more like a way of showing off the family's position in society....i know it's a very cheap way to do so but they do it nevertheless.

or like showing off to the world that "look,we've given our daughter so much...and that implies what kinda treatment she's gonna get at her in-laws place"

crappy logics!but these are the explanations i was given when i asked the same questions to ppl.

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor