The Perfect Wedding Dress.
By Oritsegbubemi Peace Pessu I grow mushy and onion-eyed with a tug to my heart at wedding venues, thinking about mine, oh! I’m all so dreamy about it too, you know, ‘Cinderella-ish’, expectant and wide eyed. But my jerk to reality is the arrival of the bride and like a bullet, I shoot straight out of […]
JUST BEFORE YOU TIE THE KNOT…
Initially, I was a bit skeptical about writing on this topic because I’m really young and totally not ready to marry in the nearest future. However, overtime I’ve observed some of my young friends rush into marriage just for the pride of having a cute ring on the fourth finger and being addressed as “Mrs”. Within a few years, the euphoria wears off and they realize he/she was not the one.
Letter to My Friend, the Bride
Girlfriend, I’m so thrilled that you’re getting married, and I absolutely must share with you some things I knew before I got married, and a few others things I wish someone had told me before I got married.
Bellanaija Founder Weds
The lady who inspired a thousand blogs, appeared on Oprah and CNN, and made Nigerian fashion, events and weddings cool on the internet world over has tied the knot. Uche Eze of bellanaija.com got married to the love of her life Bode Pedro of Veda computers.
The Wedding Dance
These days’ people are becoming adventurous with their wedding dance entrance, and their first dances. I have been to quite a number of weddings, and some wedding dance entrances cracked me up, while others wowed me. For Nigerian weddings, I have seen couples dance in with the weirdest songs. Who says you must dance in […]
Tips for Taking Stunning Wedding Pictures
Nearly every photographer in Nigeria is a wedding photographer. Is this because these photographers have the skills? Or is it because weddings are a means to making money since they occur frequently? In Nigeria, and I’m very sure all over the world, there are over 100 wedding events each weekend. Whatever the reason, there are only very few wedding […]
Marriage: I Do or I Shouldn’t
Every weekend in Nigeria, if you are not in one wedding or two or even three, you are driving past a car with ribbons or seeing your neighbours in their own tailored version of the aso-ebi. Most of the weddings today are very extravagant. Champagne flowing, DJ spinning on the wheels of steel and after […]