Mumu wedding. Hope it's not church that forced her to do this. These kind of husbands when they hammer will marry wife and do celebrity wedding. Then she will come online and start crying about how she did not have cake, chicken or even wedding dress at her wedding. If this wedding is the couple's choice however, goodluck to them.

ogbonti:
This was how Tai Solarin married his Oyinbo wife in the UK, with a few pennies in his pocket, he got a wedding ring, and they crossed the street to go to a court house in London. That marriage lasted for more than 50 years before he died. She even stayed with him in NIgeria for almost 50years, and they were a success story, but the marriage of prince Charles and lady dianna in 1981crashed after they spent almost $200 million to host it with about 100 presidents, kings and head of states in attendance, and almost 500 million people viewing it live worldwide. Moral of story: marriage is what is in the heart not the merriment around.

tell them bro...You my friend is just an embodiment of knowledge..

Nigeria girls too do,and thunder fire banky for raising the stake higher for we Bobo's when never marry ,last last e be like say na Wiz kid pattern sure pass

Some rent hall alone for like 1m to 2m for few hours of the reception....imagine.

Please let stop all these fake lifestyle....no be competition. Life is not a 100m race ...

This should be encouraged more.

You can do your wedding in the church and use the same venue maybe rent one or two canopies to accommodate your guest.Snap pictures and enlarge it later Give them small chops and soft drinks and after that everyone go home.

aspirebig:
Some rent hall alone for like 1m to 2m for few hours of the reception....imagine.

Please let stop all these fake lifestyle....no be competition. Life is not a 100m race ...

This should be encouraged more.

You can do your wedding in the church and use the same venue maybe rent one or two canopies to accommodate your guest.Snap pictures and enlarge it later Give them small chops and soft drinks and after that everyone go home.

last I converted 2 million naira I found out it is less than £2000 and I know took calculator and realized that we are indeed suffering in Nigeria..when someone like ordinary Ahmed musa without working earns close to £70k a week I just SMH for the country.. so bros make u erase the mindset that spending 2m on a wedding is a lot of money..na poverty

chronique:
Nobody truthfully wants to wed this way; let us tell ourselves the truth sometimes. If they had the money, they would have done like every other person. I must commend them for their courage to damn what anybody says, and do this but this sole act should not be used as a yardstick to judge everybody, neither should it be the benchmark for testing if a lady is loyal or a wife material. We don't get married everyday. My younger sister got married recently and everyone was happy cos the wedding was lit! Yeah, it costs some good millions and I felt proud and was happy it went that way. It was classy and what every bride would want... Years down the line, she and her hubby would look back and still be proud of themselves. Banky and Adesuwa just had theirs and we're all talking about it. Years to come, they would look at themselves and be proud of what they did.

If you have the means, go for what you want and make your wedding as classy and lit as it can be. Weddings don't happen everyday. The harsh reality is that if my sister wants to do this kind of wedding, I don't know if I'd ever be a party to it cos I'd be disturbed about how the man in question would be able to take care of her. We all wanna be happy. Brides wanna be happy on their wedding day... The fact that there are leeches everywhere, doesn't mean we should use poverty as a standard for judging a good wife material. If I want to get married, I'd love it to be as lit as it can.

Moreover, the fact that they got married like this, doesn't mean they would not break up if devil surfaces in their union. Poverty and lack of money, destroys so many homes and that's why it is good for one to be financially ok to a reasonable extent before getting married.

When the realities of a family life kicks in, the last thing couples remember is how big/small/flamboyant wass their wedding.

Gluhbirne:
I'm all for simple weddings, but I know everyone's different sha.

same thing Banky W said.. Phew..

