Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Indian wedding tradition won’t last long. Maybe another 20-25 years tops.

It makes no financial sense and is just a big waster of time.

I disagree. In fact, over the last few decades, Indian wedding traditions have actually become even stronger and more commercialized. The reason is that in the US - Indian Americans have the highest median HHI and they also remain very connected with their country of origin where the economy is booming. Apart from the fact that the culture of expensive weddings always existed to enable transfer of wealth, now there is also the Bollywood and social media influence.

Cultural aspects of weddings incorporate what they value as a society - very well educated and established children, children marrying people from similar backgrounds, close knit family and a painstakingly cultivated large social and familial network.

Indian people won’t always marry Indian people in the future. Similar to the 1900s when Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, Black, Spanish people only
Married within one race and religion and weddings served cultural food and both bride and groom same religion.

Plus the Indian wedding is silly and cheap to outsiders.

I say that as last one I went to was very expensive to brides parents as I know all the outfits they bought, all the related events. It was like a weeklong celebration. I show up with wife it is a Jain wedding, with no meat or alcohol and a buffet. It seems all the money spent none was geared towards the guests. I felt I got $5 bucks of rice and veggies could have went to Cava.

Oddly an orthodox Jewish wedding best wedding I went to! Although orthodox they did not make non Jewish guests eat kosher crap. Was like crazy crazy crazy good. I heard a $500k wedding and that was 1992!!

But overall Italians have best weddings.

There is no way that an Orthodox Jewish family's wedding didn't involve kosher food. Maybe you didn't know it was kosher, but it was.

Every Jewish wedding I have ever attended including Orthodox Jews' weddings has involved excellent food, in great abundance. Nothing "odd" about that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Indian wedding tradition won’t last long. Maybe another 20-25 years tops.

It makes no financial sense and is just a big waster of time.

I disagree. In fact, over the last few decades, Indian wedding traditions have actually become even stronger and more commercialized. The reason is that in the US - Indian Americans have the highest median HHI and they also remain very connected with their country of origin where the economy is booming. Apart from the fact that the culture of expensive weddings always existed to enable transfer of wealth, now there is also the Bollywood and social media influence.

Cultural aspects of weddings incorporate what they value as a society - very well educated and established children, children marrying people from similar backgrounds, close knit family and a painstakingly cultivated large social and familial network.

Indian people won’t always marry Indian people in the future. Similar to the 1900s when Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, Black, Spanish people only
Married within one race and religion and weddings served cultural food and both bride and groom same religion.

Plus the Indian wedding is silly and cheap to outsiders.

I say that as last one I went to was very expensive to brides parents as I know all the outfits they bought, all the related events. It was like a weeklong celebration. I show up with wife it is a Jain wedding, with no meat or alcohol and a buffet. It seems all the money spent none was geared towards the guests. I felt I got $5 bucks of rice and veggies could have went to Cava.

Oddly an orthodox Jewish wedding best wedding I went to! Although orthodox they did not make non Jewish guests eat kosher crap. Was like crazy crazy crazy good. I heard a $500k wedding and that was 1992!!

But overall Italians have best weddings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Indian wedding tradition won’t last long. Maybe another 20-25 years tops.

It makes no financial sense and is just a big waster of time.

I disagree. In fact, over the last few decades, Indian wedding traditions have actually become even stronger and more commercialized. The reason is that in the US - Indian Americans have the highest median HHI and they also remain very connected with their country of origin where the economy is booming. Apart from the fact that the culture of expensive weddings always existed to enable transfer of wealth, now there is also the Bollywood and social media influence.

Cultural aspects of weddings incorporate what they value as a society - very well educated and established children, children marrying people from similar backgrounds, close knit family and a painstakingly cultivated large social and familial network.

Indian people won’t always marry Indian people in the future. Similar to the 1900s when Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, Black, Spanish people only
Married within one race and religion and weddings served cultural food and both bride and groom same religion.

Plus the Indian wedding is silly and cheap to outsiders.

I say that as last one I went to was very expensive to brides parents as I know all the outfits they bought, all the related events. It was like a weeklong celebration. I show up with wife it is a Jain wedding, with no meat or alcohol and a buffet. It seems all the money spent none was geared towards the guests. I felt I got $5 bucks of rice and veggies could have went to Cava.

Oddly an orthodox Jewish wedding best wedding I went to! Although orthodox they did not make non Jewish guests eat kosher crap. Was like crazy crazy crazy good. I heard a $500k wedding and that was 1992!!

But overall Italians have best weddings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Indian wedding tradition won’t last long. Maybe another 20-25 years tops.

It makes no financial sense and is just a big waster of time.

I disagree. In fact, over the last few decades, Indian wedding traditions have actually become even stronger and more commercialized. The reason is that in the US - Indian Americans have the highest median HHI and they also remain very connected with their country of origin where the economy is booming. Apart from the fact that the culture of expensive weddings always existed to enable transfer of wealth, now there is also the Bollywood and social media influence.

Cultural aspects of weddings incorporate what they value as a society - very well educated and established children, children marrying people from similar backgrounds, close knit family and a painstakingly cultivated large social and familial network.

Indian people won’t always marry Indian people in the future. Similar to the 1900s when Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, Black, Spanish people only
Married within one race and religion and weddings served cultural food and both bride and groom same religion.

Plus the Indian wedding is silly and cheap to outsiders.

I say that as last one I went to was very expensive to brides parents as I know all the outfits they bought, all the related events. It was like a weeklong celebration. I show up with wife it is a Jain wedding, with no meat or alcohol and a buffet. It seems all the money spent none was geared towards the guests. I felt I got $5 bucks of rice and veggies could have went to Cava.

Oddly an orthodox Jewish wedding best wedding I went to! Although orthodox they did not make non Jewish guests eat kosher crap. Was like crazy crazy crazy good. I heard a $500k wedding and that was 1992!!

But overall Italians have best weddings.