The remarkable story is recorded by the India Today. The newspaper reports that the wedding was to take place on April 22 in the village of Malkapur in the Indian state of Maharashtra. All preparations had been made and the wedding ceremony was to take place at 4 pm.
The bride and her family continued to wait for the groom to arrive, but he didn’t arrive until 8 p.m. “The groom and his friends were drunk and came to the ceremony at 8 p.m. instead of 4 p.m., where they also started fighting. We married my daughter to one of our relatives,” said the bride’s mother.
Arranged marriage is very common in India. About 93 percent of Indians are married off.