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The bride cancels her wedding after the groom fails to count the notes. After the husband failed to count a few 10 rupee bills, an Indian lady called off her wedding ceremony.
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Marriages in the Indian subcontinent are not just a matter of choice and love. Rather, it is a compact between people with (typically) similar histories, socioeconomic classes, values, and lifestyles who can connect to each other's experiences as they work together to keep their family and family names alive.
This sometimes-unconscious prejudice toward persons of one's social and economic status typically extends to schooling as well. Even if the elder generation in the subcontinent may warn you not to enter a marriage with any preconceived notions, everyone has a concept of what they want their future spouse to be capable of. Most individuals desire to marry someone with at least the same degree of education as them. For a variety of reasons, young women, in particular, are wary of marrying men with lower levels of education.
This viewpoint is highlighted by a recent occurrence in Uttar Pradesh, India. The bride, Rita Singh of Farrukhabad, just could not bear the thought that her husband-to-be had poor arithmetic abilities, and she called off her wedding as soon as she confirmed that the groom's math skills were lacking after he failed to count a few 10 rupee bills.
When the priest during the wedding informed the bride and her family that he believed the groom couldn't do basic algebra, her family decided to put him to the test. They handed him several Rs10 bills and told him to count them.
However, the groom misunderstood the job and so failed to demonstrate his mettle — or math.
The bride, 21, rushed out of the ceremony, declaring that she could not marry the man.
Later, the bride's family told media outlets that they were unaware of the groom's "mentally unstable" state.
The bride-to-brother be's told reporters that because the mediator was a close relative, they trusted his depiction of the groom and did not meet him in person until the day of the wedding.
"When the priest warned us that he was acting oddly, we decided to put him to the test. We handed him 30 Rs10 bills to count, which he couldn't. After knowing of his illness, Rita declined to marry him."
Unsurprisingly, the bride's unwillingness to marry sparked a quarrel between the two families, and police were eventually called in. The cops attempted to mediate a peaceful arrangement between the two families, but the bride stood firm in her decision, and the baraat (the groom's family's wedding party) returned empty-handed.
