Ibibio Culture: Traditional Marriage Design
Hi everyone. First before I continue, I will like to thank everyone who showed up to make my introduction post quite juicy and encouraging. Sincerely from my heart I really appreciate your.
Introduction
Traditional marriages in Africa are usually the most important kind of marriage however it is been done irrespective of the tribe, region or language involved and that's because it screams the true virtue of Africa in it fullness. It can be stressful at times but it is always a very rewarding ritual to perform.
The Process
Everything beautiful always start as ugly things and most times, the journey to getting beauty from things can be so discouraging. We left for the venue at about 6:00am and wow! that's always the most annoying part of this job. Often we move with the materials we are working with but this time there was a slip change in the ritual because the materials moved to the venue a night before the event and that's really why we delayed till 6:00am before moving.
Thank heaven I was spared from the stress of having to off load the materials from the truck as we always do.
You just might need to know about what we used to give class to the events.
Flower
Rose flowers
Mat flowers
Synthetic(green grass)
Green leafs
Dropping flowers
Fabrics
Spandex
Cherry Blossom
Gold and oxblood voil
Oxblood sage
Others
Gold pedestal stand
Stage
Plywood(Board)
Bridal Seat
Wooden Table
Hut
There is this extra beauty using a stage add to a trado hut so we began by setting the stage and laying a plywood(board) on the stage and then we covered it up with a synthetic carpet(Green grass) before setting the hut.
At this stage we had already started placing the hut stands(pillars) on the stage.
One special thing about this trado hut is that it is not the regular stuffs guys use around this one is actually a little thinking put to work to give an exceptional look. If you notice, the pillars are actually separate on their own and we had to form some wood to hold them together to make it stand strong.
After putting the pillars, we placed the same plywood(board) we used on the stage before as the backdrop and we covered it with another set of synthetic carpet(green grass).
You might ask why everything is green everything we are using is green well the reason is simple and that is that we need a touch of nature in it and green is the best way to communicate nature into modernization and civilization.
After the green synthetic, we added green mat flowers to the stuffs.
And that the green mat flower but it has a different look when it is placed on a surface that it is needed. Now this is what I mean.
We covered the roof of the hut with a fabric incase of rain. Now this part is what gives me the greatest fun and that is to add cherry blossom to the entire roof and some dropping flowers cause the whole stair.
Now to the pillars we did some touch to it by adding rose flowers to it and the look became just amazing. Take a look at it after the rose magic
At this point, we were fully done with the setting up the hut and we moved over to fixing the walk way(aisle) and this also is a fantastic process all together.
The same pillars we used to fixed the hut is the same pillars we used to set the aisle and we did that because we needed uniformity in the design and lest i forget, one thing must be paramount to a decorator and he/she should strive at all cost to hold it dear to himself and that is what we call theme. Well i don't really have to explain this too much but as it were, it talks more about having a uniform in all things both in colour and in arrangement.
For the aisle we used mat flower only by the side of the stand while green leafs lord it over the others. Still we used roses only on the legs of the pillars just exactly as we did to the pillars of the hut.
(Aisle Construction in progress)
Now that's how it went with our traditional marriage design.
Thanks for having and I hope to do this often but before then let see what the place looked like after the design.
And we call this the Basket Of Love