Traditional Igbo Wedding

A Brief Description of a Grand Tradition in my Culture- A Wedding!!!

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Education

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• Igbo
• Wedding
• Kwenu

[Firegrlnikki]

Check again, this time dont make it so obvious of your tribalism. Cheers

[aitan844]

its not unusual for igbo to wear "buba and ero" and its also not unusal for yoruba to wear " up and down " igbo men also wear the traditional "Agbada" so sometimes it difficult to tell who is whom even in the music some parties will cater for all tastes and have igbo , yoruba and english music again the cross cultural mixing . its not a big deal.

[Firegrlnikki]

@aitan844 thank you. You have explained it correctly, I don't know how a mention of One ethnic group has people jumping from the bridge. Tribalistic ppl never will grow up.

[ExcelAndBeExcellent]

Bride's worth is like a dowry, right?

[Firegrlnikki]

@ExcelAndBeExcellent - yep! un like in asian/ Indian cultures, the man pays the family of the bride here

[runganomahuni]

yo voice is so annoying

[Firegrlnikki]

@runganomahuni  some say its pretty gift. Anyway thanks

[princesskaha]

@ebeledi: any Nigerian knows the different atires for the different cultures just by sight, I dunno, it just comes natural...I do agree that majority of the pictures featured are actually Yoruba rather than Igbo however, these days there's pretty much a lot of cross cultural dressing at weddings so it is getting harder to tell the difference...

[INVINCIBLEHEBREW]

these women are SO FREAKING BEAUTIFUL

[cherrybonbon81]

Thank you for the video, it was very informative. I am an Igbo born and raised in the UK and whilst ive been to a lot of church weddings, ive never been to a traditional igbo wedding, so I am trying to learn about them. Do you have any more resources I can refer to?

[aitan844]

@Emeka7777 the title seems to be the problem it is incorrect you could suggest that the channel owner clarify it because not everyone understands these things

[Emeka7777]

@aitan844 The video clearly says Igboland. Lagos and Western Nigeria are never considered Igboland. I appreciate the effort you are making to educate some people who have never witnessed Igbo traditional marriage, but there is need to present the right information. The title says Igbo Tradional Wedding while he photographs depict Yoruba traditional wedding. It might be good to change the title. Call it Yoruba Traditional Wedding and change references to Igboland to Yoruba land,

[aitan844]

@Emeka7777 i wasnt talking about what people wear in igbo land was i ? i was talking about lagos and western nigeria here its something i am familar with.

[Emeka7777]

@aitan844 You can take a trip to Onitsha, Aba or Owerri or Enugu or any other city in Igboland to withness Igbo traditional wedding and see if people are going to wear Aso-Oke.

[Emeka7777]

@aitan844 We need to understand the context of the video. It is about traditional wedding dressing. Would you, a Yoruba wear Igbo attire at your traditional marriage? I am Igbo and was raised in Lagos. I wore Agbada and my wife (also Igbo) wore "Iro and buba" at our traditional marriage. Growing up in Lagos made us assimilate the culture of of our host community(Yoruba). An Igbo man that never lived in Yoruba land would never dress up in a typical Yoruba attire for his traditional marriage.

[KCBombay]

great vid! thnx for the post

[aitan844]

people who are also located in middle and eastern belt of nigeria .. I went to Unilag and never went in for the "Ngbati , Ngbati" mentality I made friends with whoever regardless of their tribe, worked for me and still does till this day.. i only speak yoruba with those who understand the language not saying this is a rule but again it works for me.

[aitan844]

@Emeka7777 i am yoruba however i also wear "up and down" its not a big deal especially in LAGOS where many igbo live and work and speak yoruba ... also we have yoruba who live in igboland too.. remembering that igbo and yoruba also live in the northern part of nigeria where i served many yrs ago , have you heard of "Sabon Gari"? an area in KANO where igbo people live and trade ... we are quite flued and also we have other smaller tribes like the ijaw, Delta region people, Efik people, Benin