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post Mar 8 2016, 12:14 PM

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TS, don't bother about checking the market rate for dowry.

What I see in such situation is that you have offer 10 tables (of the same restaurant with your family). And that is the budget you spare for them. Hence, is quite valid if they ask for RM25K cash instead of RM25K value of table. Unless your family decide to move to other restaurant that cost RM1.5K per table, then you can offer to pay all their tables.

After offering 10table cost of RM25K but now wanna to reduce the amt as dowry will be a bit disrespectful to the girl family, like fooling them.

My time (more than 10yrs ago), my hubby given my family RM6K dowry with complete Chinese wedding gift.. no offer table. And my parents just ok with it. But I can imagine if he offer the tables as a start and end up shrink budget telling my parents to exchange with lower cash.. my parents sure upset. Coz that only trigger 1 sentence "you treat us as secondary is it?" tongue.gif
By the way, my in-law side cover the wine for dinner and my mom was unhappy coz they given the cheaper range to girl side. By right, should be all same kind of wine serve for both side at the same dinner, as that tied to face-value.
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post Mar 8 2016, 04:48 PM

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Actually most of the girl's parents will use the dowry to buy gold and return it back to the bride. In a way, your money make a big tour and end up back to your hand. At the same time, your in-law happy that son-in-law is generous. Unless all along you already seen them as "korek duit" kind of ppl. (Your wife should know). If they are not, no worry.. they won't pocket the dowry.. it all goes back to the wedding.

My aunty never request a single dowry from her son-in-law coz she said she don't need that money and herself is quite well off. But her son-in-law earn high SGD salary too. So, as a "security" she took the dowry and converted it back as an angpao to her daughter. Indirectly take the $ from the son-in-law hand and put it inside daughter's account. Hehehehe.. so that is so much a parents can do for daughter. But fair la.. nowadays man usually married working wife who also contribute some $ back home.
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post Mar 16 2016, 04:48 PM

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You should know your wife's family well. Thou they ask for huge amount, but usually the girl family did not pocket it. They use it for wedding preparation. Like myself, thou my mom get dowry.. and portion of it being use for preparation. Thou there are balance .. but if calculated, the gold jewelry and angpau that my parents give us far beyond the dowry amount (in a way, they rugi after marry out the daughter).

Whereas my in-law, given me very little in terms of gift (they recycle the same gold ring that they bought for my hubby at 21yrs old as tea ceremony gift for my hubby). But we pay for the dinner (guy side) and 99% guests are inlaw's fren.. and inlaw pocketed the angpao. In another word, my parents rugi when daughter get married, whereas my in-law make use of our wedding and earn angpao $. Or to say, I earn from my parents, and we loss to his parents.
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post Apr 7 2016, 08:59 AM

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TS offer is a bit on the high side, and the gf's parents seems getting greedy. Anyway, at least it settle.

Congratulations!
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post Apr 7 2016, 03:48 PM

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QUOTE(LS Trading @ Apr 7 2016, 02:00 PM)
Congratulation, TS.

but bear in mind, be cautious, don't assume it is settled. not until your actual day because anything can happen until the actual day.

once u pass the actual day(actual day ceremony tea session,not guodailai) bringing liquor and fruits over. nothing happen.then it's fine.
because there is where all the relative is there and mouth,words is the strongest weapon. aunties,relative will talk and give alot of unecessary opinion.
example my friend. on actually day he brought wine to lady's house as agreed.one of the auntie mention, 'walao eh, wine owh...your daughter got so cheap like wine or not? i also can buy wine for u la. must at least liquor. don't give chivas or black label. this kind of liquor is hakyee liquor."..my friend straight no face.
the worst part is after hengdai play jimui game
relative all guard at door.dont let him enter house.
u want come in, go buy liquor.so no choice. one of his friend coincidentally got liquor at home, brought for him. the whole ceremony was on hold.
then auntie stand there with her mother and relative said, "want to get bride. where got so easy? if so easy, then bride no value".

i am not saying this to scare you. but we as guy, we ready until the very last minute.many other things example chinese custom, we are still not really familiar.
although we are familiar. there will be someone saying something on that day.

