Sir: A marriage in a country like Pakistan is an occasion where people spend lavishly. Even those hailing from the middle class consider it an opportunity to display their fortunes in the form of dresses, jewelry and great dinners. Nowadays, a new trend has been set where people find more convenience to arrange the wedding ceremony at marriage halls. Most of the people know the importance of food wastage but when it comes to a wedding ceremony, they forget that many people are food-insecure. As they want their weddings and dinners exceptional so they prepare plenty of dishes so that guests can enjoy sumptuous meals. Ultimately it results in the wastage of food. On the other side, people at wedding ceremonies accumulate a heavy quantity of food in their plates in fear that next time they will not get a chance to get more food. In this way, leftover food is thrown into the garbage According to recent research, approximately 40 percent of the food prepared for weddings is wasted. We live in a third world country where more than 40 percent people live below the poverty line, hardly earn even a square meal a day and sleep on an empty stomach. I request people to learn the best use of leftover food. At least use the food by giving it to the needy and poor people or to encourage orphanage or shanty homes to pick up the refrigerated food because hapless people know the real value of food. HUNAINA ISRAR Karachi