{"id":21448,"date":"2022-06-07T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=21448"},"modified":"2022-06-07T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T11:19:36","slug":"do-you-desire-a-small-simple-and-inexpensive-wedding-here-are-some-ideas-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=21448","title":{"rendered":"The idea of having a simple inexpensive wedding in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Whitehead, a tweep and head of Whitehead Communications turned to her Twitter account to express her desire for a small, simple, and inexpensive wedding. She tweeted,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m SO looking forward to NEVER having a big wedding!?For real, I\u2019d LOVE to never organise or spend money on a wedding at all!?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I\u2019m happy for other people who enjoy these things, but me, it\u2019d rather spend on a farm house &amp; kids.?God please let my partner understand!??<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anne Whitehead (@whiteheadcomm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whiteheadcomm\/status\/1533381370034237440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the thread people engaged with her about the sentiment. Arthur Musinguzi asked her to break down how she would do that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pueblo-bonito-pacifica-wedding-venues-refresca-terrace-01-5cf0475338b3b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pueblo-bonito-pacifica-wedding-venues-refresca-terrace-01-5cf0475338b3b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pueblo-bonito-pacifica-wedding-venues-refresca-terrace-01-5cf0475338b3b-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pueblo-bonito-pacifica-wedding-venues-refresca-terrace-01-5cf0475338b3b-120x86.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pretty simple, just not have a wedding. Maybe visit the court house to sign the papers if I want to legalise the marriage and host a very small party for my closest friends\/fam at home after. Low key, stress free, cheap and full of private joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anne Whitehead (@whiteheadcomm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whiteheadcomm\/status\/1533710770739073026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;How about if the partner wants to throw you that big wedding?&#8221; Emmanuel Sempa asked.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5D885694-676C-468B-95B2-47394431D833.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5D885694-676C-468B-95B2-47394431D833.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5D885694-676C-468B-95B2-47394431D833-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>To this, she replied, &#8220;I would decline because the event would stress me and I wouldn\u2019t enjoy it. I would offer my surely reasonable partner multiple counter proposals for where else our resources could be invested to nurture our lives and marriage long term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To bring out the point about how hard it is for a bride or groom to go for a small wedding, Caroline Ariba commented that although she didn&#8217;t want a graduation party, her mother said not having one would be like punishing her.<\/p>\n<p>To this, Whitehead replies that &#8220;Indeed, these big weddings are often more for family that the couple. I am privileged in this way that my parents had a rebelliously small and cheap wedding and would be totally fine with me doing the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phillo Mavad, who goes by Acholi on Twitter then asked, &#8220;Is it because you don\u2019t want something big, or is it because you would rather do something else with the money? Some weddings can be small but super expensive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/wedding-1-640x427-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/wedding-1-640x427-1.webp 640w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/wedding-1-640x427-1-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whitehead replied that she neither wants expense or the stress,\u00a0 &#8220;I could go for something small and cheap maybe &#8211; just a gathering of close friends\/fam for a simple party in the backyard, like my parents did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mwanyi says that she suffers from anxiety and would prefer a small wedding but it is a hard bargain with her family, &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Partner is okay with small ceremony or even just hitting up the registrar. Family, not so easy. I&#8217;ve been campaigning since my late teens when I was my mum&#8217;s wedding handbag. Compromise has been big kwanjula and small white wedding.&#8221; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1544\" height=\"1030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding.jpg 1544w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/big-nigeria-wedding-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1544px) 100vw, 1544px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A user going by the name, Son of An African says, &#8220;Big weddings just to show off to people that won&#8217;t even check on you as you deal with the debts and loans. Just a small reasonable after-party and church service for those that wanna do it in church is enough!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Kukundakwe who had a small wedding says it worked out fine for them,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is exactly what I did. I could actually afford funding 100% of our wedding but we chose not to. Only us, our families and a very few friends were involved. We are happy!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nelson Kukundakwe (@KukwaNelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KukwaNelson\/status\/1533825648233521152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Whitehead, a tweep and head of Whitehead Communications turned to her Twitter account to express her desire for a small, simple, and inexpensive wedding. She tweeted, I\u2019m SO looking forward to NEVER having a big wedding!?For real, I\u2019d LOVE to never organise or spend money on a wedding at all!? Yeah, I\u2019m happy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21453,"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":"1","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":"1","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":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1785],"class_list":["post-21448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice"],"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\/21448","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=21448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21460,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448\/revisions\/21460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21448"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=21448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}