"The country's Social Behavior Reform Act 1976 bars marriage parties from having more than 51 invitees." I am no particular fan of Girija's family, or for that matter, Pyar Jung's family (though I wish them all well, and congrats to the newly weds!), but let's think about this issue here: It's the law -- like the one above -- that needs to be scrapped altogether. Conceptually, who gives any government anywhere any right to monitor the number of people invited to a private party? Is counting the number of guests invited to a private party even the job of a government? [Thye Act was passed in 1976, by the then Rastra Panchayat, at the height of the first wave of corruption scandals during the Panchayat times . . . how relevant is such a law for present times?] As it is, Nepal has long remained a a country where the rule of law does not matter. Much of that is due to the fact that many of our laws -- family laws, corporate laws, criminal laws -- are khattam, jhoor, unrealistic and just plain stupid, designed largely to harrass and to control people rather than to facilitate them to do their work without hurting others. No wonder then, the more rules we have in place in Nepal, the more easily they get broken by all and sundry. oohi ashu