Wearing fake eyelashes
cost a Saudi groom his marriage as the bride’s family called off the engagement
ceremony, a media report said on Thursday.
At the ceremony in Riyadh,
the bride’s brother noticed that the groom was having tears in his eyes so he
approached him to know if he had any problem.
At this, the groom
removed the eyelashes and put them in his pocket. He explained that it was a
actually a bet by his brothers to put the fake eyelashes, exactly like the
bride did, Gulf News reported.
The brother-in-law,
however, became very upset and swore that the engagement would be called off.
No laughing matter
“My brother tried to
calm him down and to explain that it was merely a joke. However, a few minutes
later, the bride’s father and brothers asked him to leave the hall despite the
presence of the marriage officers and guests,” the groom’s sister Nada was
quoted as saying by Saudi news site Al Marsad.
“My family was not
aware of what happened, but when we told our mother, she felt so bad that we
had to go to a hospital. We have lost a bride because of the fake eyelashes
challenge.
‘Terrible evening for
us’
“It was a terrible
evening for us all because of the stupidity of my brothers. They had challenged
the groom to wear fake eyelashes in his engagement ceremony and as he did not
want to lose the challenge, he did it,” she added.
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