 You guys met in the U.S., you decided to get married in Africa, why Africa? I think culture, we want to share something different. A lot of people from, if you've seen, a lot of people from America are here, Europe, we've never been to Africa the first time. We know a lot of friends from abroad. We pre-culture with our businesses, culture at its best. So let them come experience it for the first time. That's what we wanted them to see. Yeah, I definitely wanted my family to experience God the way I have, because most Americans don't come home. And I wanted this to be an opportunity for Americans to come home, with a group of people, we have fun together. So that's why I wanted to do it here, for the experience for everyone. I really love that, and I just want to ask you, do you feel at home at the moment? Oh yeah, definitely. And if you have a message to all African diaspora, or that message, especially African-Americans. Come home. And yeah, she's part of us right now, come get a wife, man. I definitely give you a wife in here. Are you sure? Very sure, bro. Okay, well, make sure. And if you can't do it, I'll do it for you too. It's a beautiful thing, and it feels so good when you marry the right person. Listen, I keep on saying that this generation of Africans are uniting African-Americans. I mean, they were taken away from us by force, but we are bringing them back to the motherland with love. Do you guys like it or not? We are bridging the gap between Africans in Africa and Africans in the diaspora. And I know and believe that nothing is going to stop that. I mean, personally, I was super excited to witness such a beautiful traditional wedding in Ghana. Me too, my brother from Ghana, and my sister from the Americas. This beautiful union happened in the motherland. And in the motherland, we have a beautiful country called Ghana. And in Ghana, we have several tribes. And every tribe has their own unique way of conducting their marriages. So, hey, I want to introduce to you the Ashanti Kingdom, the Ashanti way of conducting marriages. And this is what we're going to learn today. This close here, these fabrics are all for the right to be, okay? Different ones, so she can also show of that. She has a husband, or she's married to a husband who can't, who wants her to always look good among her friends. One unique thing that I saw in this traditional wedding, which is even different from my own tribe, is the fact that the groom's family brought the bride prize and all the items that the bride needs, though without the presence of the bride and the groom. And I was like, oh my goodness, what is happening? Today, if the family, which is you, except for Nana, who is representing the family, accepts the gift or and given the bride today, these items represent, these items is what the bride would use to cook her first meal for her husband. Apparently, this is how the Ashantis conducts their traditional wedding. So the groom's family present the items on behalf of the groom. And if the bride's family accepts it, that's when they're going to call the groom to come to find out, are you sure you're the one who sent your family to present these items on your behalf? And the guy must respond, yes. If he says no, he got to go back. That's incredible. This is something that I didn't know. What you saw is not beautiful, man. Listen, that Ashanti culture is extremely beautiful. And I loved how all the groom's men, including the groom, dress to this occasion. That is a beautiful African attire right there with a beautiful dancing culture in there. Man, God bless that Ashanti kingdom, man. When the groom's comes in, that is when they ask him the ultimate question. Are you sure you're the one who sent your family to bring these items on your behalf? As soon as he says yes, it's time to bring the bride. Thank you, like yours. Like yours. Nanna, when you're with them, they will come to your house. Because I say, well, this is a cry. I'm not afraid. As soon as the groom comes in, they'll come to your house. And I said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes. I said, if you're with them, they'll come to my house, It's very, very important. Get a bride for a wife. I use them once. So they ask him that three times and he has to say yes for confirmation. I don't know. Thank you. I don't want to be a sister. Right now. I need you right now to be with me. Go. I don't want to be with you. I don't want to be with you. I don't want to be with you. If you're saying that Maya, are you sure this lady is an African American? Yes, she's an African American, but she's home. This is where you all belong. And I love the fact that she immersed herself in the African culture. She never felt like she's a foreigner in here. Brothers and sisters, this is your home. Welcome home. We'll embrace you as our own. And the fact that she was even dancing to the tune of the traditional drums. It makes the ancestors wake up from their graves and say that we are so proud of you. Our lovely daughter. Welcome home. Feel our home. Enjoy the motherland. It belongs to Africans whether you like it or not. Have you liked the video? I know you all are enjoying the video. Like the video. I mean say something nice to me in the comment section. It's our favorite village boy. I'm super excited because listen, the union, the revolution of Africans and African Americans coming together is happening. This time around, we're not going to use guns and gunpowders. We're just going to bring you back with love. If I tell you that I love you today, will you make it to the motherland? I love you so much. Welcome home. Beautiful