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Hiring marriage portion
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VietNamNet Bridge – With only VND2 million ($100), Lan made her parents happy as they could hold a big gold necklace to put on their daughter’s neck at her wedding anniversary.

As the price for gold is escalating in Vietnam, Lan said her parents couldn’t afford to give gold as her marriage portion as tradition. She decided to hire the gold necklace from a jewelry shop.

Hong, a worker, from Lac Trung Street, Hanoi, who is about to get married, told VietNamNet that she and her fiancé thought very carefully and decided to buy a pair of wedding rings and hire a gold necklace and a gold bracelet as marriage portions of the two families.

“We have to buy the wedding rings, otherwise we would have nothing to exchange at the wedding anniversary,” Hong said.

Hong and Lan are among many young people who went to jewelry shops in Hanoi to hire wedding jewelry.

This year, this service has been booming. A staff at a jewelry shop in Tran Khat Chan Street, Hanoi, said since mid-October, when the gold price has been continuously increasing, hundreds of couples have hired jewelries at his shop
He said the leasing prices range between VND500,000 and VND2 million for a set of, including a bracelet, a necklace and a pair of ear-rings, for 2-3 days.

For this price parents can be happy for their daughters will not feel guilty because they can’t give their daughter gold as marriage portion on their most important days.

The service has also gone online. Young couples can register to hire not only jewelry but also clothes and get other wedding services from online shops.

However, things don’t always go smoothly.

A family in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, hired a dozen of gold necklaces for their relatives to wear at their daughter’s wedding ceremony. However, the relatives who are old women from the rural areas thought that the necklaces are fake jewelry so after the wedding ceremony, they took off the necklaces and put them right on the tables. The bride’s mother burst into tears after the wedding because seven necklaces had disappeared, with the value equivalent to seven taels of gold.

Thu Ly