as of now, u are 33.33% settled.
congratulation, bro.
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Is true..sometimes ppl around us may have some last minute decision that give you a shock.
During my wedding, my father-in-law borrow his cousin's car. But right after the morning wedding ceremony (bride received into groom's home). My father-in-law immediately return the car. That uncle was shock coz ppl already expected that a wedding car will be use for whole day and he don't mind. But my father-in-law insisted. And that time, we travel bk hometown using my Kelisa. Since wedding car already returned... end up my Kelisa is parked at the wedding car parking infront of the restaurant tongue.gif ... looks a bit odd. But the worst part happen is .. after the event, I directly head home without changing. I hardly sit straight with my belly-tight and huge gown. Hence, kena lie down in the car from restaurant bk home.. yucky..
If we know such stupid thing will happen, might as well pay a bit more and rent car from the wedding studio.. instead of let my father-in-law borrow car.
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post Apr 8 2016, 08:22 AM

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QUOTE(ifourtos @ Apr 7 2016, 06:21 PM)

i have my wedding dinner done in a 4 Star Hotel in a giant ball room
RM688/table ( 2013 )

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Wow! Can you enlighten us, where is the location of this hotel. Klang valley?
It will help lots of singles here if you can state the area for them to source.

Me 11 yrs back, in hometown TaiThong already cost me RM688 (b4 tax).
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post Apr 11 2016, 04:13 PM

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QUOTE(LS Trading @ Apr 8 2016, 03:39 PM)
Holy mother of god. very paiseh. actually best to return the car either after dinner or next day.
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Haha..yalar.. u feel me. By the way, that is not the only surprise.
When I called my husband 30minutes before the schedule time that he suppose to reach my house. He said he is waiting for Roast pxg at the shop. Groom gotta bring that big thing bk.. no delivery. bangwall.gif
Where are his friends? Wrong message sent.. everyone meet up at my house to fetch the bride; instead of travel together from groom's house.
And he is late of coz. Hahahaha...


Anyway, hope everyone have a pleasant experience during the whole event.. thou mine with some funny stuff happening, at least those are the hiccups that remind me of my event.
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post Apr 28 2016, 11:59 AM

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QUOTE(Ruidon @ Apr 22 2016, 11:36 AM)
I am getting married this year too. From my understanding, it goes like this.

If let's say dowry is like 10,000. If the groom doesn't have much cash on hand, they can do something like give 5 tables to the bride family (costing RM 1,000 each - total RM 5,000) + another RM 5,000 in cash. Total is 10,000.

OR

Give total 10 tables for the bride family with RM 0 dowry (if they accept it)

But then again, you have to take into consideration the "angpao received" on that wedding day itself. Does it belongs to you - OR - are you going to split it with the bride side? Is your wedding fully handled by you and the bride or its gonna be a split?

A split usually means groom takes up 25 tables, bride takes up 25 tables. Angpao received is divided depending on how many pax are attending. Some have huge family members vs the partner's side. Maybe the groom has 75 tables and bride side only have 10 tables. So therefore the groom is entitle for his own angpao received and bride on her own. Costings are calculated separately.

On my side, I am thinking giving dowry of RM 6000 + 3 tables (worth Rm 4,800) = Rm 10,000 +. Angpao I take all (I as in me and my wife) to cover the entire dinner. If covered everything, aka my dowry is just RM 6000 cash tongue.gif
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Good, that you have a plan. But do be ready that what your plan may not be what your inlaw expecting. Just be open for negotiation, but who knows... not all inlaw expect $ (although by culture.. mostly does).

My cousin sister married mat salleh, my aunty so worry coz as she understand that girl is expected to pay for the wedding (for western culture), opposite from us. But to her surprise, her son-in-law wanted to follow chinese culture and willing to pay for the wedding. My aunty, thought to make it simple for the wedding, by using the lumpsump $ given by her son-in-law, she label multiple angpaos with each representing dowry, roast pig, wedding biscuits, etc.. (all the traditional barang hantaran). Of coz, she is the only person preparing for the event, as the inlaw side are westerners. But in the end, her son-in-law question her where is the real roast pig, biscuits and all. Coz he is expecting to have a real chinese wedding.. not a semi-modern kind using angpao represent each of it, where some of our local chinese doing for convenience.. hahahah. tongue.gif

So better talk properly and know the expectation from the other side. Hahaha.

 

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