Thank you for your kind words.
Yes, the girl's family need to bear all the expenses of the wedding to childbirth in most communities.
Very rarely do the families agree on splitting the expenses.
Yeah these are huge expensive affairs which could send some families reeling into debts
Leading to girls being considered a burden in India and female foeticide being common.
The government has declared the revealing of the sex of the fetus illegal to curtail such behavior.
It is one vicious cycle.