African wedding pics

 Our beautiful African dresses, the material picked by the bride, made into different styles

                           The choir singing and dancing.  The tiny one on mom's back never woke up!

                                             Ayo and Ramata. It took hours to style Ramata's hair

                                                          Mr and Mrs Ayo Williams

We  (the Mercy Shippers) were seated at the place of honor, behind the bride table at the reception.  Seated beside Ramata is her Godmother.

The wedding was to have started at noon.  At 1:45 pm the music started and was preprogrammed on the keyboard.  We sang along to "Silent Night", "O Tannebaum", "What Child is This", "Jingle Bells", "Joy to the World", "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" among others.  What a Hoot!  And then the Choir sang for another half hour, traditional African Songs with everyone singing along and dancing.  The bride and groom arrived and the 2 + 1/2 hour service began! There were 8 pastors who took part in the service, reading scriptures, giving messages, reciting the vows, blessing the rings and finally Ramata and Ayo are pronounced husband and wife and Ayo got to kiss his beautiful bride. We only stayed a short time at the reception since we were 6 hours into the celebration by then but there would be dancing and food and more dancing and food, etc.  What a special day!