Indian couples distraught over having to cut wedding guest lists of 600

First world problems....oh wait.

R1 🤭

I suspect they should skip the wedding and just get on with the divorce.

But HER MOTHER'S BLOOD PRESSURE!!

I'm sure she's more distraught than he is.

Boo fucking hoo

Is having a huge wedding a sign of higher caste in India? I know they are a lot more concerned about things like that.

"Heena Vashisht"

While half of Indians don't have access to toilets...we get this. India is disgusting, spending money on rockets to Mars (what, so they can dump their garbage there?) while 500 million people are shitting in the open and spreading disease.

Ha, ha, eat your heart out, bitches...

Just like the USA, R9. Or have you missed out on what's happening in our cities right now?

R7 Not a caste issue really. There's an expectation of a huge and lavish wedding for any family with the means to afford it.

R11 apples and oranges and you are ridiculous.. 500 million people are shitting in the streets in India. 500 MILLION SOULS SHITTING IN THE STREETS. Imagine the smells! The diseases! What exactly is India's infant mortality rate? It is 30/1000 while in the US it is 5/1000.

You idiot, the US has 500 THOUSAND homeless. To compare 500 million shitting in the streets to 500,000 homeless - you are too stupid to be posting.

To be fair to r9, it is much, much worse in India. Some pockets of homeless people occasionally shitting in the streets doesn't compare to a third world nation with first world pockets, the massive air pollution, and the actual CULTURAL PRACTICE of a large percentage of Indian citizens peeing and shitting wherever one can, in India.

Also you're doing "Whataboutism" which is a Russian tactic. It doesn't mean that the original point is meaningless just because something else is also a problem, it just seems defensive, if anything.

Not only do they have huge weddings but they go on for days and days. Just elope .....

But how will she explain to her eighty close family members, R15?!

I know, right? Mother having life threatening vapors would be enough for me to keep the wedding plans going.

Indian Bridezillas must have their epic Bollywood-style weddings, or they are failures in life!

I used to work with an Indian woman. She and her husband incurred serious debt by paying for their daughter's wedding.

This is the UK, the same country that declared COVID over not long ago? Meeting other people is a part of society. I don't want to fully live in a metaverse! To see every get-together as optional and every person as a potential danger will reshape our already fragmented society, and not for the better. I get why she is upset. To all who moan that cruises or parties or the opera is cancelled but who laugh about her should maybe reconsider. What right do I have to tell others what to do? I am responsible. I have no problem with being tested for everything despite being vaccinated. I wear a mask even if I don't strictly have to. I am totally fed up, however, with the government micromanaging and complicating my private life as well as work-life with new guidelines every day. (I live in Europe.)

India's wealth disparity is even worse than the America's, the rich have no concern AT ALL for the poor.

Weddings are a huge deal in any culture. In a country like India, where most people have not much to be happy about, they use weddings as an escape to forget about their poor miserable lives and celebrate. All the planning, preparations, the travel, the focus, the celebrating etc. is about distracting yourself from your own misery for a little while.

People who rely on these kinds of distractions suffer immensely during a pandemic with all the lockdown and crowd control measures.

Wrong, r21. Inequality is larger in the US.

R23 that's not what that means.

The US has higher income inequality because we have more billionaires and people with extreme amounts of wealth compared to the rest of the population.

India has less overall wealth (despite having over double the population) and thus there's less disparity between the top earners and the rest of them, because there aren't as many billionaires and people with extreme amounts of wealth.

There's a lot more poor people in India than the US.

It amazes me how morally bereft most Indians are. The haves get bent out of shape over the stupidest things while hundreds of millions of their fellow citizens wash their clothes/shit in and drink from the same river.

One of the craziest things I've read recently is what The Economist thinks could be the real death rate from covid in India:

" In India, for example, our estimates suggest that perhaps 2.3m people had died from covid-19 by the start of May 2021, compared with about 200,000 official deaths."

She should just have the bride + groom, their respective parents and have it at that. Their siblings too if that stays under 20.

Hurry up and die, [R20].

[Quote]India has less overall wealth (despite having over double the population) and thus there's less disparity between the top earners and the rest of them

Yeah, which means India is indeed less unequal, genius.

The Bride better be careful, piss off the wrong in-law and she'll end up being burned alive!

Serious question: if Indian weddings have so many guests, how do Indian people have time to do anything other than attend weddings?

^ They just put you on hold while they attend weddings

India coverage section this week at the Economist. Lots of interesting articles.

Why isn't the administration speaking up about this? Aren't they the defenders of Muslims in China?

Oh noes! It's a sorry sari world when you have to limit your ostentatious displays of conspicuous consumption. Who will the poors look up to?

Seriously, too many couples spend more time and effort on their damn wedding than on their marriage. Not just in India, but everywhere.

R11 is a fat, closeted desi mama boy yapping from Santa Cruz.

India amongst the most unequal countries in the world, says report

Yeah but there are like a billion and a half Indians. So having 600 guests is like have 10 guests in America.

That's not how that works r37.

I say have at it. I'm exhausted by the efforts to protect the stupid from themselves.

Just like a MAGAt/tRump rally. Go ahead, you've been told.

And don't come crying when the consequences of your idiotic decisions come back and bite you .

Go Fund my ass.

How can they afford these weddings? Aren’t they a broke ass people? They shit in the streets!

R28 Wow, for what exactly? They could only admit vaccinated people with a test. What sensible argument is there against this?

So woke. So brave.

So only 20 people will get the runs. Sounds good to me!

r38

yes it is

I was just reading about an Indian couple having a massive wedding with everyone attending virtually - why can't this couple do that? Have all the presents sent to you, but you don't have to feed anyone, seems like a win-win.