dowry is tradition for many years...! gold jewelry,money, land and pay for the wedding..! both elders from each side will sit at the table and give their blessing at the brides house or at a restaurant.! cause the bride will come and lives at the groom home..!
A dowry is given to a prospective groom from the bride's family. This may have been money, livestock or valuable goods.
A dowry system is something that is used often in India. This is where gifts are given to a bridegroom's family in exchange for the bride to be married to the man.
It has been an Asian tradition for the family of the bride to give the groom's family a dowry. A dowry serves as a gift for the groom and his family for marrying a girl. A dowry can be in kind or in monetary form.
Dowry.
In 1468 King Christian I of Norway gave the Orkney Islands as a security for his dowry of his daughter Margaret who was betrothed to James III. The dowry was never paid.
A dowry is either property or money given to the husband by the bride on their wedding. The practice is used as tradition in India but it was not allowed until after 1961. Some have questioned the ethical side of it, as sometimes women may have control of the money after the wedding.
If the father of the bride give the groom a large sum of money; a place in the father's business or land it is called a 'dowry.'
Below can be reasons to say no to dowry.1. If a man wants to SELF MADE MAN.2. If the amount of dowry is below his dignity.3. This happens only in INDIA- Ask for a certificate from Bride's family that no dowry was ever asked / given as Dowry Law + Criminal charges U/S 498A is worst law of the world. Each years 100s of children & tens of thousands of women of boy's family are put in jails without any investigation.The practice of dowry is world wide. It is known as bride's share also.
Bombay ( now called as Mumbai)
there is no antonym to the word dowry
No, there are no Dowry prohibition officers in Mumbai. But the Dowry is illegal if complained about.
Daughters should be given good education so that they can be confident enough to run a good family. They should be capable enough to do governmental and private sector jobs. If the females can do so, dowry is no more in existence. Dowry is demanded by idiots who are tempted to marry a stupid and illiterate girl for the property. Awareness can only help to eradicate this ailment from society.