MAKKAH — Ahmed Bamwaih, a Saudi citizen, has taught the society a lesson in doing away with extravagance and unjustified expenditure in weddings and other social occasions when he celebrated his own son's wedding in a courtyard of mosque. Bamwaih celebrated his son's wedding at the courtyard of Latifah Halwani mosque in Um Al-Joud district in Makkah. "I invited the worshippers for dinner at the courtyard of the mosque after the Isha prayers on the occasion of the wedding of my eldest son Mohammed," he said. The jubilant father believes that this is a good method of avoiding extravagance in such occasions during which large quantities of food are thrown in the garbage. "I was keen to distribute the leftover food among the poor and needy in the neighborhood," he said. The worshippers commended Bamwaih initiative and asked all the fathers and male guardians to follow suit so as to cut the tremendous costs of wedding. "I was pained to see large quantities of food go down the drain after the wedding parties. This unjustified extravagance must stop and the excess food has to go to the poor and needy," he said.
