Middle-Class Marriage Trend Moving towards Destination Wedding

Abstract

Marriage in a middle-class Indian family is like once -in- a -life festival that is celebrated wholeheartedly spending lifetime savings. Parents start saving money for their children's marriage right from birth to spend lavishly during the marriage. The act of saving money becomes more necessary if the parent has a girl child as our society is still suffering from the disease of dowry and in some cases dream of the parents themselves to giveaway, every possible gift to their daughter during the marriage. In Indian marriages, almost every friend and family gather to enjoy the ceremony and it becomes really difficult to handle such a huge crowd. Generally, a nearby banquet hall is booked or free space is decorated to conduct the function but recently the concept of a destination wedding has become very famous, it no more means foreign locations, now they can even be organized at nearby hills or famous spots with very close near and dear ones to enjoy at fullest. There are many reasons that have provided such an option for marriage to a middle-class family. During COVID, the concept of gathering every relative and friend for marriage was blown up and opened the scope of organizing the ceremony with minimum people. Also, an increase in the purchasing power of families and people moving away from clans are other reasons provoking middle-class families to opt for destination weddings. In this paper, it has been tried to find the social pros and cons of a destination wedding.