Asking your partner’s father for permission to propose is an outdated sexist conference rooted in a time when women were regarded as property – and there are far more contemporary alternatives Christmas,as anyone on social media will be painfully aware, is peak engagement time. It’s only a matter of hours before the grinning “I assign a ring on it” diamond selfies start, and if indeed they haven’t been cluttering up your news feed already. Which is why I want to use this romantic season of goodwill to address one of the more hideous aspects of engagement etiquette: asking the bride’s dad for her hand in marriage.
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Source: theguardian.com