We recently were invited to a friend’s family wedding. Here is a brief look at what it was like.
This wedding was hosted at a village about 45 minutes outside of town. The people here benefit from a new copper mine nearby. We were quite impressed with the quality of homes the people of this village had.
People were first served snacks and treated to a nice, hot coal fire (if you were seated inside. Outside guests just had a snack of candies, treats, and fried dough varieties).
A meal was then served to those waiting for the bride to arrive.
This is clearly a Pepsi family.
Here are the groom’s men and groom waiting for the bride and maids.
The bride arrived by car parade with her family an hour or so after the meal. The cars all stopped at the roadside entrance to the groom’s family house. The men leaders of her family, from their cars, then sang a song to the groom’s famly leaders. While standing at the entry way, the groom’s family sang a song in response to the bride’s family. They went back and forth a few times singing to eachother from cars to roadside and back. Then, it was time for the bride and bride’s maids to park, get out of their cars, and enter. The men in her family surrounded the ladies as they entered, both protecting and escorting them into the house. The ladies all quickly entered the house with their heads down so you couldn’t see their faces and took a place of honor upstairs in the family room.
The groom (also shielding his face) and groom’s men quickly entered after them, and sat down downstairs in a different room.
All the other guests and family members then came in and sat down to another meal. I’m not sure when the bride and groom got to see eachother because we had to leave. I was told, however, that lots of dancing and drinking were going to take place in the evening. Maybe the next wedding we go to, I will get to see the whole thing. But, here is the full picture of the lovely couple together in one of their engagement pictures. Stunning, right?
