Monday, April 30, 2007

Too drunk to marry?

I've often thought that a lot of marriages are about timing. Here's a story that affirmed this belief:

Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom's more sober brother instead, police said Monday.
"The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride's family and local villagers chased him away," Madho Singh, a senior police officer told Reuters after Sunday's marriage in a village in Bihar state's Arwal district.
The younger brother readily agreed to take the groom's place beside the teenage bride at her family's invitation, witnesses said.
"The groom apologized for his behavior, but has been crying that word will spread and he will never get a bride again," Singh said by phone.


-Reuters

I don't know how much of a choice this young bride had when it selecting a husband but I wonder how she felt about the spur of the moment replacement. Was she secretly turned off by the way her soon-to-be-husband was behaving and relieved to marry his sober (and younger- after all, she is in her teens) brother? Did they even ask her what she wanted?

7 comments:

Chica, Cienna, and Cali said...

serves him right!!! but what abt her!!!!!

Megster said...

Moi,
My thoughts exactly!

suramya said...

interesting!! well for most people there marriage in a social obligation so I'm guessing she didn't mind as long as she got a groom. Luckily she didn't end up with the drunkard.

Wanda said...

You ask good questions. Will we ever know the answer? I hope the young couple grow to love each other and it has a happy ending.

A said...

very good question; still living in centuries behind.

AlterinG Abhishek said...

fate .. you know is powerful in strange ways!!
I am definate twenty years hence from now, more than two people ( the now husband and wife) will be happy!!
that is for sure

Megster said...

Annitya,
Yes, its alarming how many people still live in a different world!

Altering Abhishek,
I'm still trying to understand the dynamics of fate and the choices we make. In this case, obviously fate played a large role. Maybe timing is fate??