I'm sure this is what susu and banky initially had in mind

Person do marriage na problem person nor do na trouble

Taaa! I don't know why I don't find this cool. Maybe if this was done at home, with the two families present and its plain traditional marriage with the bride price and joining together. Whew! No wedding dress or special Sunday dress? No food? No special anything? Biko it is well...nobody is catching late comers


Na las Vegas? Abegi!

sprintscr7:

last I converted 2 million naira I found out it is less than £2000 and I know took calculator and realized that we are indeed suffering in Nigeria..when someone like ordinary Ahmed musa without working earns close to £70k a week I just SMH for the country.. so bros make u erase the mindset that spending 2m on a wedding is a lot of money..na poverty

Shut up there....I said now people spend 1m to 2m on RECEPTION HALL alone.I did not mean 1m to 2m on entire wedding ..even the 1m to 2m. .is it easy? Wedding is NOT marriage oooo Wedding is just for few hours .and marriage is a LIFE time commitment. I did my wedding in one of the biggest city in this world and I know what I spent only on MC. Just MC.... that was years ago,and I paid the guy completely before the day, just for wedding reception alone .... I know what I spent on reception hall hiring,then the hall decorations and cakes,then food, as in rice, swallow with different african soups, salad, small shops, drinks, photographer and video . As in for photobook,burning all the pictures on CD, two big enlargements, one video for wedding and another for traditional......The weddding reception was massive and so was the traditional ...as a matter of fact, some dudes still owe me for Asoo ebi till date ..they did not pay.

I am talking out of experience, ok.


Read what someone write well,before jumping to conclusion and talking about poverty. .It is not a news that there is poverty in Africa...what is per capital income of people in Nigeria as compared to someone in Europe...we are talking of moderate wedding, you are mentioning Ahmed Musa ,a popular Nigerian international, a professional footballer in EPL club Leicester, who earns his wages weekly in pounds week in, week out .even as he is not regular ..who just invested heavily in filling station up north.... are you ok at all?

Do you think Nigeria is England? Even in England, don't they have poor people there? Is it everyone that is earning well and living large like Ahmed Musa you mentioned? You have to be rational and put things in the right perspectives.

You saw a wedding of people that cannot even afford ordinary suit, no cake, no asoo ebi, non drinks, and you are mentioning a potential billionaire footballer in the matter.
Then something is wrong with your sense of judgement.

How many Nigerians in UK, apart from footballers earn that type of wages Ahmed Musa earns? Not to talk of people in Nigeria? Dollar is between N360 to N380 now while pounds is in the neighbourhood of N400 to N450 or there about. Honestly, I see no need for such comparism. Can you compare the salary of an average worker in Nigeria to the salary of an average worker in London?



I asked my Parents then, what were the requirements for marriage in their time and I was told that It was just a keg of Palm wine and few kolanuts for the blessing with say about 10 people in attendance and after some 30 minutes , the marriage is over.. then the bride family will handle over their daughter to the groom's parents and say these few things to the newly married:
1. Your union will be a blessing to us all, amen.
2. You will born both male and female, till your house is filled.
3.To the groom, please do not beat her o, do not allow her to be hungry,not naked,not homeless.
4.Both of shall be prosper, Amen.
5.Sickness and evil people will not see you, amen.

That was the simple and yet affordable marriage rites of the 1940s,1950s,1960s,and they lived together till old age. How many divorces did you see then ? How many barreness did you see then? Even giving birth was seamless ...no operations for baby delivery....most of these activities now are foreign due to modernisation and it is impacting negatively on our youths.

Every one want to outdo the other, now some aso ebbi are sold for 100k, before you talk of sewing ...



Let's be reasonable and realistic please .

Noted, Tanx

Personally, I see nothing wrong at all with elabourate/extravagant weddings.
To me it could also be an expression of your excitement for marrying the right one. Or marrying someone you love.
If I'm having a big wedding, the least people I have in mind to impress are the guests.
My wedding could be extravagant.
But my day in, day out of my marriage wouldn't necessarily be.

Common guyz, its just a party.
Its all about me, my wife and I.

ogbonti:
This was how Tai Solarin married his Oyinbo wife in the UK, with a few pennies in his pocket, he got a wedding ring, and they crossed the street to go to a court house in London. That marriage lasted for more than 50 years before he died. She even stayed with him in NIgeria for almost 50years, and they were a success story, but the marriage of prince Charles and lady dianna in 1981crashed after they spent almost $200 million to host it with about 100 presidents, kings and head of states in attendance, and almost 500 million people viewing it live worldwide. Moral of story: marriage is what is in the heart not the merriment around.

Iya basira and papa mumunni for my backyard married with 1000naira. They shared only pure water to all of us that attended it.

Wedding lasted only one month.

