Recently, there is this news flying the whole of social media about one man who decided to change the traditional steps in marriage by taking the bull by its horn. The groom has decided to walked his heart rob in Igbo traditional way of marriage in Imo state last weekend. Marriage is established once there is agreement between the bride and the groom. Since marriage is an universal agreement of duo who chooses to come together as a husband and wife, why then do we prefer white Wedding to our own traditional style?

A lots of people believed that couple are still incomplete to the things of God until they walk down to the altar for a white Wedding. The white wedding of today started it's journey from Great Britain which first became popular with Victorian era elites after Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress at her wedding. To me, white wedding is for the white people while the traditional wedding is for the Africans with a peculiar history.

Why do people run away from the traditional wedding?

No matter what happened, traditional way of marriage will always remain as some churches today in Africa country can never join any couple unless the present to them with a certification letter from the traditional home where the bride is coming out from. The essence of the certificate is to ensure that the bride price and other traditional related requirements are met with before the white wedding.

Is it necessary for a couple to wed both in a traditional and the foreign way?

The answer is No. like I said earlier before, marriage is established immediately when the concerned persons pronounced their agreement to the hearing of their witnesses. There is no reason why one is properly done with the traditional wedding will dress up with suit and white lace for the white wedding aka foreign wedding.

Traditional wedding is better in all ramifications, firstly it is our cultural responsibility to institute a marriage in a traditional grand style. The law should let the couples dressed in their native attire and proceeds to the village playground where the consent of the people should be clearly made. Traditional Way of marriage is supposed to be the best form of marriage as the white/church wedding we look up on to is the borrowed culture that has its guidelines unknown to the Africans.

Should we allow our own culture to die in the cost of practicing white man culture? The answer is capital No. Traditional way of marriage has come to stay in Africa.

Recommendations:

If we can adopt the traditional wedding as our cultural way to marriage, then I will highly recommend the adoption of putting on traditional attire, celebrating the marriage at the village playground, using of kola-nuts and decorating of the playground with our cultural costumes.
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White wedding is the most useless ceremony in Nigeria. Bite me.