bride is here. This is when it gets more interesting. It's time to bless the union. But before they do that, the bride's father needs to take the bride and go and give the bride to the groom's dad because don't forget initially it was the groom's father who brought the items to the family of the bride. So now that the bride is here, the father of the bride needs to go and hand over the daughter to the groom's father. And the groom's father will hand over the lady to the son and say that my son, you finally found your rib and you couldn't do that by yourself. But I had to do that for you. Shame on you. No, the father didn't say that. But the father actually congratulated the son and the marriage continue. The name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit. And of the Holy Spirit. And they will go to the bride. They will come to me and say, hello bless you and keep you. Let God's people say amen. And give me the weapon God. The Bible. In the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit. And of the Holy Spirit. It's done. It's time. I mean, this is a union between an African and an African American. Yeah. What do you think of it? I think it's beautiful. It was really beautiful. Nana Emma is a friend of mine. Okay. Yeah. And what she's done here is marvelous. This wedding. Wow. The wedding of this Andre. It's wonderful. I really love it. I enjoy it. And also I get to meet you. Yeah. How long have you been in Ghana though? Huh? How long have you been in Ghana? I've been in Ghana. Gosh. The first time I came was 2000. Wow. And then I came a couple of years later and bought myself a pot of land in Edisu. And then decided to make a little guest house. Especially for the diasporan people. Okay. Yeah. I need to visit you one of these days. Oh, definitely. You have to invite me. I will invite you. We're all Africans, right? We're all Africans. Yes. So first of all, message to Africans in diaspora. Message to the Africans? In diaspora. In diaspora. Oh, please. Ghana is home. Please come. Yeah. Come and help us to develop this place. It's a beautiful place. This is our home. This is where we come from. Okay. Okay. As a Jamaican speaking. Well, I feel the roots. Yeah. This is where I'm from. Do you feel like you're back home now? Oh, definitely. Because when you go, I don't know if you've been to Jamaica, but it's so similar. Okay. Yeah. The culture, we speak some of the three words as well. Wow. And yeah, what we do, like say for instance, the dookunu that they have there. Dookunu, yeah. We make dookunu too. We call it dookunu, but we use sweet potato for it. Yeah. It's the first time we're tasting some of the Ghanaian one. Okay. But they have so much in common. That's amazing. Yeah. It's lovely. Absolutely. The food that is sitting there, the typical traditional. Local cuisine. Local cuisine, that's the sort of what I want to say. Everything. What do they can feel? Are they snacks? They're like snacks, you know? Bro, I need to have a picture with you. You need to have a picture with me. My wife loves your video. Thank you. See? See? So... Hi. The thing that you need to know is that Ghanaians eat heavy, right? So they cannot come to... Hi! Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. One thing that you need to know is that Ghanaians eat heavy anywhere. Whether being a wedding, a funeral, or even a naming ceremony. So on this day, they have to represent you. Eat all the local cuisine. Oh, you don't want to make the video? Yeah. Every dish that you're looking for, I mean, every local cuisine that you can name off in Ghana, they got it here, bro. I love the fact that even though the lady was not born in Ghana, but she decided to go with the traditional marriage of Ghana, and the following day, we did the white wedding. Happy Sunday to each and everyone watching this video. Today is actually day two of the wedding. How was the first day for you? It was really colorful. Yeah. So beautiful, really good food. So much fun. It was so African, you know. Such things make you feel proud to be African. And now we're going to have the white wedding today because the girl is from America. So it's only right for you to have a white wedding knowing that you're representing someone else's culture. So we did the African culture because the guy is African. And today we're doing the white wedding because the girl is from America. So yeah, come along with us. I'm kind of cool today. Just going to sit somewhere and chill and enjoy. Enjoy the glasses. Yeah. Be fine. Looking fine. Massive and enable them, be merciful and enable them through the power of the Holy Spirit to make and keep the vows they are about to make through Jesus Christ our Lord, our man. My friends are saying, take your time. You are rushing too much. You know, it's so precious and you need to handle with care. Mark, show something for us to see whether she is the one or not. If she is the one, just give her small kids or, you know, heart for us to see that she is the one. Good. Now you have convinced us that she is the one. For this person, see a presence to witness. Mark said this after me. I call upon this person here, presence to witness. I call on this person's will to present. I call upon this person's. I call on this person's. Here, presence. Here's presence. To witness that. To witness that. I, Mark Quatin. I, Mark Quatin. Do take you. Do take you. Whether young. Whether young. To be my lawful wedded wife. To be my lawful wedded wife. To have. To have. And to hold. And to hold. From this day forward. From this day forward. For better, for worse. For better and for worse. For rich and for poor. For