So what's ur point?

chronique:
Nobody truthfully wants to wed this way

If you have the means, go for what you want and make your wedding as classy and lit as it can be. Weddings don't happen everyday. The harsh reality is that if my sister wants to do this kind of wedding, I don't know if I'd ever be a party to it cos I'd be disturbed about how the man in question would be able to take care of her. We all wanna be happy. Brides wanna be happy on their wedding day... The fact that there are leeches everywhere, doesn't mean we should use poverty as a standard for judging a good wife material. If I want to get married, I'd love it to be as lit as it can.

Moreover, the fact that they got married like this, doesn't mean they would not break up if devil surfaces in their union. Poverty and lack of money, destroys so many homes and that's why it is good for one to be financially ok to a reasonable extent before getting married.

Isn't it quite neat that though you feel others shouldn't use this to judge a good wife material, you can conveniently judge the man's pocket by being "disturbed about how a man who organises such wedding for your sister would be able to take care of your sister"?

aspirebig:



Shut up there....I said now people spend 1m to 2m on RECPTION HALL alone.I did not mean 1m to 2m on entire wedding ..even the 1m to 2m. .is it easy? Wedding is NOT marriage oooo Wedding is just for few hours .and marriage is a LIFE time commitment. I did my wedding in one of the biggest city in this world and I know what I spent only on MC. Just MC.... that was years ago,and I paid the guy completely before the day, just for wedding reception alone .... I know what I spent on reception hall hiring,then the hall decorations and cakes,then food, as in rice, salad, small shops, drinks, photographer and video . As in for photobook,burning all the pictures on CD, two big enlargements, one video for wedding and another for traditional......The weddding reception was massive and so was the traditional ...as a matter of fact, some dudes still owe me for Asoo ebi till date ..they did not pay.

I am talking out of experience, ok.


Read what someone write well,before jumping to conclusion and talking about poverty. .It is not a news that there is poverty in Africa...what is per capital income of people in Nigeria as compared to soneone in Europe...we are talking of moderate wedding, you are mentioning Ahmed Musa ,a popular Nigerian international, a professional footballer in EPL club Leicester, who earns his wages weekly in pounds week in, week out .even as he is not regular ..who just invested heavily in filling station up north.... are you ok at all?

Do you think Nigeria is England? Even in England, don't they have poor people there? Is it everyone that is earning well and living large like Ahmed Musa you mentioned? You have to be rational and put things in the right perspectives.

You saw a wedding of people that cannot even afford ordinary suit, no cake, no asoo ebi, non drinks, and you are mentioning a potential billionaire in the matter.
Then something is wrong with your sense of judgement.

How many Nigerians in UK, apart from footballers earn that type of wages Ahmed Musa earns? Not to talk of people in Nigeria? Dollar is between N360 to N380 now while pounds is in the neighbourhood of N400 to N450 or there about. Honestly, I see no need for such comparism. Can you compare the salary of an average worker in Nigeria to the salary of an average worker in London?



I asked my Parents then, what were the requirements for marriage in their time and I was told that It was just a keg of Palm wine and few colanuts for the blessing with say about 10 people in attendance and after some 30 minutes , the marriage is over.. then the bride family will handle over their daughter to the groom's parents and say these few things to the newly married:
1. Your union will be a blessing to us all, amen.
2. You will born both male and female, till your house is filled.
3.To the groom, please do not beat her o, do not allow her to be hungry not naked not homeless.
4.Both of shall be prosper, Amen.
5.Sickness and evil people will not see you, amen.

That was the simple and yet affordable material rites of the 1940s,1950s,1960s,and they lived together till old age. How many divorces did you see then ? How many barreness did you see then? Even giving birth was seamless ...no operations for baby delivery....most of these activities now are foreign due to modernisation and it is impacting negatively on our youths.

Every one want to outdo the other, now some aso ebbi are sold for 100k, before you talk of sewing ...



Let's be reasonable and realistic please .

well said.

The guy u replied is just a local boy that haven't left his village. The truth is about 80% of Nigerians living legally abroad won't spend such money on venue... I noticed that most legally working Nigerians are more cautious and calculating when spending their hard earned cash

Ishilove:
Very few people can do this. It's a "once in a life time event" (even though some do it again and again years down the line) so it must be 'memorable'

That spending a lot of money makes it memorable is a matter of perception.

nairamaniac:

Iya basira and papa mumunni for my backyard married with 1000naira. They shared only pure water to all of us that attended it.

