A Call to Consider the Issue of Wedding Halls and Their Prohibition

Your Eminence, in reality, many people get married without wedding halls. Wedding halls have become a place for trade, and they have also become part of the bridal gift or part of the cost of the bridal gift. I do not know your Eminence’s opinion on calling for people to do without them and closing them down, since they have become a door of trade and also impose a burden on those who want to cover their religion?
Answer: In any case, if they were abolished and did not exist, people would do without them and people would be relieved of the burden of extravagance. However, closing them down now, after they have become established, is a matter that requires consideration. It needs a thorough study by the authorities and the scholars to see what is most beneficial. This is because some people may be compelled to use some of them for many reasons that lead them to this, such as having many relatives and the difficulty of not inviting them to the wedding or the occasion. They are thus compelled to rent one of the wedding halls for this purpose, because they know that announcing the marriage is required, and they want to invite their relatives and those neighbors they hold dear, but they do not have houses suitable for that. For this reason, they may need these palaces. If they did not exist, people would be content with a little and get by. But their existence has become a cause of extravagance. Allah is the One to be sought for help. Yes.
The presenter: We leave this topic, perhaps Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) will open it up for you, Your Eminence, and you will discuss it, if Allah wills, and a solution will be found, as many people complain about it.
The Shaykh: Yes, Allah is the One to be sought for help. We ask Allah for ease. We ask Allah for ease. Yes.