Weddings are events that I am daring to me. I never forget any wedding that I have attended. So my sister’s wedding is one wedding that I will really never forget. Well, this… What I like weddings basically is there’s always music, dance, you know, family. We spend time together. People you’ve not seen in a long time come for the wedding. So my sister’s wedding usually, because my daddy is a very… You will like calling me a traditional man. He expects us to do our weddings, especially our traditional weddings, because he believes that traditional weddings should be done in your hometown. So no matter where you are in the world, you must come down to your hometown for the traditional wedding. So my sister’s traditional wedding took place in a village. It is Aminbo. And… It was on the 29th of December and we all traveled down. So the whole preparation, buying clothes, as we would be, choosing styles, all those things were exciting. Because we family would pick a particular color and groom family would pick a particular color. So the whole family was involved. No matter where you are in the world, you come down for that wedding. Then the whole… I think from going to the market to pick our clothes, the color, the style, it’s exciting. Because you get to wear different clothes, pick the one you want, then we could have a particular color or a particular style. So all that, then the planning to go to the village, we all planned to be on the same flight, we all planned to be… We would try to see if we could get the same seats beside each other, so that we could get to talk about it. Then on that day, we would make up the dance styles. We always have these dance styles, we practice before dancing styles that would display on that day. So then the food. There’s always going to be our traditional food.
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Weddings are events that are dear to me. I never forget any wedding that I have attended. My sister's wedding is one wedding that I will really never forget. What I like about weddings is that there’s always music, dance, and family. We spend time together, and people you haven't seen in a long time come for the wedding. My sister's traditional wedding was particularly special because my dad is a very traditional man. He expects us to have our weddings, especially our traditional weddings, in our hometown. So no matter where you are in the world, you must return to your hometown for the traditional wedding. My sister's traditional wedding took place in a village called Aminbo. It was on the 29th of December, and we all traveled down. The whole preparation, buying clothes, and choosing styles were exciting. Our family would pick a particular color, and the groom's family would pick a different color. The whole family was involved. No matter where you are in the world, you come down for that wedding. The process of going to the market to pick our clothes, the color, and the style was exciting. You get to wear different outfits and choose the ones you want, and we could have a particular color or style. The planning to go to the village was also fun; we all planned to be on the same flight and tried to get seats beside each other so we could talk about it. On that day, we would finalize our dance styles. We always practiced the dance styles that we would display on that day. And then there was the food. There was always going to be our traditional food.
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