Are there Igbo families in the diaspora that don't drag their inlaws to their village for marriage?

My friend and I were having this conversation in yankee and it seems like every igbo girl we have both spoken to in yankee about marriage always mentions that they have to go back to their village in naija to do trad marriage.

These are girls and guys whose families are here in the US.
So it makes very little financial sense to transport both families ($1500 - $2000 USD ticket per person) for everyone involved to go to her village in Naija just to do a wedding, when everyone needed for the wedding by both families is already here. They say it is their culture and there is nothing that can be done about it.

It seems like these sorts of unneccessary expenditures are to be expected when considering igbo girls for marriage in the US.
I don't see other cultures like yoruba having this problem. They do it where they the 2 families are.
Are there actually igbo families that don't over-do this culture thing out in the diaspora?

Posted: at 5-09-2018 06:54 PM (6 years ago) | Newbie

Well they should all continue.
These are unwise backward practices to still be doing in an era such as this there there is a scarcity of men even interested in marriage to begin with.

Posted: at 5-09-2018 07:47 PM (6 years ago) | Newbie

Sorry my friend, but It is exactly this sort of thinking(?) that explains why we do not progress as a nation.

Posted: at 5-09-2018 08:04 PM (6 years ago) | Newbie

Nigerian frindz n family have to eat their rice n ewu head

Posted: at 6-09-2018 07:50 AM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac