Customary marriage is practiced by people in much of Africa and in such places as Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands as well as among the Goajiro Indians in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela, to mention a few.
इसमें यह सम्मिलित होता है कि वर का परिवार वधु के परिवार को कन्या - मूल्य दे ।