The perils of an arranged marriage

[Warrigal]

You don't always know what you are getting.
A bit like internet relationships.

Indian groom minus a bride after failing to correctly answer simple maths equation at wedding ceremony

Sat 14 Mar 2015, 10:12pm

An Indian bride has walked out of her own wedding after the groom failed to solve a simple maths problem.
The woman stormed out after her husband-to-be failed to come up with the correct answer for 15 plus six.
He answered 17.

Police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where the wedding had been organised, said the woman's relatives put the groom to the test after becoming concerned about his level of education. Afterwards, despite pleas from the groom's family, the wedding was called off, leaving hundreds of disgruntled guests behind.

"As soon as she learned that the man was uneducated, she refused to marry him," local police official Iddu Hasan told media agency AFP.

Police were called to intervene in the row, but it was eventually resolved by the families, who returned all the jewellery, gifts and cash traditionally exchanged at an Indian wedding.

Most marriages in India are arranged by the families of the bride and groom, and it is common for men and women to marry without having spent much time together.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-...oom-for-failing-simple-maths-equation/6320230

 

[Josiah]

If Indian families want to have arranged marriages it behooves the two families involved invest some effort in establishing the bona fides of the couple involved. I'm glad this prospective bride did take the trouble. Actually I could more easily imagine the case within our western tradition of non arranged marriages of a young woman learning three weeks after she impulsively got married that her husband couldn't add 15 plus 6.

 

[Kitties]

I worked with a lovely women who is East Indian. Her marriage was arranged. (In the United States) She told me she met her husband about 10 or so times prior to their marriage. They were always chaperoned. She told me she didn't have to marry him if she hadn't wanted to. She seemed very happy.

 

[ndynt]

My parents had an arranged marriage. My poor father.

 

[QuickSilver]

Several of the Palistinian women doctors I work with have arranged marriages.. In fact one husband and wife doctor team have an arranged marriage.. They seem fine with it and happy.

 

[Warrigal]

Two couples at our church had arranged marriages in India. They are two Anglo-Indian sisters who were Christians in Hindu India and marriages were arranged within that small community. They have been successful, at least they seem to be looking from without.

I have also heard of arranged marriages for some of the girls I taught in Australia. They were all children of recent migrants - Vietnamese and Lebanese - and I'm not sure whether they would have been arranged if they still lived in their homelands. I think the Lebanese ones were long standing customs but not so sure about the Vietnamese. The Lebanese girls definitely had the right of refusal if they didn't like their suitors but they couldn't choose freely for themselves.