For many women, their wedding day is the most important day of their lives. They fantasize about their wedding day, dreaming about everything from the dress to the venue to the décor to the food. In fact, some brides to be get so caught up in the hysteria of planning a wedding that they forget about the most important part – the marital relationship.
At the end of the day, the saat pheras symbolize your (supposed) desire to spend your next seven lifetimes with your husband. If you think that marriage is the best way to “prove” your love to the world, then you need to reconsider. The newspapers are full of promising love stories that end in heartbreak and disaster. If you want to avoid becoming just another statistic, then you need to seriously think about your relationship and your life together. The below mentioned paragraphs enlist some of the reasons why you should wait to get married:
Marriage does not magically fix problems in a relationship
Whether you choose to go in for an arranged marriage or a love match, the initial excitement of meeting new guys is enough to turn even the soberest women into giddy young girls. Once the shine is off, in a manner of speaking, you may find yourself disagreeing with your fiancé or boyfriend on a number of important issues. Or you may simply find that you both want different things from life. Sweeping your problems under the carpet while you plan a wedding does not mean that they won’t exist afterwards. After all, it is better to speak up and break off an engagement rather than stay silent and be forced to get a divorce later.
Weddings are extremely expensive
Getting married is a pretty expensive affair, especially for the bride’s family. After all, the proportions of The Big Fat Indian Wedding are pretty legendary. If you find that your relationship is slowly breaking apart under the strain after your get married, then you will be left with nothing but an empty wallet, broken dreams and useless wedding gifts. I don’t want to dampen your high spirits, but it is true.
How well do you really know your fiancé?
For people from our parent’s generation, it was nothing out of the way to get married to someone that you met only your wedding day. Of course, things are different today …. Or are they? If you followed the media coverage of the wedding of GVK Reddy’s 20 year old granddaughter Mallika to the scion of a Hyderabad infrastructure family, then you could be forgiven for thinking that the wedding was taking place in 1980. In fact, most of the media outlets referred to the bride solely as “GVK’s granddaughter”, as if that was the sum of her identity. If you want to go in for such a marriage, then be prepared for a lot of “adjustment”! In fact, you may have to “adjust” so much that you might as well end up getting a lobotomy!
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Do you think I’ve left off any other major reasons off the list?
