You can tell what will happen at a Nigerian wedding before it happens. Most times, I laugh when i see our Nigerian ladies excited about their up coming wedding events. You will hear them say they want their day to be special and look like no other. Sad that Im not a party person, but the few Nigerian weddings i have attended over the years have all been the same. The program is always like, Early Saturday morning, the bride and groom go to separate salons, They keep in touch while they are coordinating the days activities on phone. When they finish, they all enter their rented or borrowed cars and meet up in an appointed place. Then they sort out who will travel in which car. At about mid day, they all arrive at church and soon the priest starts the service, which is comprised of a few people, the church choir( that is if they were paid) and the sound man. The couple then soon says the vows written in the famous prayer book and are soon seen off by the priest. At about 4:00pm, the bride, groom and maids are in some gardens taking pictures. (mostly Sheraton gardens) They arrive at the reception at about 4:30pm to find a tired congregation of people, because for some reason, the MC and the DJ are boring. The bridal entourage creates an excitement on peoples faces the lasts until they all take their seats The MC starts inviting people to go eat. as usual, the people on the high table go first. then the others yawn on until they are called upon to join the queue. In the meantime, some local artist is singing some local song. Soon it will be time for speeches and a whole lot of people will come on stage and say a lot of pointless sentences. Then some smartly dressed ladies will be called upon to pop open the party poppers and help the bride and groom cut the cake. My worst part of all wedding parties comes next the bride sits on the grooms laps and they drink from each others glasses and eat from each others hands. Then soon the hosts will give their closing speeches and the story will end. Of course in recent years some people have put some creativity in the whole event by doing a prerecorded broadcast of their life and casting it on a borrowed projector. My question is, where is it written that all Nigerian weddings should have the same procedure? Is it a government policy? Are things like cake cutting and speeches from in-laws and family members a must for these events? Nigerians cant we do better than that? Dont tell me your wedding is going to be unique if you are planning to do the things i just said. Im yet to see some really cool people re-define wedding events. Lets all support change.#ThatsWhatIThink Good Morning Peepz #Valedu #Valedictorians Assisted by - Uchenna Igolo
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:47:24 +0000
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