The Wedding

On Saturday went to a colleague at works wedding, was about a 3-4 hour trip away so we were told to be ready to go at 5.30am.....finally left at 6.30am.....arrived to the church just after 10am, when the wedding was supposed to start at 10am, but Ghanaian time it didn't begin til 11am.

At 10am there were actually like only 20 people even in the church, but by the end of the service at 1pm there were maybe like at least 200, it was hard to tell exactly but it was a pretty big church.

Wedding was accompanied by lots of singing and praying, the best part when the band started up and the whole church got up row by row and danced to the front and back to their seat for the contribution. This was amazing though as it gave an excellent view of the amazing amazing clothes people were wearing, so very bright and colourful, it was like being at a day at the races, some of the hats and scarfs, and the bright bright materials they wear, hopefully I should have lots of photos to show some of this because it was amazing.

Then went to the reception, which was really nice, overlooked the beach, and actually a clean looking beach with plam trees and grass, but we were up on the hill above so couldn't go down to it.

Reception had a dancing performance from the Sunday school kids who were very cute in their matching costumes and danced very well, so talented Ghanaian children in dance.

The cake was also incredible, this massive structure, with like a hundred of those plastic couples all over it, and none of them black.....but sadly I didn't get to taste the cake cos my colleagues who we came with were moaning about wanting to get back to Accra so we had to leave really early which was annoying.

Photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/emmajaynedavidson/20090705RitaSWedding#