May 26, 2014

Have you checked your Bride Price?

Lol, I thought to just share this hilarity that is Bride Price.com. If you don't know, a bride price is what your intending husband and his family are supposed to "pay" your father before you get married. The bride price amount is set by cultural traditions, but these days, it depends on the bride's parents and extended family. Some people ask for fabric, goats, etc (like for my wedding), and others ask for cars, power generators and what-have-you (thieves, I call them).

Anyways, some funny people decided to create a website to calculate your bride price, and my result was




There are advantages to being tall, or having light skin, gap teeth, cooking skills, American citizenship, etc. Hehe, have fun with it and tell me in the comments what YOUR bride price is.

Berry Dakara.

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14 comments:

  1. lmao.........
    This is my result.........
    Your bride price is NGN 607,500.00
    Super Premium Babe! Your bride price is going to cause a war in this Africa.
    The Beautiful Eagle's Blog

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  2. Mine is NGN 481,500...I calculated twice and the new one was NGN 1 million plus. I'm super premium sha
    Mylifeasmoby.blogspot.com

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  3. Imagine o berry after all my shakara, my bride price is N630,000. Chei just because i refuse to use whitenicious and fake my accent...LOL. Oh well, at least the bride price will cause wahala in Africa...LOL.

    Meanwhile some guy commented and said any girl who's bride price is over 1M would be on the shelf for a long long time..hahahaha.

    www.stylefash25.blogspot.com

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  4. Hah! This is surely entertaining. Mine was NGN 709,000.00. Babe! Your bride price is going to cause a war in this our Africa. What I find interesting is that the "price addition" for having a masters degree is high while having a doctorate causes the price to drop. Uh!
    I am sometimes ambivalent about the issue of bride price. I appreciate that it is a cultural thing, but I don't appreciate what it represents for me as a woman.

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    1. Your doctorate means that you're too intelligent, and of course, no man wants a too intelligent wife.

      Hehe, I always joke about bride price - it wasn't paid in full, here's your refund, can we do exchanges, layaways, etc. It made sense traditionally, because a man was taking another man's worker (bride) away from his house, and so he needed to pay the equal value for the work.

      Ah well, it was funny.

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  5. It is funny sha. Mine is NGN 457,500.00. I am vexed that there's no option for business owners and self-employed under the employment part. Are the saying young ladies don't usually own businesses?

    Anyway, the app is really innovative.

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    1. LOL, women shouldn't be entrepreneurs apparently.

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  6. Hmm!people can lie sha.i believe berry cos she will get points for accents and the likes.but mine was 118,000..The first one I did I got -200k or something.i quickly rejected it lol.my point is I have my masters,and a lawyer,gap toothed,fine face,prays very well and can cook, not dark,straight legs yet got that score,then why are some people lying.

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    1. Alas, I put neutral for accent, cos it's nowhere near American - not unless I turn it on, and even then it's Nigerican. People are so lying! The highest anyone can get is N1,020,000.

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  7. Berry wey my comment?

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    1. *sorry for the poor pidgin in advance*

      Ah, I don already approof now. You no dey see am for upstair? I don even answer.

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