Traditional marriage ceremony differs from one tribe to another depending on their culture and beliefs. I couldn't pass off this opportunity to share with you all my experience of my twin brother's traditional marriage ceremony held a few days ago.
Both my twin brother and his wife are from the Eastern part of Nigeria, though the same tribe but different towns/villages with different cultures when it comes to marriage rites. After their intentions were made to both parents, an introduction date was fixed. On that day, my family presented some kola nuts and wine to officially ask for their daughter's hand in marriage.
The family of our bride presented to us a list of numerous items for us to get according to their tradition including the dowry payment. This is unlike our tradition but we had to follow their culture to have our awaited bride.🤗 On accepting the list, the date of the traditional marriage was fixed immediately and that's the marriage ceremony we celebrated a few days ago.
It was a great event and I was happy to learn about another culture over there!
My twin brother and I are on the set to go get our bride🤗
My family and other relatives and friends that accompanied us for the occasion arrived at the bride's family with a warm welcome. We presented all the items that were requested and the elders of the bride's family had a long indoor deliberation while accepting the items according to their culture.
The event started with an official greeting by the bride as tradition demands.
We the groom's family were well attended to with different kinds of food, both native delicacies, and our modern food with drinks depending on your choice.
After the official greetings come to the selling of eggs 🥚 and feeding of the egg by the bride and groom. It was a romantic session 🤩🤩
Before the cooked egg was opened, the groom launched it with plenty of money as requested and other friends too before they will allow him to leave the stage with his bride🤗🥰
Here comes a very sensitive part of their culture which is the almighty ancient pot of palm wine 🍶 🤩🤩
No wonder they demanded 45 gallons of palm wine from us..hahaha. This pot was filled to the brim with 45 gallons of palm wine and for the elder of the bride's family to bless the couple, they have to fetch a cup of palm wine from the pot according to their tradition and feed themselves with it but before that, the groom will uncover the palm wine with a reasonable amount of money, wow 😮.
The next stage was cutting the traditional cake.
This cake was made by the bride herself, she is a baker and an event planner and of course, she took out time to make this nice cake here. It was such a royal bite to me, so fluffy and delicious 🥰
I see love in their eyes while cutting the cake as well and I couldn't help but kept admiring them🤗
After the cutting of the cake, comes the dancing time and the spreading of money to the couple. It was an awesome experience full of amazing memories 🤭💃🎉
My twin brother couldn't contain his joy 😊 and was just laughing out so loud knowing that he is now taken with the love of his life.
The last phase of the event was handing over of the bride by his parents to my family. It was an emotional experience as the parents were already feeling the absence of their daughter but we promised them that their daughter is in safe hands 🤩🤩, no need to worry...hehe
Wow, what an experience of another marriage culture of the same state, same tribe but different town. It was all good and a great and successful event. 
Thanks for reading and for visiting my blog!
I do hope you learned one or two things about this culture🥰
Please note: All pictures are mine taken with my cell phone and with the permission of my twin brother and my family to use it here.