Marriage Expenditure

The available documents of the Marriage Expenditure and functions related to the ceremony are limited and it is categorized as miscellaneous expenses in the section 6, which in non-food expenditure and an inventory of durable goods of NLSS 2010-2011. As the detailed data on this particular topic is not available, the researcher ‘’I” want to go for the primary data and collected by himself and find out the relationship between the marriage expenses and its effect on the consumer behavior of an individual or family who married off the daughter in the area of Dhanusha district of Nepal.

A study of poverty, marriage timing and transaction to adulthood in Nepal by using national panel data from Nepal had established a clear empirical link between

It is very much clear by that the size of wedding celebration has lot of impact on the status and prestige of the both bride and groom family. This literature is showing how the expenditure in marriage celebration shows the social status of and individual which signal the status of bride’s and groom’s family to the community where it resident. This research is based on a survey data from a random sample of 800 households across five districts in rural Karnataka State in Southern India, and qualitative open-ended interviews with 100 families. In this paper the expenditure on marriage celebration shows what is the status of the individual is in the eyes of society, but I am looking for the impact of marriage expenditure on the lifetime consumption expenditure behavior of the

When he had been asked by the researcher that why he had spent a lot of money, which is beyond his capacity, he answered that his daughter gets married to a man who is educated and working, and the family is a “good family” (the meaning of “good family” here is the groom’s family was a relatively wealthy then bride’s family landowner from another village).

The explanation of the nature of marriage market in this literature explained the nature of marriage expenditure in India. First is brides and grooms are restricted to marry being in social and cultural boundary, nature of marriage is endogamous (I.e., When a person marries inside one’s group, caste, religion, class or race. It is known as endogamy. This kind of marriage is practice mostly in India, Nepal Pakistan, and Afghanistan). Second, marriage market is patrilocal, brides leave the home of her parents after marriage and starts living with her husband’s