Bride price, also known as bride wealth,'s an amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the groom. (Compare dowry, which's paid to the groom, or used by the bride to help establish the new household, and dower, which's property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage.) In the anthropological literature, bride price has often been explained in market terms, as payment made in exc… (More on Brideprice)