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White weddings, are they really necessary?

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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Have you seen how our people are confused when trying to explain what an engagement means in the West and what our equivalent is? Haha! Following other peoples tradition is leading to argument in the marriage from the outset ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    I WOULD RATHER KEEP THE MONEY N SPEND IT WITH MY WOMAN ON THE HNEYMOON. DO A TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE. GO TO CITY HALL N DO THE SIGNATURE. HAVE A SMALL CEREMONY WITH A PASTOR PRESENT TO BLESS THE VOWS. HAVE A DINNER AT A BIG REST ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

    Yes, and my question was going to be: Can you really survive without the influence of western culture? Which in my opinion is "Human Culture". Just because white people started it first or thought about it first, and have gon ...
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  • Joe Kojo 10 years ago

    Citizen One, is that why you are out there cleaning whiteman's poopoo? No one will stop you continue doing that and do nothing for yourself. If you truely are a Ghanaian, there should be something to make you what you are. Th ...
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  • LIZ 10 years ago

    Stop your backward thinking. We are all not toilet cleaners here. Some of us are professionals with good paying jobs.

  • b awonye 10 years ago

    I think what citizen one may be trying to say is that yes, hold in high esteem traditions but, move on, make changes to reflect the times regarding the obsolete parts of traditional practices within a traditional set up. That ...
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  • v v 10 years ago

    well said,but i belive everytin must be within ur reach.if yu cant afford it,do it in a small way that will glorify God.

  • yaw boateng 10 years ago

    Excuse me,you're using knowledge but not wisdom. Marriage has nothing to do with civilization. Have you consider the first known marriage in the garden of eden? All these lavish western styles of marriage are for making money ...
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  • b awonye 10 years ago

    I think your simplified version is all in good taste. You have declared your intention(s), done the traditional, taken it further undertaking a civil ceremony, having the church bless the marriage and celebrating in a restaur ...
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  • Zenith 10 years ago

    '...white weddings are not necessary; ... a waste of money.' You,re entitled to your view. And of course a point there.Not quite bad a write-up. Keep it up. I can see your great potential; but try to get your articles edited ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    This has always been my position and if a lady has seen the light, then we are heading towards the right direction and what we need is the churches who created the problem in the first place to have a change of heart.

    You ...
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  • Nana Panin 10 years ago

    You are on point.

  • Christy 10 years ago

    Hi Marian, thanks for your article. In my opinion I think that the legal issues involved in marriage make weddings or marriage under the ordinance "inevitable".

    This is because if a couple do not register their marriage, ...
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  • Joe Kojo 10 years ago

    Christy, registration and certification of marriages does not necessarily require you to have a whiteman's wedding. You can always go and register and certify any customary marriage. please find out from the Registra General.

  • Akosua 10 years ago

    that's the point she is making.

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    I'd rather have a "come we stay" type of wedding.No hassle,no vows and no unecceasry expenses yet its easier to dissolve.

  • Nii SAM, Nigeria. 10 years ago

    My friend you are a small child that is why you do not know the advantage of white wedding.
    1. White Wedding is for Certification.
    2. It is recognised in the Law Court.
    3. Recognised in the whole world.
    4. Qualify you to ...
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  • Critical Thinking 10 years ago

    In response to the comment above, it is clear that the learned commenter doesn't understand the difference between a white wedding and a marriage certificate. He says
    1. White Wedding is for Certification. - A white wedding ...
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  • Akosua 10 years ago

    Thanks for your comment, i was about to say the same thing. I think he should read the article before calling the lady a small child.

  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 10 years ago

    You rather do not know what you are talking about.You are one of those who believe that everything introduced by the whiteman is superior.Where
    in the Bible is it said that marriages should be blessed in churches before it ...
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  • Okomfo,London 10 years ago

    Sam, you have exposed your ignorance to the world.You are a disgrace.

  • yaw boateng 10 years ago

    Oh please you have to rather do your research. The marriage certificate is not issue just bcos of your white wedding. The requirements of marriage certificate doesn't include the white wedding.

  • Nokwarekafo 10 years ago

    My customary marriage , with affidavit of support from my family sa wittnesses was accepted at the American Embassy.

