A marriage ceremony I attended

I was on a phone conversation with a friend of mine yesterday while we were discussing life and what it takes to succeed in life. We talk about life and its challenges, how far we would have to hustle before we will put things to order in this country and even abroad. Things have been so hard but yet those who are making it are surely making it.

Then gradually the conversation diverted to the marriage aspect where we had the conversation about getting married or not. He said wouldn't get married unless things get better for him and probably hold a grand marriage ceremony. That was a good idea and a wonderful one. Then I challenged him with a question, what if you didn't meet your expectations? How would you take it and what will you do

He never gave me a response, then I smiled and gave him a reminder of the wedding ceremony we attended together.

There is a variety and cultural common custom traditions and also religious ethics about marriage. This will make it different from each other, the way do Muslims celebrate their marriage is quite different from that of the Christian religion which is also different from the traditional religion, the ideology I wish the Yoruba people have for married is quite different from that of the Hausa and Igbo.

About wedding ceremony

The marriage ceremony was scheduled to be held sometime around the Corona era. But due to the outbreak of Coronavirus the marriage was postponed to sometime in 2021. The groom was a close friend of mine so we got our invitation card specially invited to the ceremony. I don't even like going to ceremonies where I am not invited or recognized.

The D-Day was here, so my friend heard about the wedding ceremony from me then through my relationship with the groom they were also invited. When we got to the event place we sat down before we realized we were just quite early. That should be ok since the amount of seats is minimal. We already sat down for almost 2 hours after the actual time they promised to start the program. The program should start at 10 a.m. as written on the invitation card but it's already noon and nothing has happened yet. We got tired and furious about not keeping to time without knowing there was still a lot to happen.

The wedding proper started around past noon and the afternoon so we continued with the flow.

It was an interesting one as different programs started to take place one after another: introduction of the groom, the groom, bridal and matrimonial speech, dancing, and merriment continued.

The time was already 3:00 p.m. and my stomach could tell I am hungry. We were there as early as possible then when it was time to serve the guests food they started from the front and everyone was ordering for all the kinds of food they would like to take but when the attendant got to our table she skipped our table and just went on to the other people behind us. We were surprised and a little pissed off.

I thought she forgot or maybe it skipped her mind before one of us called her to attention, she promised to come around but we never saw her again. It was almost 4:00 and the program was about to end. So we are going to attend a wedding ceremony without eating. Who would experience this without having negative thoughts about the marriage, we started to regret our coming over.

Then I took an opportunity to meet with the groom on stage. Immediately he saw me and asked if we had taken any food. I told him, no, then he ordered someone to take me to the food store and give me the amount of food that would be enough for me and my friends. After that, I thought to myself that if I never came up to meet with the groom I wouldn't have gotten any attention and we would have to go home in hunger thinking we would have something to eat.

Ours was later settled but how about those that I never knew anyone or just came to the ceremony may be through friends of friends invitation.

After we had gisted about the ceremony, we laughed and laughed a lot about our experience on that very day. Then he also added that there was a ceremony he attended whereby he had to go out of the ceremony avenue and by himself food from a canteen. It was so poor of them to have organized a program in such a manner.

Conclusion

Though getting money is not that easy and organizing a ceremony is not something easy but at times you just have to prepare for the maximum and not the minimum. It is better to be sufficient than to be insufficient. If everyone got something to eat and feel happy on that very day it is worth more than anything

The ceremony doesn't need to be a big one whereby there would be a lot of crowd at a ceremony but at the end of the day they end up unhappy. To celebrate with a few people in attendance and they are all happy is quite better compared to the former.

I am also using this medium to wish and pray for a virtual friend of mine who had their wedding ceremony today I will also pray the Lord of the universe to continue to make their home a blessed one and conjugal bliss, I pray God to bless their homes with merciful children, provide for them and make them have a happy home forever.

Thanks for reading 💞☺️