"Marriage customs have undergone many profound changes in the past few centuries. Contemporary American brides and grooms don't meet for the first time at the ceremony, and the bride doesn't come attached to a dowry of livestock from her father. But while we've left many antiquated customs behind us, one aggravating convention holds on: the wedding gift. "*

It's custom to give a couple household gifts when they get married, but is the tradition outdated? One writer makes the case that since people are a little older and more established when they marry in modern times, that those gifted toasters, pans, and comforters are a little redundant. Is gift-giving itself overdone? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

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