  • nicman@atl 10 years ago

    you did not stay with you grand parent. you mean borrow wear wedding has advantages

  • Nyameasem 10 years ago

    Hi Marian,
    Thanks for your noble thinking and contribution to the society.
    The pastors of Ghana should take thought from your advice.
    It is very painful seeing people with envelopes in the streets of Ghana searching for mo ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 10 years ago

    Wite weddings are just 'show-offs' and have nothing to do with our culture.Moreover nowhere is it stipulated in the Bible that marriages should be blessed in the churches before it is accepted by God.It is part of the whitema ...
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  • Joe Kojo 10 years ago

    The question is, how many white men take their weddings to churches for blessing? How many of them even get married? It is well known that more than 70% of them cohabit without marrying.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    My brother wanted to marry his girlfriend and wants me to buy him a suit for the wedding.I told him if you could not afford to buy your own suit for the wedding it means you are not ready for the marriage.
    The marriage didn` ...
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  • Okomfo,London 10 years ago

    Thank you very much Marian.You've said it all.Those who consider the customary marriage an engagement are just ignorants who need better education on marriage.

  • v v 10 years ago

    i think simplicity is the best.everybody has a preference.

  • v v 10 years ago

    Marian talk to the women who have made life soo difficult n unbearable for some of us young guys.excessive competition among the women,all they say is that'my friend did it this way n soo i must tread on same grounds'.

  • Alhaji Karantao 10 years ago

    White weddings are indeed unnecessary.The whites themselves are trying hard to avoid the expenses involved. The whites will be very happy to have our customary system. In fact they will refer to it as very civilized.

  • Kex 10 years ago

    What the whites do is their customary syetem, it is us who because of colonisation are confused. Please leave the whites alone, they marry by church or by state.

  • kojo 10 years ago

    kidos to the writer,Mariam. yes, it is a fact that the white wedding almost always comes with registration, but that does not make it any legal or valid than the other marriages, which of course could also be registered for s ...
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  • kojo 10 years ago

    the churches are the problem, all because they use the occasion to make money and pull crowd. i tell u what, majority of those flamboyant white weddings end up in break ups than any other simple marriage. find out from the co ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    We are what we are in Africa and it shows. Look here, from Algeria to South Africa and from Gambia to Ethiopia there is nothing authentic African any longer. Our system of governance, the legal systems and our so-called forma ...
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  • Grammar Police 10 years ago

    For a KNUST student, your grammar is poor. Very poor. Marian, you need to work on your writing skills, or, better still, let someone proofread your work the next time before you get it published. In line with other people's c ...
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  • yaw boateng 10 years ago

    Its not our language. With the exception of Africans . All the develop countries speaks their language's when they meet their counterparts. Eg Germany,Nederland,Russia,south Korea among others. It's long over due to embrace w ...
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  • Odopa.com 10 years ago

    But you understood what has been written? How capable are you reading and writing in YOUR OWN LANGUAGE never mind someone else?

  • Amevor Kesewodufia 10 years ago

    Marian you are perfectly right. The problem with "white marriage" is that it is regarded as inferior, unchristian and "pagan",by urbanised Christians who lost touch with African culture and tradition. Because the white marria ...
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  • Kex 10 years ago

    Marian you ought to know most things in Ghana are completely illogical. My sister is getting married to an Englishman in England, and I have brought her attention to this same thing, that she keeps referring to the ceremony t ...
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  • Kwaapps 10 years ago

    This is what I have been trying in vain to drum into your thick skulls what the blackman is doing to himself. But thank god this girl has picked up on something taught in her lectures whereas her compatriots just saw it as ju ...
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  • Adu Twum 10 years ago

    Very Well put, they are not necessary

  • Kwobia ( Toronto ) 10 years ago

    Ghanains are unable to value their cultures.That's why they still value the white wedding.Same issue surrounding funerals in Ghana.

  • nicman@atl 10 years ago

    they cannot support anything they preach themselves. in ghana we marry two times , have three names, worship traditional gods and white man's god we are a confused people. to marry one woman in ghana alone is like building a ...
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  • Wofa Kodjo 10 years ago

    Most our problems are coming from the pulpit and Christians today can be likened to the pharisees of old. Many preachers are in themselves confused and therefore do not or have little idea about what they teach. If a couple t ...
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  • Yaw Owusu 10 years ago

    I totally agree with your statement. I live in New York and our marriage is the customary type. We are happy and save the money for children's education.

  • b awonye 10 years ago

    Truly a white wedding is what is known as the party, the razzmatazz, fanfare, etc. It is where all races, and traditions can join in.

    The traditional one is a full one called engagement, perhaps due to the ring being pres ...
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