Islamic Wedding Dress

Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The best wedding is that upon which the least trouble and expense is bestowed" (Mishkat).

Yet, every year, we attend or organize weddings that involve the extreme opposite. These practices range from holding the event in ostentatious banquet halls to doling out overpriced trinkets as gifts for guests.

Everyone wants their wedding day to be special, and it should be. But spending countless hours and dollars to do so is not only unhealthy from a spiritual perspective. It also places unnecessary community pressure on future brides, grooms and their parents to match the trend. It's time we revived the Sunnah of simpler weddings. Here are a couple of ways to start.

1. Bargain for your banquet hall
2. Keep the menu simple, simple, simple
3. Wear something “sentimentally borrowed”
4. Give new meaning to the term “no boxed gifts, please”
5. Drop or scale back those guest gifts
6. Print your own invitations and consider the email option
7. Skip the limo