A wedding ceremony is a joyous event I always look forward to attend. I have attended a series of weddings in the past and what excite me more is the joyful smile on the face of the couple. The atmosphere is always saturated with joy and happiness.
Amidst all these beautiful things that I admire when attending a wedding ceremony. There are still some things I detest in nowadays wedding ceremonies.
Early this year, I attended a wedding ceremony, the atmosphere of the event was colourful and beautiful. The bride was Yoruba. They started the event with the Traditional wedding. The annoying part is that the engager wasted a lot of time by asking both the bride and groom for money. To make it worse, She gave the bride a tray and asked her to start asking the guest to drop money inside the tray. After the bride went around to collect money using the tray. The engager said the money the bride collected was for her, everyone was surprised we all expect the money should be given to the bride why must it be the engager's money. I was told that before the wedding day, she was already paid for her service, then why was she requesting additional money?
Another thing I detest in recent wedding ceremonies is the fashion sense. All in the name of the latest fashion trend. You will see many people dressing half-naked. Some bride go to the extent of showing off the cleavage of their breast. I was at a wedding recently, the bride selected some ladies who are called Aso-ebi ladies. The dressing of these girls are nothing to write home about. It was purely a show of nudity. When it was time for the bride and Aso-ebi ladies to enter the church venue, you won't believe that the pastor of the church asked the ushers to give the Aso-ebi ladies wrappers to tie around themselves so as to cover the naked part of their body. It was really a funny one as most guests started laughing at them as the ushers were giving them one wrapper each.
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I believe in decency and modesty in dressing. I watched a funny clips online, where a bride's two boobs flew out of the dress while dancing at the reception. Imagine that kind of embarrassment. I wonder how the husband will feel at that moment. It wasn't a funny sight to behold. Look at the shock on people's faces. Even the Master of ceremony(MC) was speechless for a while.😂
One of the things i always detest at wedding parties is the lateness of either the bride or groom to the venue of the event. It is always frustrating when the whole guest have to wait for the bride or groom. This act of lateness is mostly common with the bride. I have attended a church wedding before where the bride was an hour late all in the name of making up her face. Imagine the pressure and anxiety on the face of the groom and his family while expecting the bride. Makeup should not be the reason why a bride will come late on her wedding day such reasons are not justifiable.
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Lastly, During Reception, i noticed most ceremonies are not well organised in serving food. I detest the act of sitting down watching someone eating close to me while i have not been served for hours. It look somehow. I once attend a wedding reception where we were asked to pass the food to the next person and when it was my turn the server said he will bring another set of food. All those who were sitting next to me were eating while i was there folding my hands expecting the server to bring mine only for me to wait for hours, in fact, does sitting next to me finished eating and even collected extra while i was sitting down expecting the server to bring mine. It was just like a set up. After few hours of waiting i decided to go home since I was feeling hungry. As soon as i stood up, the server saw me and said he had forgotten he promised to bring my food and pleaded if I could eat only rice alone since both meat and fish has finished. Please, if you are in my shoes will you accept such? I replied him No, that I'm actually about going home. I believe a wedding reception should be organized and provision should be made for all guest invited.