
What to do about this?
I was about to get engaged and started planning for marriage but suddenly bride’s father is having concerns at last moment. My family is happy and initiated all preparations now they are very upset with bride and family. Since all the setup an venue agreed is at my hometown so my parents asked bride’s family how much they can contribute after this question now suddenly everyone at bride’s family started reassessing the marriage assuming that the contribution asked is for dowry. But we made them clear we are against any dowry. It is just there contribution in marriage expenses but they are still being rigid. Now after these many days not sure what to do. Bride is also not able to convince her family.

Ye sab bate pehle karni chahiye…. to be frank. Brides family will be in an assumption ki fukat ka bakra mil gaya and it’s tough to digest ye free nahi hai last moment me…

Move on mate.. this is a lost cause and remember you are getting this in-laws baggage forever

You got the opportunity to rethink.

Run bro, if they can't contribute to a wedding hall expense for their own daughter's wedding, what else do you expect them to do for you? They would always be a liability
Man is almost close to getting milked all his life..

Man it's an standard thing to split the marriage expenses but yeah 60-40 can be done ask for it and at last they are Indian marriages there is always something or the other which will cause drama no matter what