Mahmoud Siddiq - Cairo
The wedding ceremony of the Egyptians is celebrated with a candy born to the Fatimid state. The bride and the horse are still a traditional symbol of this celebration, where Khatib presents his bride with a bride and presents him as a horse on the birthday of the Prophet. The father also gives his daughter a bride and presents his son with a horse.
But the price tsunami - which in recent years has hit all the goods around the Egyptians - has also hit birth candy prices. Although prices have not risen this year compared to last year's prices, turnout is weak due to the economic situation and poor purchasing power of the pound.
According to Fatima, one of the candy vendors, the demand for the traditional birth bride has become virtually non-existent as a result of the emergence of new forms of batteries, which have multiple uses. According to Fatima, the bride has reached LE 250, representing about 17% of Egypt's minimum wage. .
The owners of the candy pavilions (temporary shops set up on this occasion) complain of the lack of customers, most of them come to watch and leave without buying, which led vendors to sell sweets instead of the kilo as they used to.