The way the economy has been kicking young people in the jewels, it has become harder to plan and execute the lavish weddings they see in movies.
It is even trickier when you have to go through dowry negotiation, send cows back and forth, and pick your woman’s forehead out of a lineup of similar-looking foreheads. It is easier to just put that woman in your house and start splitting utilities, right? You don’t even have to tell anyone that you’re technically married.