Is Marriage a symbol of status??

Yesterday, I had to attend one of my friend’s marriage. I was held up with work. But still tried to finish up my work by 7 and went to the marriage Hall by 8. The hall was more spacious but there was no crowd. My friend’s marriage was a love marriage so I myself thought that only because of that there were very less crowd. As we finished our dinner and came out it was raining heavily. So myself and three of my other friends boarded an auto.

My friend started like this “I wonder why there was less crowd”. I told the reason what I had thought. She agreed to that. Later, she told “Marriage is an occasion that takes place only once in our life. It should be in a grand manner. The people who come for our marriage should go out and propaganda that they had not seen any grand marriage like this. The food should of best quality. The procession must be so grand”. She went on. I just smiled at her. She asked me why I am smiling. I told her, Marriage is a part of life. Of course, it’s a turning point in life because we have to share our entire life with someone we never knew before. But making that as a grand occasion is just waste of money. What is more important is the life we are going to lead after that. Our understanding. How we balance our life in spite of differences in opinion. Marriage should not be a symbol to depict our status. Just it should be a simple occasion with few well wishers to wish us all the best for our entry into new beautiful life.

There are people who suffer because they think that doing a grand marriage depicts their status and it’s a must and they get into unnecessary debts and make their living hard. Even my educated friend was not able to accept my view!! Then what can be said of others!!