He failed to add 15+6, and she wasn't having it.

[CK_John]

Here’s an easy math problem: two lovebirds, minus one bride, is one lonely groom. That’s what happened after an Indian bride ditched her soon-to-be groom at their wedding ceremony for failing to answer a simple arithmetic problem.

At her wedding ceremony in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Wednesday, the bride posed the following math problem to the man she was due to wed: 15 + 6 = ?

The groom answered 17, and the bride fled. The groom’s family tried to get her back, but she refused to marry someone who couldn’t add.

Link:
http://time.com/3743971/india-bride-groom-math-test/

Good for her

[FLPanhandle]

1. I could handle the math

Just glad my bride didn't require me to diagram a sentence before the wedding.

[FSogol]

2. How'd the groom do in the swimsuit competition?

[evirus]

4. The parka was a nice shade of red

[sendero]

3. Did she have to wait.....

.... until the day of the wedding to ask that question?

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. India still has quite a lot of arranged marriages; it's very possible they hadn't met, before (n/t)

[ProfessorGAC]

13. On Radio, I Heard That Is What It Was

An arranged marriage. And, it was a sports talk show doing sort of a "new of the weird" type thing. They were clearly reading it off reports at the time. So, i'd say there is a good chance it's accurate.

[Xyzse]

6. Education is very important in India.

In fact, many from India go to some of the Ivy Leagues in the US as their "Security School" in case they do not get in the school of their choice there.

Saying that, good for her.

[Fred Sanders]

7. It was an arranged marriage, they were not "lovebirds". Probably had just met, THAT is the outrage.

Religious extremism exists in India as it does in America - though more widespread and there are just more folks to have more cults - resulting in systematic female enslavement using a corrupted version of a religion.

Do the real math. Look at your own back yard before mocking the back yards of others.

[packman]

8. Funny - but goes to show times are a'changen in India

At one time a few goats short of a dowry was enough to call the whole thing off - now they are getting more cerebral. I pity the guys in the next few years having to take a MET (Marriage Eligibility Test) and scoring a certain grade to be marriage material.

[riderinthestorm]

11. Female infanticide has caused a huge gender imbalance in India

the women can be pickier.

Furthermore, arranged marriages are more about the contract than any kind of love. If the guy lied on an essential part of the contract (ie his educational accomplishments which would have implications for his future earning potential), I say it's perfectly all right for her to walk away.

Of course, he might have gotten it wrong on purpose to avoid marrying her!!

[Paladin]

9. Sounds like he got off easy. (nt)

[etherealtruth]

10. completely off topic, but .... the mehndi .....

.... on the woman's hands in the photo accompanying the story is incredible!

[PersonNumber503602]

12. I'm going to venture to guess this was an arranged marriage

In which case, I think it's a little bit more understandable. I'm pretty sure this isn't like a couple who have been together for several years, and then on the wedding day the bride asks the groom to solve for x.