Year prior to the due date
Groom: I want to marry you.
Bride: I want to marry you too
Parents: You can only marry if you convert.
Groom: I will.
Bride: He will
Parents: We shall see
Months prior to the due date
He does
She is pleased
They are pleased yet suspicious of its intentions
Two weeks before the wedding
The groom gets a piercing
Two days before the wedding
The groom arrives at the house of the bride's parents to bring the dowry with a piercing in his nose
The family horrified do not say a thing but passes the message to the wedding organisers so they can speak to the bride. The bride is tasked to talk to her future husband to not wear the piercing at the wedding.
Wedding day
The groom arrives at the reception hall with the piercing in his nose.
The lead organisers are boiling inside.
They talk to the bride, she is boiling inside.
She has not talked to her husband.
The lead organisers take the courage to take him on a side.
He is told that if he does not take off his piercing, the ceremony cannot happen.
He takes off the piece of jewellery with resistance.
The ceremony happens.
The ceremony finishes
he puts back the piercing on.
All is well.
I am because we are full of conflicts