A: I have previously replied that it is not permissible to exaggerate in the cost of wedding banquets or any thing else. The owner of the Walimah (wedding banquet) should be careful to serve the necessary kinds of food. Needless food stuff should be avoided. Any remaining food should be given to charitable societies or poor workers who may accept them. The remaining food should be delivered to those who could benefit from it; it should not be thrown in the garbage near impure things. The food should be delivered to the needy. If there are no needy people, the remaining food should be put in a pure place, not on roads or with impurities, so that some people or animals may come to eat from it. This is a way to keep food from being desecrated when there is no one to take it. However, if there are workers or poor people, the remaining food should be delivered to them. It could also be dried and transferred to the needy or used as fodder for animals. Being economic and thrifty will decrease the amount of leftover food.