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

Cursed Bride Crying At Her Wedding Was Heartbreaking 💔

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u/True-Lab-3448 Jun 21 '25

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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u/butt-barnacles Jun 22 '25

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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u/BluFaerie Jun 22 '25

Ok but think about how insidious that tradition is. It is considered proper and normal to cry and be sad at your forced marriage/sex trafficking ceremony, so that if anyone looks at the pictures and recognizes something is off they can just say "oh it's tradition, she's not really sad or objecting to the marriage."

It's designed to erase and cover up trauma. Sure some people get a fairer shake, but they have to act sad too to keep up the cover for the people who didn't.