{"id":15490,"date":"2019-10-15T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T09:49:43","slug":"kwanjula-what-rituals-happen-when-the-groom-is-taken-inside-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=15490","title":{"rendered":"Kwanjula: What rituals happen when the groom is taken inside the house?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Maria Immaculate Owechi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, during the Buganda traditional weddings, the bride\u2019s aunt has to take the groom inside the house for further discussions after identifying him. During these discussions, the groom is only escorted by a few people from his side as others wait in the tent. Later, the father of the bride gets out gets out of the house and is served food with the rest of the people in the tent. The groom, <em>ssenga<\/em> and the escorts of the groom eat from inside the house unlike him. The question is what happens inside the house at <em>kwanjula<\/em> ceremonies?<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-33.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-33-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-33-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/e-33-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the privacy? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/lifestyle\/heart-to-heart\/kwanjula-what-rituals-happen-when-the-groom-is-taken-inside-the-house--4130362\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Immaculate Owechi Today, during the Buganda traditional weddings, the bride\u2019s aunt has to take the groom inside the house for further discussions after identifying him. During these discussions, the groom is only escorted by a few people from his side as others wait in the tent. Later, the father of the bride gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15494,"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":[156],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1788],"class_list":["post-15490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kwanjula"],"authors":[{"term_id":1788,"user_id":9,"is_guest":0,"slug":"maria","display_name":"Maria Immaculate Owechi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/405334042ff4cb6d57772978665263cceb0c3c0d831627d12204804ddaca40a7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Immaculate Owechi","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23779,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions\/23779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}