the lavish and grandeur nature of the marriage ceremony was unprecedented as at then. the streets were so croweded that two peoplewere trampled to death.
in the last century, some uvbi were worthy of note i.e., orhimwiamen who ovonramwen betrothed to agbo obaseki while on exile in calabar, ighiwiyisi the eldest child of eweka who married mc oliver a police man from onitsha, ebose the second daughter of eweka who the oba also gave out to agbo obaseki in june 1919.
princess egbebalakhamen and proncess adesuwa both children of akenzua got married in the 50s to young benin educated elites of that era. adesuwa on her own has risen to the pinnacle of her academic career. princess ikiuwa-inneh became the number one civil servant in edo state. oba erediawa eldest daughterhas risen to the top position in her profession.