rich and for poor. In sickness. And in sickness. And in health. And in health. To love. To love. And to cherish. And cherish. So devs shall separate us. So devs shall separate us. According to God's Holy Law. According to God's Holy Law. Holy Law. And today I pledge myself. And today I pledge myself. Then back to young. I called upon this person's here. I call upon this person's here. Present to witness that. Present to witness that. I have young. I have a young. Do take you. Do take you. My quarten. My quarten. To be my lawful wedded husband. To be my lawful wedded husband. To have and to hold you. To have and to hold you. From this day forward. From this day forward. For better, for worse. For better or for worse. For richer. For poorer. For richer or poorer. In sickness. In sickness. And in health. And in health. To love. To love. And to cherish. To cherish. So death shall separate us. So death shall separate us. According to God's holy law. According to God's holy law. And today I pledge myself. And to this I pledge myself. Amen. Amen. As a sign of the love and trust between us. And the trust between us. And the trust between us. With my body. And with my body. I honor you. I honor you. I honor you. All that I am. All that I am. I give to you. I give to you. And all that I have. And all that I have. I share with you. I share with you. Within the love of God. The father. The father. The son. The son. And the holy spirit. The holy spirit. Amen. Amen. Amen. I give you this ring. I give you this ring. As a sign of the love. As a sign of the love. And trust between us. And trust between us. With my body. I honor you. With my body I honor you. all that I am, I give to you. All that I am, I give to you. And all that I have, I share with you. And all that I have, I share with you. Within the love of God. Within the love of God. The Father. The Father. The Son. The Son. And the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit. Amen. Young as a newly couple in the whole wide world this afternoon. In the name of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. But every day, I thank you, my best man, a boy from childhood, all coming through here. My main guy here. The reason why you see America's a God, a parent. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Oh, wow. How does this day feel, though? Wonderful. A long time coming. It's a lot. But we got here. The woman is more happy than the man, man. Generally is how it goes. Generally. Is it your first time on the motherland? No, it's like my fifth time. Fifth time? Yes, fifth time. It's a five-time. Somebody asked me to ask you a question. Yeah, why African-American? African-American, African-American, wherever the country you're from doesn't really matter, right? Could be Asian. It's about loving the person who the person is. How they are as a person. And this is the country. Tribalism isn't really important to us. It's about the heart, honestly. That's beautiful. They chose a traditional wedding and also the white wedding. Yes, please. I mean, did you understand what was happening yesterday? I did. For the most part, I understood the process, but they were still speaking in trees. So I understand some words were not all of them, but I did understand the concept and what was going on. What was the first tree wedding you ever learned? My first name is Junsu. That's very important. That's very important, okay. And listen, I just want to know, how did both of you meet? I like to work a lot. So we met at the ice cafe in Atlanta. We did. That day, one of my bartenders called out, so I was bartending. She came to the bar and ever since then, five years ago, we've been together ever since. Wow. What has been the cultural difference between you and Junsu? Ah, cultural difference. I like pounded yams. She likes sweet potato yams. That's the biggest difference, maybe. No, but all the jokes aside, it's more of a just learning each other, learning customs, how she does things in her family, how we do stuff with my family, that type of thing. But it's smooth transition, sometimes rough, but it's been smooth. Do you want to say something? Um, cultural difference. So it's there, if he says certain things, I might not quite understand what he means by them, or I might say certain things that could be offensive, but I don't mean offense by it. So I think we have great communication. We're able to kind of talk about it afterwards and establish what was not supposed to be said or what should have been said. So there is that small cultural difference. And that's with any couple, not even if you're from whatever country you're from. You can be both two Americans or two Africans in your dating. Everybody's not raising the same household, and people tend to think that people think like them. But no one thinks like someone else. There's multiple different people. So my next question would be like, how did both of you overcome the challenge? Just patience, communication. I don't think I was being preached today. We kind of had to learn over the years, but it's kind of re-instilled in you on the wedding day. So that's pretty much in my opinion. I'm important, like don't give up. Even when it gets hard in the beginning, you have to learn to understand the person. I think people think it's supposed to be easy from the beginning, all smooth cells, but it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, just like anything in life. So I don't think anyone should give up through the challenges, you know, keep trying. But if something's not working and you know it's not working, there's no changes being made, then of course, you