The Bride And The Bridegroom

" yet ye say Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously : yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. " Malachi 2 :14

The bride is surely made ready for the man, as soon as a dowry has been paid on her head, from that time she became the bride. The woman is now a bride of the man because a bride price has been paid on her head. That is when the woman is publicly introduced to friends and relatives as the bride of the man. That is the time every other man who might be a friend or had interest in her ,has to concede to the fact that ,the woman is now a married woman. 

Having become the bride of another man, who has already paid the bride price. During such times the ex-lover or former boy friend must know and accept the fact that the woman is now the wife of some one else. The bridegroom is also used to show that this is the man that has paid the bride price on the woman making her his bride. That is when the man assumes authority as the head over the woman and at the same time taking responsibility of the bride. 

The bridegroom is now given the physical and  spiritual oversight over the bride. At this juncture the woman's family, parents and relatives relinquished all their responsibilities over her life and hand it over to the bridegroom as they give her hand in marriage to him. The man is therefore seen as the proud owner of the bride and for that matter is said to be the bridegroom. 

The woman has to now honour the bridegroom with all his conjugal right as a husband in her life, having paid the necessary bride price and all matrimonial protocols observed.