{"id":14780,"date":"2019-09-12T18:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=14780"},"modified":"2023-04-24T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:37:27","slug":"the-trick-to-limiting-our-guest-list-was-keeping-it-intimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=14780","title":{"rendered":"The trick to limiting our guest list was keeping it intimate"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Esther Nantambi<\/strong><\/p>\n

They joined the same school in 2007. Two strangers in a sea of 500 other Senior One students at Mengo Senior School. Just another small girl in an oversized khaki skirt and a boy in Khaki shorts, Agnes Nabbaale and Samuel Mbabaali could not at the time have guessed that their destinies were entwined.<\/p>\n

It took another two years for them to have a first encounter; in 2009 in Senior Three, where they had chosen subjects placing them in the same stream. They became the best of friends.\"\"<\/p>\n

Walking to the altar nine years later, Nabbaale was nervous, yet she knew without a doubt that she was marrying her best friend.<\/p>\n

She probably didn\u2019t remember Mbabaali’s self-proclaimed words, six years earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait for you to own my name,\u201d he had confessed one day in 2012 when he had asked her out on a date. Well, it wouldn\u2019t be long now. The violin had started to play in the grand cathedral of St. Paul Namirembe C.O.U, Nabbaale\u2019s cue to start her slow descent to the aisle.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cAll eyes on you, be humble, walk slowly. Remember to walk slowly! Everyone is looking at you\u2026\u201d Nabaale\u2019s panicked mind resounded as she walked to the pulpit. On the outside, all people could see was a nicely composed bride dressed in a mind-blowing beautiful gown.<\/p>\n

The man to whom she walked stood at the pulpit, his back turned to her because at Namirembe Cathedral, grooms are advised not to turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe always wanted an instrument to play when she walked down the aisle. I couldn\u2019t see her but I experienced every moment by watching my best man who played the violin. When he started to play, he was nervous and then he started smiling. That\u2019s how I knew she had entered, and I relaxed,\u201d Samuel recounts with a smile.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he turned, he was sweating a lot and tearing. I kept praying I wouldn\u2019t join in, \u201cadds Nabbaale.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was relieved she was there on time!\u201d says Mbabaali.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat? That\u2019s what was going through your mind when I entered?!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHoney, you know about you and time\u2026\u201d I sit listening silently, forgotten for a minute as the couple slips into a happy banter before I interrupt with prompts for more details; Click to read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Esther Nantambi They joined the same school in 2007. Two strangers in a sea of 500 other Senior One students at Mengo Senior School. Just another small girl in an oversized khaki skirt and a boy in Khaki shorts, Agnes Nabbaale and Samuel Mbabaali could not at the time have guessed that their destinies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1785],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-budget"],"authors":[{"term_id":1785,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"enantambi","display_name":"Esther Nantambi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b1fa0f938f32d805446562e1bb7c32da6a6c7e51bd320fd89d4ba0819146b78d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Esther","last_name":"Nantambi","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14780"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23940,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions\/23940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=14780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}