One must be very vulnerable to shop for wedding clothes before meeting the prospective groom.
He would approach young women as a prospective groom, go on to marry them and spend the first night of matrimony with the bride.
The prospective groom's father offers his second son's hand in marriage to Shakti.
There's nothing wrong with that, of course, if the bride is in a position to pick and choose among prospective grooms.
Despite this, Simi is often rejected by her prospective grooms.
It drives him nuts when the prospective groom arrives with his mother.
Sometimes a prospective groom will work in the bride's family's household to earn the right to marry her.
After all, whatever could go wrong usually did, and the last thing she needed would have been to appear underdressed beside her prospective groom.
Mostly, although no one was about to admit it, because they were already well past the prospective groom's bedtime.
It was the prospective groom, saying they did not show up because they had to shop that night.