Would You Cut Wedding Costs?

No weekend in Rwanda passes by without a couple tying a knot after saying I do to each other.

The wedding event is a climax of several weeks of fundraising meetings that the couple holds to ensure that items on their wedding list are funded; including; food, wedding gown, flowers, shoes, wedding rings, hiring luxury cars, dance troupe, drinks, tents the lists are always long depending on the status of the couple.

Although marriage is a universal step in life that every couple looks up to, the manner in which ceremonies are planned and executed vary from one community to another.

In some parts of the world, as long as a couple is in love and agrees to start a family, they do not get hindered by not hiring luxury items and pompous wedding ceremony.

However, in some other parts of the world a wedding can become a mega event in the entire village as the community joins to honour and celebrate newly married couple.

In Rwanda, it has become very expensive for couples to think of a wedding ceremony coupled the fact that it has to be conducted in three phases including; civil, traditional and religious wedding ceremonies.

Recently the world’s showbiz media turned cameras to Florence in Italy to focus on the expensive wedding of an interracial celebrity couple Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. The list of invited guests included mostly celebrities.

Meanwhile a few days after Kim and Kanye wedding, another interracial couple in Uganda was involved in an exclusively simple beautiful wedding that excited the entire village.

An unidentified Dutch national and a Ugandan lady were seen riding on a bicycle after exchanging vows at a village church in remote Uganda. The couple was seen sharing from a pot of local brew (ajono- prepared from millet).

The Dutch are known to love their bicycles whereas bicycles are a common form of transport in this remote part of Uganda.

Although the Ugandan couple rode on a bicycle on their wedding day, they definitely had an expensive wedding dress and suit.

In Rwanda, it could make absolute sense for young couples to keep costs of their wedding ceremonies lower.

(Kim and Kanye drive in an expensive car)

(unidentified couple in Uganda seen riding on a bicycle after exchanging vows at a village church)

(Kim and Kanye kissing during their recent expensive wedding in Florence, Italy)

(The Ugandan Couple is seen sharing some local wine in a Pot seeping from the traditional wooden straws)

(Kim and Kanye whisper to each other while sharing wine)