know, go your separate ways. But if you see that the person accepts you for who you are, there's genuine love, y'all can come to each other at the end of the day, you're best friends, you want to tell that person something first, I will keep that and I wouldn't give up. Don't quit. Basically, Black love is needed. In societies where people push you to be independent, you can't do it on your own. And I think in this life, we're meant to have a partner. I think our life partner is something that we all wish we have, even if we don't think of it every day. But other than that, just keep striving. It's not going to be easy. No one told us, married counseling, your mother, your father, everybody tells you it's not going to be easy, but you pick somebody who you want to go to that ride with on that tough road, it's the best choice you can make. Where is the honeymoon? Ratch? We're on the honeymoon base games. Oh, all right. No, not really. A little bit sad. We had three options, there was Bora Bora, there was somebody who gave us Greece, another person gave us Bali, so we're trying to figure out which one Indonesia was left for. Because I've never had Zanzibar. Zanzibar, Zanzibar is in Africa, you're close to Zanzibar, just four hours away. Oh, just four hours. Now I'm on. Okay, now I'm going there next. Yeah, I had it. Zanzibar, Zanzibar. It's locked in now, it's locked in now. Before you leave, I have to make sure you visit Zanzibar before you. That's Tanzania, correct? Tanzania, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we had it on the list, but we didn't know. It was in Tanzania. I heard of it before. Believe me, it's the best place to have your honeymoon. Zanzibar, you don't have to go anywhere, it's in Africa. You're married in Africa, right? It's true. I even wanted to know why you chose Africa to get married. I think culture, I want to share with something different. A lot of people from, if you've seen, a lot of people in America are here, Europe, who've never been to Africa the first time. We know a lot of friends from abroad. We pre-culture with our businesses, culture at its best, so let them come experience it for the first time. That's what we wanted them to see. Yeah, I definitely wanted my family to experience God the way I have, because most Americans don't come home. And I wanted this to be an opportunity for Americans to come home, with a group of people, we have fun together. So that's why I wanted to do it here, for the experience for everyone else. I really love God and I just want to actually do it for the whole mother moment. Oh yeah, definitely. And if you have a message on African diaspora, or that message, especially African-Americans. Come home. Come home. And yeah, she's part of us right now. Come get a wife, man. I definitely give you a wife in here. Are you sure? Very sure, bro. Okay, we'll make sure. And if you can't do it, I'll do it for you too. It's over. And in Ghana, very simple. Yeah, very simple. And what do you think about the white wedding, so far? The one looked so good, it was so classy. They even gave us this. And it's... I've got their names on it. Yeah, they were the bride and the groom. So cool. Exactly. The day has not ended yet. You know, in Ghana, you cannot go for wedding without food. When I go to US, I know what it's gonna be. Yeah. Your first time on the model. Yes, this is my first time on the model. How do you feel being here for the first time? I feel like I'm at home. I feel great. I love the energy, the spirit, the people. I love it. I mean, what was your perception before coming to the model? My perception was that I probably wouldn't enjoy myself. I would just probably feel strange. But I feel very connected. How are you doing? I think you are the happiest woman on Earth, right? Oh, yes. How do you feel? Your son is married right now. Can you even express your impression? Yeah, I think it's an international wedding. You know, because I'm meeting people from everywhere. And they were like, oh, we used to eat your food in Atlanta. And I'm like, oh. Jamaican. Jamaican? Yeah, everyone is here today. Yes, yes, yes. So let me know, your son is married to an African-American. Yeah. When your son brought an African-American home, what was your first impression? I was kind of, you know, scared a little bit. Why? Why were you scared, mama? You are not scared anymore? No, no. I can't trade hair for anything. She is so... That makes me love her. Can I tell you something here? When I came in here, your whole family have embraced me. It's like, now I'm part of the family. Oh, yes. I've never seen such, received such a reception before. Like everyone. Oh, welcome home, Maya. It's good to see you. Oh my goodness, it's amazing. I love it. I wish you all the best and I'll see you soon again on YouTube. This man is on YouTube. After the white wedding, there was a reception. And if I tell you that this is a three-day wedding, this is what I meant. Probably let's take it like to be four days because we started on Friday, Friday evening, Saturday morning, Sunday morning, and Sunday afternoon. And then we still entered 12 o'clock a.m. with a lot of dancing steps. Listen, it was the beautiful thing I've ever experienced. And I just hope that you all on this channel, especially the single ones, will get married and invite me. Because all I want to do is to come and eat, dance, bless your marriage, and go back home. It's a favorite village where I'm the Ghana baby. I hope you guys learned something new. I hope you guys enjoyed this whole vlog. And believe it or not, I'll be back again with another one. I am Maya. Peace out.