My first Nigerian Wedding!

This is my hundreth post, btw..shall we celebrate? (I should have called this blog "celebration for a lifetime"..hey..next time..)

A friend of ours got married weekend before last...Richard was the best man, so a couple of us got to go down to Benin City (where his wife is from) and attend..it was the first time I'd attended a Traditional African wedding, so it was quite the experience...

Traditional wedding first on Friday evening..

They had all sorts of entertaining traditions like the 2 "sides" (families) presenting each other with gifts, the preacher blessing the cola nut & drinks that were passed out, women bringing out the wrong bride a couple times b4 the real one showed, etc. ...Amusing to say in the least..

Didn't get many good shots that day, as the whole thing was indoors & we were sitting, but here's one we managed with the groom. I donned one of my traditional "wears" for the occassion..


The Bride had actually waited for the groom and last guests (us included, who left the hotel with the groom) for about 4 hours...here she's managing a smile despite her tiredness..

Church wedding ensued the following morning...

W/ Bride's maids, etc. The bride is an air-hostess, so there were plenty of fine air hostesses in the house that day...

W/ Best Man (aka Richard), Maid of Honor, Groom's men & a few friends..

Rich & Angela looking "shap, shap", as the Nigerians say...

The only proof that i even attended the white wedding that day...i was behind the camera 4 the rest of the time..