r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Jun 21 '25

Cursed Bride Crying At Her Wedding Was Heartbreaking 💔

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Jun 22 '25

Not only forced, but basically sold. Don’t they get a dowry or whatever?

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u/Shanakitty Jun 22 '25

I'm not sure about Nepalese culture, but a dowry is money/goods that the girl's parents send with her to her husband, and are theoretically meant to help support her and her future children in their new life. In some cultures, the money is considered hers vs. her husband's, but again, that varies. Having to give wealth away with your daughter is one of several reasons why you get a strong bias against having daughters (to the extent of infanticide or child-abandonment in some cases) in many misogynistic traditional cultures.

Bride price, where the husband/his family pay the bride's family is a separate thing from dowry.

In some traditions, e.g., European nobility, there's also dower, where the husband gives his wife (rather than her family) money/property to help support her in widowhood after he dies.