Show cut cost of brides to spur weddings jerusalem believed to be the result of eloquent speeches in the mosques in which the orators called up fathers to reduce the marriage prices of their daughters no less than local marriages have been celebrated in during the last two months the high dowry which the fathers of were demanding for the hands of their daughters in marriage had driven an increasingly large number of young men to seek brides in cyprus where the demands are much more modest the price of a wife in palestine is between and 2500 A good wife in cyprus costs between 25 and |