If after the wedding you have to move into your husband’s house, then the question will inevitably arise about what to take with you, what is included in the bride’s dowry and whether it needs to be prepared in advance.
Despite the fact that many begin to live together even before marriage, the issue of dowry remains relevant to this day. After all, from your wedding day you want to renew your life and bring something useful into your home. A dowry is a set of valuable things that can be useful in the household of a young family.
The tradition of collecting a dowry appeared a long time ago, when the role of a woman was only to keep the family hearth, raise children and provide coziness and comfort to her family.
Then it was customary to collect a dowry as soon as a daughter was born into the family, because one day she would leave her father’s house for her husband’s house. And since the woman did not work, she had to contribute to her family at least once in the form of a dowry.
Nowadays, women mostly work and contribute to the family in the form of salary. Therefore, the dowry is collected less and less. But the older generation, parents, and even more so grandparents, consider it obligatory to collect at least something for their children.
