Watch this Video and see the simplicity with which the wedding was celebrated. Everything including the Message was done within an hour. No special dress code. No photographers contending for spaces to take photographs. Cameramen and women stayed far away from the couple, so there was no obstruction of movements or block of ways. Everything was orderly. I look forward to seeing wedding celebrated or solemnized in this manner as in this video.
I am worried that Nigerians don’t keep to time. No respect for time at all. A wedding scheduled for 9 O’clock in the morning sometime commences almost two hours behind schedule.
In invitation cards, many Pastors are listed to officiate the wedding. Such Ministers take their turns to speak. Whenever you are going to a wedding in Nigeria, prepare to spend a whole day there, especially if you want to attend both wedding solemnization in the Church and Reception.
The annoying thing in all is the requirement for a special dress for the occasion. We are not economically viable, yet we like putting too much burdens upon ourselves – things that drain our pockets and impoverish us for a long time.
In the Church, the Sermon delivered is usually long. The message for the day ought to be in form of advice and exhortation, but it is annoying that some Pastors take a whole one hour or more to preach. Do you wonder why some people don’t like attending Church to witness the wedding which is more important than the Reception?
At Reception, instead of the couple to march straight to their seats, they still go through ceremonial dancing which takes as much as 20 -30 minutes before getting to their seats.
Master of Ceremony (MC) is another problem. He or she wants to justify the money paid him or her, thus he/she goes on cracking all manner of jokes.
Chairman of the occasion, who never even attended wedding in the Church to witness solemnization turns himself to a preacher at the Reception and takes a lot of time even up to 40 minutes or more to advise the couple.
Woe unto us in Nigeria for having no regard for time. That is one of the reasons we are not progressing. If I attend your wedding, it means I shall have no time to do any other thing for myself that day – what a calamity!
Mighty Voice will continue to speak.
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