Wedding lasted only one month.

So what's ur point?

u have problems with comprehension.. Read what the guy typed and u will get a clue from his last sentence

livingg:
Let Weddings Be Done With In Our Power

And yesterday I had an awesome experience at Church, a couple got married during church service. No wedding gown, no Cake, rice, wine, chicken, soft drinks or chinchin.... We drank Kunu zaki, ate doughnut and licked sweets. Yet the atmosphere was filled with joy and happiness, we praised God and danced With all excitement. The bride was even more excited than the groom and I saw her as the strongest among the two.
The lessons learnt are as follows:
1. Tell yourself the truth.
2. Cut your coat according to your shirt
3. Do not compare yourself with others; weddings are not competitions.
4. Ladies let's be like today's bride; lets be understanding; we should be contented with the love and efforts of our men and not push them into debt.
5. Most young men are not married today, not because they cannot afford to provide the woman with her day to day upkeep but because they cannot afford a wedding.
6. A simple wedding like this is far more honourable than 'zo mu zauna'.
7. Let us stop this wedding ceremony palavas and make life easy for ourselves.
P.S: I am not against glamorous weddings; all I say is let all be done within our power. #selah#

Source: I was there live

God bless this couple wherever they are. They are my type of pple that i admire. When you think too much or worry too much about what others would so, you are bound to live your life for them but since we cannot please everybody; the cycle of unhappiness/unfulfilled live never end in such cases.
For me, it's never about my pocket but me and my wife's satisfaction and happiness. Why should i ever allow the focus of that day to shift away from the two of us?..that's stupidity!

martineverest:
u have problems with comprehension.. Read what the guy typed and u will get a clue from his last sentence

U lack education.
U never heard of the word sarcasm?

emeijeh:
Question is
:Will the average Nigerian girl agree to do this kind of wedding?



We all know the answer

Thats the major wahala. NAIJA girls with glamour is like 5 and 6

Expensive dowries and weddings have made so many men unmarried and resort to having baby mamas.
Marrying a woman in Nigeria is like buying a human being!
With 10k, you can pay for a woman's dowry in Cote d'Ivoire.

JuanDeDios:

That spending a lot of money makes it memorable is a matter of perception.

It's marriage that matters, not wedding. If the memorable wedding will guarantee the success of the marriage, then by all means, spend away. Take a trumpet and blow

Ishilove:

It's marriage that matters, not wedding. If the memorable wedding will guarantee the success of the marriage, then by all means, spend away. Take a trumpet and blow

It won't. No, it has next to nothing to do with it.

Gluhbirne:
I'm all for simple weddings, but I know everyone's different sha.

I really like your profile picture, it's a real sought after feeling for me getting used to working/living in such a room, whouw !

There is high chance of this wedding lasting longer than Banky W's wedding.

ImaIma1:
I feel smaller weddings are more classy.
People just like to show off and want people to keep talking about how lit their wedding was. When you are the type that cares a lot about what people think or what they say, you will definitely do more than your level.

Or they just want a big wedding because its what they prefer just as its your choice to have a small wedding.
Why do people always judge the choices of others?

Wedding is not part of what I will spend my money on.

Gluhbirne:
I'm all for simple weddings, but I know everyone's different sha.

Na so banky n adesua self talk that time....Be whining yourself

chronique:


It did not crash because it was big and celebrated. It crashed due to other factors. I don't like when people start saying "Malta guiness is bitter" just because they can't afford it.

You are like wedding and you like to show off and you are indirectly saying people that have low key wedding are broke....

FortifiedCity:
That's what Adesua said but you know how it turned out.

So it's when we see your wedding that we'll confirm

When people don't have money they will be saying i don't like flamboyant life but once they have beyond their expectation, the story will change. Like what a lady do tell me then during my i never chop period when she see who get money to get those things d story change. Kudos to d Lady to accept such wedding

DedeNkem:
Expensive dowries and weddings have made so many men unmarried and resort to having baby mamas.
Marrying a woman in Nigeria is like buying a human being!
With 10k, you can pay for a woman's dowry in Cote d'Ivoire.

Even here in nigeria especially the Yoruba's you can pay dowry less than yours even in north