Bride price

<p>Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, <a href="/facts/Bride_service/CzvG7HpP">bride service</a> or bride token, is <a href="/facts/Money/3BYGU6C8">money</a>, <a href="/facts/Property/F6bGqY2w">property</a>, or other form of <a href="/facts/Wealth/IkxfYrFc">wealth</a> paid by a <a href="/facts/Groom/Edejanmo">groom</a> or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be <a href="/facts/Married/foMxzuxl">married</a> to or is just about to marry. Bride dowry is equivalent to <a href="/facts/Dowry/YGfNV0Xy">dowry</a> paid to the groom in some cultures, or used by the bride to help establish the new household, and <a href="/facts/Dower/lSDbtBrL">dower</a>, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. Some cultures may practice both  simultaneously. Many cultures practiced bride dowry prior to existing records.
</p><p>The tradition of giving bride dowry is practiced in many <a href="/facts/East_Asia/D8yGVCQX">East Asian</a> countries, <a href="/facts/Eastern_Europe/f5CDGzNA">Eastern Europe</a>, the <a href="/facts/Middle_East/8CD6pLWv">Middle East</a>, parts of <a href="/facts/Africa/XkqQUP9s">Africa</a> and in some <a href="/facts/Pacific_Island/AxJ5sXWp">Pacific Island</a> societies, notably those in <a href="/facts/Melanesia/6NCwA1Sl">Melanesia</a>. The amount changing hands may range from a token to continue the traditional <a href="/facts/Ritual/EIJngpmf">ritual</a>, to many thousands of US dollars in some marriages in <a href="/facts/Thailand/GCUnN4JK">Thailand</a>, and as much as a $100,000 in exceptionally large bride dowry in parts of <a href="/facts/Papua_New_Guinea/RLaVlhFC">Papua New Guinea</a> where bride dowry is customary.
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