Hello family and community. Am glad 😃 to be joining in for the first time here. Happy to be a part of this community because it feels like home, and hope to find everyone in good health.
Thank you for this wonderful topic for this week @hivenaija . Every Wedding celebration with its different occurrences , as we discuss and give our opinions here, it becomes a lesson everyone learn from.
Am always happy 😆 when am invited to a wedding celebration because wedding which is the joining together of two individuals to become one is an event of joy, so the couple feel so happy to have people around them who will be and are part of the wedding witnesses.
The invitees are always family members, friends, colleagues from office or business associates, church members and neighbors, who eventually makes up the congregation . All these individuals makes up the witness to this new couple being join together and everyone here must have been invited in one way or the other.
The things I have observed in several wedding which am not fond of is how individuals always tend to struggle for foods , drinks and sometimes gift 💝 items. This has become a trend in most weddings I have attended. Although its very necessary and important that when we are invited to a wedding, we should expect to eat something as refreshments, but many are taken the advantage of being invited to a wedding to expect more from the couple, making sure that once its time for food sharing, they are all over the places to even get extras for take home.
I see going to a wedding as a means of supporting the new couple especially those who are not flamboyant, who have this need of being join together as a matrimony to be husband and wife living together. Some couples even sometimes borrow money 💰 from friends to make sure they carry out their wedding and settle back gradually. They do not expect those they invited to come because of food, drinks and gift items.
Sometimes too, the couple might not even be aware of how many people did not get to eat food 🥘 while many will eat and still cater away foods and drinks because they have the privilege of being family members, either to the Groom or the Bride. This happens mostly whereby the couple did not make proper arrangements with hired caterers or could not hire one due to funds
And unless its a big time wedding where food 🥘, drinks 🍹 and other things are made surplus, everyone getting enough and extras, this trend will continue to take place because many people do not care about others but themselves due to selfishness and nonchalant attitude which most times leaves us in low self esteem lifestyle.
We should not see a wedding invitation as one to expect everything from the couple but as a means of being a witness on their special day and as a support even if not through financial assistance but presence they will cherish in memory.
Thanks for reading family. Love ❤️.
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