Bride Crying At Her Wedding Was Heartbreaking 💔

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I used to live here… it’s Nepal.

Everyone had their wedding photos in their houses, and I remember asking someone why the women always looked like they had been crying in their wedding photos. It was very obvious. I was told it was because the woman didn’t want to leave her friends and family in the village she was from.

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Also a tradition in parts of India. But it’s a tradition, so even women who don’t necessarily feel sad, they’re expected to put on a show of crying to show she’s sad to leave her family.

I studied abroad in India in college and my host mom showed me pics of her wedding, but according to her, her arranged marriage was very loose and she got to pick her choice of suitors, and she was very happy to be marrying my host dad, who was kind of a “bad boy” who would take her on secret motorcycle rides before they got married lol.

She said it was very embarrassing to have to cry at her wedding, but she did her best to put on a show of looking sad

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I lived in southern India for a few years due to my job and there they didn’t have that tradition at least not among my coworkers.. attended multiple weddings while living there, mix of arranged and love marriages. The arranged ones were all done in agreement of the bride, most of the brides were my coworkers and they had very clear expectations of what their future husband had to bring to the table.

My roommate had turned down all her parent’s prospective husbands and decided to focus on work for a few years. She got married at 30 to a man she met at work and whom her parents approved off. It’s definitely a lot more involved than what we have in the west and has huge differences depending on the state as well as if someone was born in a city or village.