WEDDING IN IGBO LAND

Weddings in Igbo land has a different feel to it. Generally, weddings in Nigeria’s indigenous cultures has an amazing feel to it.

Remember my poster girl for Christmas on Igbo land. Well, it is safe to say the girl is now a woman, and the woman is now a bride, and the bride is now a wife!

On Saturday, yes just this past Saturday, 16th October 2023; I had to attend one of the sweetest weddings I have attended in a while.

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Perhaps, you could give credit to the ‘winter’ season we have here, or the yuletide feel. But there was a sweet feel to it.

Now, while I was trying to deduce the reason why this wedding had such amazing feel to it. I almost wanted to attribute it to the fact that it was an outdoor wedding.

Cos one of the best weddings I attended in 2022, was also an outdoor wedding, butttttt….this one has an entire different feel to it.

I’m sure not only would Chimamanda Adichie be proud, Achebe might even be too. This was Igbo culture translocated to the garden city of Port Harcourt.

Yes, it was a traditional wedding, but this was all to love. If this was your first weekend in Nigeria, you’d think you were in the Eastern Nigeria. You’d think you were in Igbo land.

From the bridal procession to the part where the bride is given a drink and ask to find her husband from the crowd.

Anyone she gives the wine to becomes her husband. I don’t know if it’s just myth and fables. But I heard from older people that in the past, you give the drink to the wrong person and that person becomes your husband.

But you be rest assured, that on this day. This bride called Patricia is not mai

At some point, it felt like the bride couldn’t find her husband in the crowd. Ahh! The euphoria, you needed to be there.

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Did I also tell you, that while seated, somehow I got to find out that this couple were the ideal lovers, who had dated for a very long while.

Like from the very early years of college! And I said to myself, “Kai! If only I was not doing book book, shebi by now I would have been dancing Gollibe like my people.”

There’s nothing as sweet as love stories having a happy ending. You could see the emotions flying in the air.

It leaves a lot of questions for the bride too o, I will be waiting in the comment section. Was she mixing man and book while in school?

How can she advise younger ladies who gained admission to combine man and book. 😅😅😅😅 Cos as a man, the advice I always got was “focus on your book, focus on your growth”.

Our igbo bride is a lawyer, yunno. So what time did she have to be seeing man🌝🌝. We are just curious, and comment zone is a friendly zone. How did she combine it? What advise for the younger ones.

Oh! I didn’t even tell you this one. The Aso-ebi girls were something else. It was as if the bride handpicked them. My friend Etinosa was having a really hard time settling for a pick.

In his words, “Chikaike, I see Haaland, Mbappe and Kevin De Bruyne. I even see Bellingham. How do I make a pick?”

Not only did I share his enthusiasm, but his dilemma too. Because what on the earth was this? Oh, you needed to be there!

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Oh, there were sweet cultural display, I think about one or two of them. Such that the audience forgot that we were in a wedding and were caught up in the dance, it felt like we paid gate fee for this level of entertainment.

And ohhhh… I almost forgot, the mother of the bride is a stepper! Oh…you needed to see her stepping. With the backdrop of an amazing igbo song, I had no idea when I joined her in stepping!

You could see the joy in her mom’s dance. She brought everything to the dance stage! She wasn’t playing!!!!

It is safe to say Patricia was not playing with the Igbo culture! She was not playing. If this wedding was a show, we would attend the version two. Endless wishes of happy married life to the sweet couple.