Monday, April 30, 2007

Re-arranged marriage

Note to self: If you find yourself getting married in India (hey, you never know, it might happen), try to show up for the wedding sober.
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.
Hmmmmm...doesn't sound like the "teenage bride" really had any say in the matter. Shocking, that.

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