{"id":21361,"date":"2024-06-25T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21361"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:09:30","slug":"charity-hosts-mass-wedding-to-promote-simplicity-culture-107-couples-marry-in-kabul-ghazni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/06\/charity-hosts-mass-wedding-to-promote-simplicity-culture-107-couples-marry-in-kabul-ghazni\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity hosts mass wedding to promote simplicity, culture: 107 couples marry in Kabul, Ghazni\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211;\u00a0A mass wedding ceremony for 72 young couples has been held on Tuesday, by the &#8220;Panah-e Etrat&#8221; charity organization in western Kabul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The organizers stated that the event aimed to eliminate undesirable customs, promote culture, and encourage mass weddings in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Mozafari, one of the organizers, mentioned that the event cost one million Afghanis. &#8220;We organized this healthy cultural event because excessive expenses have become burdensome for our people. We also want to help those who, for various reasons, couldn&#8217;t hold their wedding ceremonies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Several couples who participated in the group wedding expressed their inability to afford individual ceremonies due to economic hardships.<\/p>\n<p>Ghulam Sakhi, a newlywed, shared that he got engaged eight years ago but could not afford a wedding ceremony until now. &#8220;I wanted to hold my wedding, but the conditions weren&#8217;t good, and our financial situation was weak. We ask families to refrain from demanding dowries,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zainab, a new bride, urged young people and their families to avoid extravagant customs in weddings. &#8220;Our request is for families to celebrate their children&#8217;s weddings simply and avoid excessive spending. Group weddings are beneficial for us in every way,&#8221; she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, 35 young couples in Ghazni also celebrated their group wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Sayed Gul Ahmad Motamedi, the organizer of the Ghazni event, said that the costs were covered by charitable individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Newlyweds in Ghazni welcomed the group wedding concept and called for more such ceremonies to eliminate undesirable customs in weddings.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, due to rising unemployment and high wedding costs, many young people have opted for group weddings. The first mass wedding was held in 2008 in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh&#8217;s capital, and has since spread to many other provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211;\u00a0A mass wedding ceremony for 72 young couples has been held on Tuesday, by the &#8220;Panah-e Etrat&#8221; charity organization in western Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,16,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-report","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":68,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21363,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21361\/revisions\/21363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}