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Hahaha!! That is too funny!

i second sally

That’s awesome!

Your dad sounds like my dad - LOVE it!!

Your story is kinda cute, but I can’t quite tell if your dad is joking around or not. If he isn’t, I wouldn’t have encouraged the sexist idea that your hand is his to give.

When my fiance and I were in the prelims of deciding to get engaged, my father said the same thing, too funny.

Awesome! Your family sounds very fun.

Well, technically - a dowry is money (or in this case, livestock) that is given to the groom’s family by the bride’s family. This is typically done in civilizations where the population is too high, thus the value of a woman is lower. If these society’s, having five daughters you have to pay to “get rid” of costly - those are the ones normally plagued with female infantcide.

On the other hand, there have been society’s - usually where the population is low - where the groom’s family must provider a dower to bride’s family. Because the value of a woman is so high, the bride’s family seeks compensation for their loss.

So…all notions of fertility aside, to be offered a dower of three cows represents the high value of the bride.

All of this dorkiness comes from my total love my college cultural anthropolgy class.

My father did the same thing, only he asked for two cows and a goat. I’ve been told (since I wasn’t there) that the conversation went down like this. Dad: “What’s in it for me.” FI: “Well… what would you like?” Dad: “Two cows and a goat.” FI: “Seriously??” Dad: (laughing to hard to respond)
However, the story was relayed to me as “two cows and a donkey”!!! Poor guy. My FI was so nervous when he asked my parents for my hand, that he miss the humor of it all!