The average Nigerian wedding today takes four phases
basically, which obviously does not mean getting married four different times
to four different persons, but to the same person in four different ways, as
dictated by religion, culture, tradition, and civil law.
In Yorubaland, the Introduction ceremony (mo min n moo) is
the first phase. Families of the intending couple formally meet for
acquaintances and assert their consent to the proposed marriage. Some are done
in a living room setting with strictly the nuclear or immediate extended
families in attendance, and for some others, only the paying of bride price
separates this from the proper engagement ceremony. During many Introductions
these days, the groom and his friends prostrate severally to the bride’s family
(signifying a plea to marry their daughter), intending couple cuts the cake,
spokespersons (in Yoruba setting), usually referred to “Alága Ìjókó”
representing the bride’s family and “Alága Ìdúró” standing for the groom’s side
are used, gifts such as fruits, wine and drinks are exchanged and so on.)
published by Nigerian Tribune.
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