Wedding before and wedding now. The Big gap

Wedding preparations is a very big work. If you have not had your traditional or white wedding before you will not understand. Sometimes you will see the couple to be looking very tired and may not even have time to eat food. Thanks to the advancement in technology today that you can have a wedding planner to run around for you. All you need do is just to rest.

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Welcome back to my blog this beautiful midweek. I believe that you are all doing great. Today we are going to be talking about my wedding that took place years back. I hope the story will not be boring.

This is week 81:- Edition 02 , with the topic On Your Wedding Day

*Tell us about your wedding day and how it was. Tell us about the reception and how much you enjoyed yourself. For those who are yet to get married, you can tell us what you'll expect your wedding day to be like.

Wedding moment is the moment when everyone in the family is very happy. Lots of money will be spent but it seems as if no one cares that money is been spent. My wedding took place twenty three years ago and from what I see today, most times I envy people who celebrate their wedding now because things have actually changed and it is done in a more sophisticated way today. Because I lived alone, my parents had to travel from a very far place to come for the wedding. For me, that was when I happiness started. Immediately I saw my mom and dad, I was filled with joy and was looking forward to the day of my wedding.

Two major things happened during preparation and on the day of my wedding. First, it was my mom. She spent most of her life in the village, so riding on bike has not been part of her life. She prefers to walk with her legs even if it will take her two or three hours to get to her destination. But for me who never spent most of my life in the village it was the opposite for me.

So, when they alighted from the car that brought them from the earthen part of Nigeria to the North where I stay, I sent a bike man to go and carry her home. The drama started right from there. She refused to go with the bike man. She insisted that she wants to go on foot. But she don't even know the house and it was her first time in my place. The bike man had to plead with her to go with him for a very long time before she accepted. The bike man later told me that my mother was shouting behind him all the way to my house, she thought that she will fall down. Hahaha 😄.

Secondly, on the set day. A guy that I cherish so much while I was still single who later proposed to me when I had already gone far with my husband, things couldn't work between us because he came late. I remembered how we both cried in his shop the very day I told him that the reason why I would not marry him was because I have someone in my life. He came to my wedding and that was not a good sign for me. I never wanted to see him that day. Immediately I saw him, I became tensed. I wished he never showed up for that wedding, but he did show up. My love for him started afresh there during my reception. I pray my husband don't get to read this post. Hahaha 😄. I could hardly concentrate. In fact, I lost focus that day as long as he was in the reception hall. I don't even know when he left and when I couldn't see him again I became calm. His presence almost ruined my wedding reception. But thank God that every thing later went fine

One of the alarming things that happened that day was the kind of gift that we received from people and also the crowd that gathered for that wedding. I never knew that people Loved me that much until I saw that crowd. After the reception, we had to use one full pickup to pack our wedding gift to get a place to keep them because we don't even have enough space to keep them as at that time.

All glory to God because that same wedding for years back has produced a great family of seven today.

This is a true life story, but it was inspired by the hive learners community contest.

The picture is mine, but the design was done with Canva.