Fewer giving gold as gifts at weddings


GEORGE TOWN: Weddings were always times when parents, siblings, friends and relatives would present marrying couples with gold jewellery.

Not anymore. Now, only parents and siblings still continue to grit their teeth and buy gold jewellery for newly-weds. Friends and relatives prefer cash packets.

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