22/05/2024
I attended more weddings than funerals, in my youth. The younger I was, the more wedding receptions I gate-crushed.
I remember many Saturdays attending reception at the All saints Cathedral without even knowing who the couple are. Sometimes I didnt even get to see them. However, I as I grew older and wiser, I learnt that you dont attend a wedding if you're not invited, officially. Then the maneno of invited-only came to town, and it was a shocker.! How can you deny people from attending your wedding, how selfish?
And before, in my youth days, all weddings were in the place of worship. Wedding vows/ceremonies were at her church and the reception at his church, assuming walikutana barabarani. Then manenos of garden wedding came to town, another shocker. How unholy are these weddings becoming?. Officiating officer were men, and then...how things change so fast!
Wedding used to have baloons, and some coloured creepy ribbon papers and some glittering thingys. Weddings were an affair within access, be it location or finances. Now you dont attend a wedding without buying a new dress that color matches the theme.
Then the big budget maneno came in, then wedding organizers came in, and then and then...I got lost where the wedding costed $300,000. What is this now?
Now I started asking myself what is a wedding? Where did humbleness, godliness, pious and wedding part ways? Holy matrimony? Or Wholy Materialism?
I ask many question, including the very purpose of the event. Is it really holy?
