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Chinwe
Just Said Yes June 2018

Nigerian wedding traditions ideas

Chinwe, on September 13, 2017 at 11:36 AM

Posted in Wedding Attire 22

I apologize in advance for the long post! I am Nigerian, born and raised in Michigan and my fiancé is Caucasian, with some of his family being Jewish (although he doesn't identify as such). Anyway, we wanted to incorporate some Nigerian traditions into our wedding since we are not having a...

I apologize in advance for the long post! I am Nigerian, born and raised in Michigan and my fiancé is Caucasian, with some of his family being Jewish (although he doesn't identify as such). Anyway, we wanted to incorporate some Nigerian traditions into our wedding since we are not having a traditional Nigerian wedding. We were thinking of doing these.

1. He and I change into traditional attire at some point in the reception. Likely after dinner and we'd get reintroduced and do the "money dance" and remain in this attire throughout the rest of the night

2. We take pics with traditional attire...I'm not sure of how this will work because I want to have pictures in my white dress too

3. Any other traditions you all can suggest!

My fiancé mentioned we could get the bridal party to change too but I kind of just want it to be for us and don't want to coordinate 8 people getting the right fabric and clothes made since they are all reside outside of Florida. Thanks for any input!

22 Comments

  • Leila
    Super October 2017
    Leila ·
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    I think keeping things simple is better, only you and him changing in to traditional outfits during reception . You can always get photos in your traditional outfits taken a day before or after your wedding so you can have a full photo session in white dress and not miss out on that part of the festivities. Maybe if you take pics in traditional outfits at another time you can incorporate / include your family member/ bridal party in those pics as well... if you do it before the wedding date you can display those pics the day of the wedding... that might be super cute!!!!

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  • Kennyeh
    Super August 2018
    Kennyeh ·
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    Yes thank you for posting ! I am from Sierra Leone, born in the US and FH is Naija born- Igbo tribe. We are having a small combined traditional wedding the day before, just FH and I will be in traditional wear. Our whole bridal party will be changing toward the end of the reception before the dancing. Because of this, we also plan to take pictures the day before in our trad clothes. I'm just so excited to see all the colors come together . Our families will also have their own attire

    ETA: we also plan to do the money dance after our second entrance-performance Smiley laugh

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