Girl calls wedding off when groom gets maths wrong

[hinduwoman]

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kanpur-g...uldbegroom-gets-maths-wrong/534039-3-242.html

A 21-year-old bride walked out of her wedding after the groom failed to answer a maths question. The girl claims that the groom's family showed them a different boy who was educated when the marriage proposal was agreed upon and that they were cheated.

The girl asked the boy a simple maths question when she realised that the groom was swapped with someone else. The boy's family however did not agree to the decision.

Pre-independance, there were cases of uglier girls being substituted for another during the ceremony (Hey, like Jacob and Leah) but it is Women's Lib all the way.

I feel bad about the groom and his family though. Obviously could not pass exams and therefore not acceptable in marriage market now-a-days. So the family resorted to cheating.
Bet they did not expect the bride to quiz him and that too on maths!

 

[credoconsolans]

It was a simple question.

Since this was an arranged marriage, the woman should insist on getting who she agreed to - a man with an education and chance for upward mobility - not the family idiot the groom's family is trying to ditch.

You go, girlfriend.

 

[EricK]

Quite right. If he can't even add up, then she shouldn't be expected to multiply with him.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Ya, this was a case of one family engaging in fraud in order to pawn off a less valuable piece of merchandise on a customer who had bought something more expensive. Fortunately, the customer was able to engage in some due diligence and spot the fraud before the sale was complete.

Good for her.

 

[thebeave]

Marital fraud seems to be kind of a common theme these days. This isn't exactly the same thing, but I remember reading recently about some rich, good looking Chinese guy who married some pretty hot, model-type Chinese woman, only to find out that his kids were sorta butt ugly. He couldn't figure it out. After a bit of detective work, he found pictures of her before he met her, and she was, to say the least, a bit homely. Turns out she had some fairly major plastic surgery earlier, but of course, her kids had her old fugly genes. I don't remember the final resolution to the story, but I think he tried to divorce or sue her on grounds of fraud.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kanpur-g...uldbegroom-gets-maths-wrong/534039-3-242.html

A 21-year-old bride walked out of her wedding after the groom failed to answer a maths question. The girl claims that the groom's family showed them a different boy who was educated when the marriage proposal was agreed upon and that they were cheated.

The girl asked the boy a simple maths question when she realised that the groom was swapped with someone else. The boy's family however did not agree to the decision.

Pre-independance, there were cases of uglier girls being substituted for another during the ceremony (Hey, like Jacob and Leah) but it is Women's Lib all the way.

I feel bad about the groom and his family though. Obviously could not pass exams and therefore not acceptable in marriage market now-a-days. So the family resorted to cheating.
Bet they did not expect the bride to quiz him and that too on maths!

Thank you--I've heard of this case before but not the backstory. It makes more sense now.

 

[barbos]

Marital fraud seems to be kind of a common theme these days. This isn't exactly the same thing, but I remember reading recently about some rich, good looking Chinese guy who married some pretty hot, model-type Chinese woman, only to find out that his kids were sorta butt ugly. He couldn't figure it out. After a bit of detective work, he found pictures of her before he met her, and she was, to say the least, a bit homely. Turns out she had some fairly major plastic surgery earlier, but of course, her kids had her old fugly genes. I don't remember the final resolution to the story, but I think he tried to divorce or sue her on grounds of fraud.

I remember this story, there was even a family photo. She looked much less asian than their kids.

 

[barbos]

here:

http://entertainment.ie/wtf/Chinese...s-wife-over-ugly-children-And-wins/227669.htm

They say story is fake
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/uglybaby.asp

 

[thebeave]

here:

http://entertainment.ie/wtf/Chinese...s-wife-over-ugly-children-And-wins/227669.htm

They say story is fake
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/uglybaby.asp

Oh well, looks like I got duped! Curse you Internet!!

 

[EricK]

Ya, this was a case of one family engaging in fraud in order to pawn off a less valuable piece of merchandise on a customer who had bought something more expensive. Fortunately, the customer was able to engage in some due diligence and spot the fraud before the sale was complete.

Luckily she spotted the fraud because something just didn't add up.

 

[thebeave]

Ya, this was a case of one family engaging in fraud in order to pawn off a less valuable piece of merchandise on a customer who had bought something more expensive. Fortunately, the customer was able to engage in some due diligence and spot the fraud before the sale was complete.

Luckily she spotted the fraud because something just didn't add up.

Yep, I don't think they will be fruitful and multiply.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

I encountered a case in which the man got the marriage reversed when he discovered the woman was not a virgin after the wedding. I thought that only happened in olden times, but I actually met somebody involved in that.

 

[Bomb#20]

Luckily she spotted the fraud because something just didn't add up.

Yep, I don't think they will be fruitful and multiply.

According to legend, when all the animals got off the ark and went out to settle the world, two snakes stayed behind. God asked them why they weren't going forth to be fruitful and multiply. "We can't multiply. We're adders." So God cut some lumber out of the ark and built them a picnic table, which they slithered up onto, where they made sweet sweet love...

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... because even adders can multiply on a log table.

 

[Rhea]

Yep, I don't think they will be fruitful and multiply.

According to legend, when all the animals got off the ark and went out to settle the world, two snakes stayed behind. God asked them why they weren't going forth to be fruitful and multiply. "We can't multiply. We're adders." So God cut some lumber out of the ark and built them a picnic table, which they slithered up onto, where they made sweet sweet love...

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... because even adders can multiply on a log table.

Did not see that coming. ha ha!

 

[credoconsolans]

Yep, I don't think they will be fruitful and multiply.

According to legend, when all the animals got off the ark and went out to settle the world, two snakes stayed behind. God asked them why they weren't going forth to be fruitful and multiply. "We can't multiply. We're adders." So God cut some lumber out of the ark and built them a picnic table, which they slithered up onto, where they made sweet sweet love...

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... because even adders can multiply on a log table.

Boo! Hiss! (pun not intended)

 

[PyramidHead]

If she could call off the wedding because the guy couldn't do math, why not call it off in general because it's an arranged marriage?

 

[dismal]

If she could call off the wedding because the guy couldn't do math, why not call it off in general because it's an arranged marriage?

Yeah. I feel as if that's the elephant in the room no one is talking about.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

If she could call off the wedding because the guy couldn't do math, why not call it off in general because it's an arranged marriage?

Just because it's an arranged marriage doesn't mean that she didn't agree to it, it just means that her parents found a potential match for her and she agreed to that match. If you pay for a Ferrari and the dealership hands you the keys to a Volkswagon, that's not an argument against buying cars in general. It's an argument against buying cars from dishonest people who don't give you what they agreed to give you.

It's the same here. She is the one with the choice about going through with the wedding. What she wants is to be married to the guy she agreed to get married to, though, not to someone else.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

If she could call off the wedding because the guy couldn't do math, why not call it off in general because it's an arranged marriage?

Arranged marriages are common over there and generally acceptable to the participants.

 

[dismal]

If she could call off the wedding because the guy couldn't do math, why not call it off in general because it's an arranged marriage?

Arranged marriages are common over there and generally acceptable to the participants.

Um, OK, but it's still a bit strange to treat this as a "You Go Girl!" moment of female liberation.