section_path: Economic considerations
section_name: Economic considerations
paragraph_text: Economic considerations
  
  The financial aspects of marriage vary between cultures and have changed over time.
  
  In some cultures, dowries and bride wealth continue to be required today. In both cases, the financial arrangements are usually made between the groom (or his family) and the bride's family; with the bride often not being involved in the negotiations, and often not having a choice in whether to participate in the marriage.
  
  In Early modern Britain, the social status of the couple was supposed to be equal. After the marriage, all the property (called "fortune") and expected inheritances of the wife belonged to the husband.