A total of 17 couples, including one Christian tied the knot in fifth mass wedding ceremony held under the auspices of The Askari Friends Society on Sunday. The emerging tendency of holding mass wedding ceremonies is a healthy omen and proved a great solace to the destitute, who can not afford timely marriage their daughter due to poverty and heavy demands of dowry.
Member of the Society Akhtar Majeed Kapur said that each bride received a dowry consists of 30 items including furniture, utensils and gifts amounting to Rs 150,000 adding that Askari Friends, philanthropists and well-off generously donated in this noble cause.
Mass wedding ceremonies had become a blessing and to share the burden of poor segment of the society in this materialistic era. The basic concept of holding this mass wedding ceremony was to extend support to the weak segment of the society to ensure timely marriages of their daughter in a respectable way and an attempt to save their skin from heavy demands of dowry. The holding of mass wedding ceremony in the era of materialism is not less than a miracle for weak segment of the society.