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'Wedding Customs' A Source of Relatives' Satisfaction?

I was standing in  a  metro bus  on my way to the   grandest   Shah  Alam  market  of Lahore , when I heard a young girl's voice standing next to me. She was loudly  exhibiting   her probably friend  the reasons of her refusal   to go to her  male- cousin's future in-laws. Since they're talking very loudly, I along with everyone  else, quite  unwillingly  &  unintentionally,  started  listening to her family story. Her cousin's future in-laws had refused to gift the girls with  Joras  (clothes) , in order to kill   a common  custo m  in Pakistan to gifting fancy dresses to the groom's entire family individually  & probably because such customs were not affable for the bride's family . So in retaliation, the girls had planned not to attend her cousin's wedding function, because  she & her other cousins   felt insulted.  This is som...