A dejected Bahraini failed to win the heart of his bride-to-be with a shawarma wedding day surprise and not only ended up losing in love … but also in law.
A court rejected his request to get back his dowry as he did not allow his fiancée to organise the event as promised after three years of engagement.
Instead, the 30-year-old Bahraini splashed out BD2 on shawarmas for their big day at his residence in April claiming the pandemic killed off plans to stage a bigger bash.
The Bahraini filed a case at the Sunni Sharia Court requesting back his BD5,000 from his former fiancée after he claimed she had refused to marry him.
Lawyer Fowzia Janahi, representing the 27-year-old Bahraini woman, said that the man failed to allow his fiancée to make the wedding arrangements as promised.
“The man said that he gave his fiancée BD5,000 dowry and they were engaged for three years,” read the court ruling. “He agreed to have a wedding party at a hotel, however, he said that he could not carry out his promise due to Covid-19.”
The court heard that he refused to allow his sweetheart to participate in planning an alternative wedding event staged at his home – which prompted the court to kick out the case.
“He organised a small wedding event at his house due to Covid-19 rules and restrictions,” added the ruling.
“However, he did not allow his fiancée to choose anything and, therefore, the court ruled that he cannot have his dowry back.
“In addition, his fiancée had paid for the engagement party at her home.”
Ms Janahi said that when he settled on a small spread of shawarmas to share with his fiancée she felt it was too hard to swallow and a ‘ridiculous’ gesture of true love and romance.
“They had an agreement that they would have a wedding but he ended up buying shawarma sandwiches for BD2 and informed his fiancée that the wedding was at his home,” she told the GDN.
She also claimed that he ignored her for months before the big day.
“My client called him daily to try to meet him so they could organise and plan the wedding together, but he always said that he was too busy with his friends,” she said.
“He then bought the shawarma sandwiches and told her that was part of the preparations.
“It’s ridiculous that he wanted her to marry him on those terms or give him back his BD5,000 dowry. Having a BD2 shawarma sandwich as a celebration is not appropriate for a wedding.”
Generally, the shawarma, a popular dish consisting of a meat cut into thin slices, stacked in a cone-like shape, and roasted on a slowly-turning vertical spit, served with a tangy sauce and chips to give it a bit of oomph, is not regarded as an aphrodisiac, say chefs, but more of a ‘comfort food’.
The jilted groom-to-be ate alone on what should have been the happiest day of his life.
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