One popular traditional Saudi story that is often repeated to teach wisdom is the one about the grandmother who advises her granddaughter who is about to get married to wear a necklace made of animal manure. The grandmother justifies this by telling the granddaughter that the husband will be too happy on the wedding night to pay attention to the smelly necklace. “When your husband asks you about the necklace, you should know that he is now focusing and that you should start wearing nice clothes and real gold necklaces,” the grandmother says. I recently read about a newlywed man who accused his wife's family of cheating him and hiding her ugliness by having her appear with a lot of makeup at the wedding ceremony. He even filed a lawsuit against the family. The husband, an Arab, accused his wife of fraud and treason because she hid her ugly face from him and used far too much makeup. He was devastated and felt depressed when he saw what his wife really looked like the next day. He was literally shocked and thought that the person lying next to him was not his wife, but rather a stranger. He could not even recognize her. In his complaint, he demanded the family pay him $20,000 in damages. There is a connection between this incident and what is happening in our society during weddings. We have similar scenarios when a poor husband appears in a luxury car on his wedding night. Of course, it is not his car and he must have rented it or borrowed it from a friend. The same poor husband usually uses the title “sheikh”, which is often used for affluent people, before his father's name on the wedding invitation cards. He also serves a fancy banquet to the guests. I recently saw a YouTube video of some guests who were angry because the husband did not serve them meat and rice for dinner. They even hit the husband because of this.