Article on Indian marriage as a waste of money!!
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Now, in most cases, an Indian wedding can cost anywhere from ₹20 lakh to ₹5 crores (it’s even gone up to ₹550 crores, by the way) – and we are only talking about the middle class (upper and lower included). Reliance Money, which offers personal loans, states the following in one of its blogs: “An Indian wedding is generally a three-day affair with different ceremonies and rituals lined up. Each ceremony requires its own set of apparel, set-up, and materials. The average cost of a single ceremony may range between 6 to 10 lakhs.”
From these figures, if we pick up a humble ₹8 lakh as an average for one day, and then consider the three days of festivities, then an average middle-class wedding would cost ₹24 lakh (₹24,00,000).
Now, simply multiply that with the number of people getting married – and it adds up to ₹7,20,000 crores. It’s a figure so high that it can cover the following expenses from the Annual Budget (2018-19):
1. Education (₹85,000 crores)
2. Agriculture and rural economy (₹1,87,223 crores)
3. Health (₹55,000 crores)
And it will still leave some money for purchasing weapons and poverty-alleviation!
Keep in mind that we have tried to keep the numbers as modest as possible. We all know (or can guess) what the elite society spends on their weddings. That number will probably add up to create a mini-India, while sparing enough to raise an independent budget for itself.
We didn’t do the number-crunching and the research (tedious AF, by the way) just to throw this capitalistic inclination of the nation in your face (although we wouldn’t mind doing it if required). Our aim here is to raise awareness.
Sure, there may be some of you who have always dreamt of having the most magnificent wedding possible, but if a psychologist was to analyse it, darling, it would probably come down to your need to be the center of attention while flaunting off your daddy’s dough in the form of your custom Sabyasachi (and an entire floral arrangement and gold’s worth to go with it).
An Indian marriage is a waste of money
Marriage is the tying of two people who love each other in a relationship as well as their families.
In India, there are several rites and customs related to marriage.
A feast for the neighbourhood, extended family, and near and dear ones is compulsory along with gold ornaments, dowry, home furnishings, etc.
Dowry is the worst of all. Many misogynistic people even view marriage as a form of livelihood owing to the dowry money they expect to get.
A few months back there was a report of a man who targeted middle-aged women and had fraud 27 of them for dowry.
This shows the lack of knowledge and gullibility of people which give fuel to the patriarchy, and misogynistic thoughts and drain a considerable amount of money from both the families.
People take loans to perform marriages and drain their life’s all savings on it.
Thus, these unnecessary expenditures need to be curbed, and rather the bride and groom donate some money to temples, orphanages, and old age homes.
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