Hurray! It’s your wedding.
That day you’ve craved all your life is finally here.
Am happy for you sweetheart! Who doesn’t love weddings anyways.
The colorfulness, the bliss; the blasting and dancing, the fried rice and cow meat and the wining and dining.
And if one is lucky enough, an item or two of souvenirs and most importantly, the prospect of serving one’s eyes with different styles of aso ebi; anything from well-sown to lovely, crazy, weird and anything in-between.
Of course, the aso ebi part of the whole ceremony is the most interesting part for many, especially the ladies.
And it’s the Least important aspect of wedding ceremonies for reasons I will state below.
What it takes to organize
To have all your friends and families, far and near, get their own pieces of the aso ebi fabric, believe me, could be quite very stressful.
An issue like aso ebi is too trivial to expend all your energies on.
Remember, it’s your wedding and you need the whole time in the world to enjoy your special day not worrying about other people.
Even if you are going to assign the responsibility to someone else, you will still have to supervise. So, why to bother your head with aso ebi wahala at all.
Affordability
No matter how expensive your family and friends are, your aso-ebi prizes will still fall on the high side for some, even if you are Dangote.
And talking about money, a friend of mine once told me with guilt, how she missed her bosom friend’s wedding because she couldn’t afford to buy the all-inclusive aso ebi package.
The whole thing has cost 45k.
She had just paid her rent for a new apartment and couldn’t get a lending hand. You know what she did?
She cooked up a story for her friend while avoiding the wedding, imagine that!
wouldn’t you want to save your loved ones such stress?
Feeling exploited
It’s crazy that you’ll make some people feel exploited with the whole plan, yet, they will go ahead to get the aso ebi simply because they don’t want to feel like the odd one out.
They just go out of their way and do it grudgingly to please you anyway.
Am sure you’ll not love to make people experience hardship just because it’s your wedding.
Excessiveness
Don’t most of us already have way too many aso ebis in our wardrobe than whatever we can do with them?
The most unreasonable thing to do to that wardrobe is to spend a whole lot of money just to add another piece of fabric jamming the whole place with too many aso ebis.
Wastefulness
How many of us can actually repeat a particular aso ebi dress to at least two different occasions with the same sets of people? (lol).
I bet you don’t want to try it, else, you’ll be in trouble. That’s when on twitter people will be like “can somebody help with some new dresses, pls”… and if you aren’t gonna be wearing an aso ebi more than once, why get one in the first place?
Weddings Privileges
Some folks buy your aso ebi, attend your wedding, then sit down assuredly expecting to be treated like queens and kings as if they’ve actually sponsored the whole wedding.
You know that funny saying ‘ko wo ankara ko je semo’, yeah, ‘no aso ebi, no food or gift at the wedding, ‘funny, that would infer that anyone who has got the aso ebi is entitled everything!
And that’s why some people feel they should get just anything and everything available for taking away at a wedding; after all, they’ve bought the aso ebi. Crap!
No bargain
It’s a different thing when one goes to the market to get fabrics.
That way one gets to choose from a variety of available options, in that way, one would often combine prize with quality and other preferences before making a very good choice.
But buying aso ebi is never like that; you just have to take whatever is given to you; either good or bad and worse still, you cannot even dare to bargain.
Blending colours
To think that after making the whole sacrifice of buying the aso ebi, some brides will still go as far as dictating the colour of shoes and bags that they want you to combine with their fabric.
This is utter wickedness. So what would happen to my old shoe that is not pink or whatever your desired colour is?
Well, although most brides are just all about having a beautiful day at their wedding, others go out of their ways to and over do it.
So, for these reasons, I’ll suggest that going by a colour code will just be ok not dictating a particular fabric and even selling overpriced.
Well, let’s not forget the essence of the whole wedding – joy.
So, I say happy married life to you.
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