Marriage Halls in the USA & Elsewhere

It's natural that they are expensive. I'm just assuming. Because such functions are very close to our heart. They are once-in-a-lifetime occasion. We invite a lot of guests as well. There are celebrations. Food is served to everyone present there on the occasion. Everyone enjoys the reason - which is, of course, the marriage ceremony. I'm describing the general scenes of a marriage function. I hope we all have the same kind of functions.

In our place, wedding ceremonies can last from one day to five days. It depends on the place and varies from culture to culture. I am talking about the Indian marriages. At times, a one-day ceremony is quite hectic for everyone. And it's hardly possible to devote time to everything calmly. The parts of the process get hampered, or you cannot attend to the guests properly. That's why, many parties prefer at least a two-day ceremony. Some cultures follow the five-day ceremony, where each process is given enough time - like one day at least.

@grenery8 Hahaha... As a matter of fact, who will be stressful when there is an event like marriage in one's house? It's a time to enjoy, meet relatives, and do all those activities that we otherwise don't do. But instead of calling in stressful, I'll call it tiring. These activities take a lot of energy and one feels drained out later. And it's not that there is crowd on all the five days. Most part of the ceremony takes place with only the family members and close friends. There are only a select few. The "crowd" is there on the main marriage day. And by the way, who has this much time to spend - five days...

@abhi_bangal that is both impressive and stressful.for people who don't like crowds,5 days would seem like a torture

What a coincidence my friend! Even my marriage has completed 16 years in last May. Looks like we are on the same path on at least a couple of things. Like, sometime back, you said you love to discuss cricket and that you found one such person in me. And secondly now this marriage thing Hahaha... I was just trying to gauge what the system there is and how it works like. I was not too much interested in the rents so I asked that question later. Yes as you said the Purchasing Power Parity is definitely going to be different between the US and India. I would have simply calculated it taking the current dollar rate into consideration. But I was more interested in trying to know the culture and what the terms those people use like we use here. We know how the Indian marriage culture works. Like we invite guests, we offer food in the form of refreshment or anything you might call that. And finally the bride is seen off to her new home. In some cultures in India the marriage function carries on for at least 4 to 5 days. I was more interested to know how the US culture works in this way. If those people invite guests, how they offer food, what kind of methods they follow etc. Your answer actually threw more light on the rents thing. As you mentioned the couple of rates and I think those might be there in more developed cities like tier one or tier two cities in India. Anyway, I came to know a few more things than expected.