Guinean Wedding Crashers
Last Saturday we had the opportunity to visit no less than TWO Guinean
weddings. The funniest part was that we didn’t know the bride and
groom at either wedding. We went with our pastor, Samuel Kondano who
knew the first couple though not the second. I enjoyed the second
wedding much more than the first. The first was trying very hard to
mimic European/Western weddings while the second seemed much more real
and in tune with Guinean culture. The ceremonies were much more
animated than ours are, with people singing and dancing all over the
place. One traditional joke during a wedding is for many people to
come to the front and claim to be already married to bride or claim
some sort of attachment to her. They will bargain for a while and then
finally the family of the groom will have to give money to the people
who came forward. It is just a joke and the amount of money given is
small but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. We are looking forward
to our next Guinean wedding!
On this day..
- But Can I Eat Them? - 2006
- 10 Minutes Ago.... - 2005
- Thank You Ken! - 2005
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haha – awesome! I like the Guinean jokes. Hey, if you guys come do that at mine
ummm…did it cut off the last 1/2 of my comment? If you come crash my wedding I’ll give you a small bit of money too!
Are the ladies in the photo a part of the wedding party? Or are they from one side of the family?
The Guinean family joke sounds like the old Jamaican tradition of a bidding war that used to accompany the unveiling of the wedding cake at the reception! The money collected was given to the couple :)
I want to go to a Guinean wedding–just when I think I have seen it all. :)