’t live in an extended family and prefer to live separately from their parents. This being said, why are the groom’s family still taking dowry? Don’t you think this tradition of bearing the full cost of the wedding on the bride’s family is wrong? In May 2002 my father’s sister got …show more content…
This means the couple doesn 't have enough time to get to know each other which could lead to various problems as time progresses. Talking to my aunt currently living in the United States, she explained to me how it was hard for her to adapt to her new family as the parents of her husband were not too welcoming. They treated her as an outsider which isolated her and even got her into depression for some time. This is a problem in many Indian households as there is not enough time for the families to get acquainted hence causing disputes between the