Lawyer blames media for obsession with celebrities and glamorous lifestyles and says starting off your married life in debt is stupid.
KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyer and social activist Azhar Harun, has slammed a credit company for offering exorbitant wedding loans to those intending to marry as it results in newlyweds starting a chapter of their lives together in debt.
He, like many other social media users in Malaysia were outraged at credit company Aeon Credit Service (M) Berhad for advertising a RM100,000 ”dream wedding” loan in a local newspaper recently.
The loan was offered to Malaysians earning as little as RM800 per month, and required no guarantor.
Netizens, reacting to the advertisement, left disparaging comments directed at the lavishness of modern weddings and the predatory nature of the offer, which allowed future married couples to spend beyond their means on one relatively inconsequential day in their lives.
The full page English-language advertisement was taken out in an English-language newspaper, and showed a Malay-Muslim couple in their wedding costumes looking lovingly into each other’s eyes.
In a brief Facebook post, written in both Bahasa Melayu and English, Art echoed the sentiments of fellow netizens, and said, “This shows just how sick a section of our society has become.”
He also blamed the mass media for promoting celebrities and “glamorous” lifestyles, which he perceived as “skin deep” and false to begin with.
Questioning the logic of taking a RM100,000 loan for what the marketers described as a “dream wedding”, he asked: “Isn’t getting married to your dream girl/guy enough to make your wedding a dream wedding?”
Obviously disgusted at the way young couples who succumbed to the offer were being milked of their money, he said, “Sick. Really stupid sick.”
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