dh's niece (Hindu) is getting married - question about sari

[soapysuds]

My eldest SIL has just phoned to say her daughter is getting married - great news, v pleased for niece.

SIL has also told me that it is Hindu custom for her brothers to buy their niece a sari for her wedding.

I'm happy for DH to buy his niece a sari for her wedding if that's the case BUT we have found out quite a few times from DH's wider family that his two sisters tend to be quite generous in their "interpretation" of traditions which involve others putting their hands in their pockets. I don't remember DH's brother's wife getting saris from her family when she married him, although she did get several from her new PIL.

Is SIL exaggerating? She knows that of all the family DH knows the least about Hindu traditions and, as I say, this has been commented on in the past.

Or is she right and I do have a fab trip to a sari shop in my future??

Bumping this for the evening crew. If no one can help I'll email my cousin in India, but it's bedtime there right now.

it's a real tradition, but not always followed, so up to you really.

Just seen this, got distracted by RL! Thanks Otherside and oranges.

I had a feeling it might be something like you've said oranges, so I think we'll make our wedding gift a cash one, a few weeks before the wedding, so she can get herself a sari if she likes, or whatever else she might want/need.

Don't know who I'd ask if I couldn't check these things on MN!