In some parts of Igbo Land, it is a taboo to pay a pregnant woman’s bride price.

In some parts of Enugu state, it is a taboo to pay a pregnant woman’s bride price.

The man may come with his people to marry her,

They are permitted to perform every other traditional rites,

But they must keep the bride price until after the woman is delivered of her baby.

Then, the man is to come back in the company of his kinsmen with jars of palm wine and other items the brides family request.

He is to pay his bride’s dowry on that day.

Only then, will he be celebrated as a bonafide son in-law.

In the case where he fails to return with his kinsmen to pay his bride’s dowry,

It is considered that he and the woman are simply befriending themselves.

If anything happens to the man, the children he had with the woman becomes the children of her father.