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#81 Posted : Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:15:58 AM
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bwenyenye wrote:
My two pence on why weddings are unnecessarily expensive.

Men live beyond their means to impress women. Women live beyond their means to impress other women.

You agree with your fiance that your wedding will cost 300K. And she is good with it. Then she meets her friends and tells them that she is about to get married....boy, your chic comes home and shrieks every time you mention a 500K wedding. She wants a 1M wedding..( Someone posted on another thread 'when two women talk, the devil sita aside and listens and learns..)


So the sole purpose its appears of doing a wedding is to impress the weaker sex?
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harrydre
#82 Posted : Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:12:12 PM
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Drunkard
#83 Posted : Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:35:16 PM
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For kenyans in Diaspora it is even bad, one day another guy called me and ask me to be part of his wedding committee and my first question was, Are you marrying another wife? the reason I asked so is because my understanding was they were married since they'd live together for like 10yrs and they had three kids. The dude decided that since they didn't have a wedding in Kenya, they wanted to travel to Kenya and have a wedding.... I never attended any meeting! Alot of harambee go on everyday in diaspora, if you cuzo from your sister inlaw, step brother's antie from another marriage dies people call for harambees!
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#84 Posted : Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:22:47 PM
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harrydre wrote:
and if u thought Kenya is bad, check this out
http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Great+wedding+cons/-/445642/1296618/-/view/asBlogPost/-/7yyfaaz/-/index.html

Ugandans care too much for image!
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harrydre
#85 Posted : Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:51:07 AM
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i thought this piece fits here

Till fitina does us apart
i.am.back!!!!
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pariah
#86 Posted : Saturday, March 03, 2012 3:16:06 AM
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Drunkard wrote:
For kenyans in Diaspora it is even bad, one day another guy called me and ask me to be part of his wedding committee and my first question was, Are you marrying another wife? the reason I asked so is because my understanding was they were married since they'd live together for like 10yrs and they had three kids. The dude decided that since they didn't have a wedding in Kenya, they wanted to travel to Kenya and have a wedding.... I never attended any meeting! Alot of harambee go on everyday in diaspora, if you cuzo from your sister inlaw, step brother's antie from another marriage dies people call for harambees!


first time ever i agree with drunkard, these are unnecessary michangos
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butterflyke
#87 Posted : Sunday, July 14, 2013 7:45:59 PM
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Anne Kansiime's take on expensive weddings

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#88 Posted : Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:17:15 AM
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kelele.com wrote:
some months ago I attended a "Goat eating" fundraiser for a colleague to raise money to pay his dowry. Now the wedding preparations are underway, and I am needed in the wedding commitee " so that I and others can pledge what to give towards the wedding, on the wedding day am expected to give a present to the newly married......haiyaiyaiyae, things are getting out of hand, we fund you dowry, we fund ya wedding then we stock your new matrimonial house!!!! Nonsense, I will never sit in a wedding committee. People should learn to fund themselves or conduct simple weddings, like I did, mine didn't even cost 90k!!


Why didn't you say "no thank you?"
The problem with us Kenyans is we feel hard pressed to be honest with ourselves. At least the guy had a plan, did you tell him it was a bad idea or you nodded at the moment and went to tell the other story behind his back?

BBI will solve it :)
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washiku
#89 Posted : Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:32:15 PM
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carygoh
#90 Posted : Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:00:26 PM
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YesuWangu wrote:
I have just been invited by sms, by a cousin to contribute some money (3,000) for her wedding. I am not even in the committee. I never knew she even had a man friend.

Maybe if I maintain silence she just will go away.

Honestly I don't have time for these feel-good one-day ventures.



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