Kenya's main crop of export has always been tea.There is alot of it available country wide, of good quality and the price has always been pocket friendly. Probably that is where the famous saying was coined "any time is tea time." I am a big fun of tea and I should understand that saying better. That said, wedding industry has become a serious industry that could borrow from the same saying. Why is that so? In the past, Nairobi Weddings were famously done on Saturdays for a majority, a few on Friday and Sunday mostly for the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) but there has been a complete switch.
What makes Any Day a Wedding Day? Well public holidays are great days to get married in Kenya. Wednesdays to Fridays are seeing more weddings being done here. It might have been the trend some where else but its finally caught up.
Why do Weddings on odd days? I once tried to find out from a few couples and one thing stood out from the response I got: to cut down on guests and have a small intimate wedding. Why not just do a card only wedding? Well, Kenya like most African countries, still have a communal feel when it comes to weddings and social events. One response that I found interesting is I invited you to mine/my brother's/sister's so you should reciprocate! The one response that I once got from a group of 3 women-If you can't invite me to your wedding then don't bother to tell me when you have a funeral!Wow some are overwhelming but should instilled guilt by your to-be or not to-be guests determine who comes to your wedding? Its a couple decision at the end of the day.
An interesting Scenario is He might come from a large family and his parents would like a chance to invite to Nairobi all the relatives from rural home, including the ones in the cities and that can be a crowd of 300 all together and He hasn't invited his friends neither has she invited her crowd. Bearing in mind the famous habit around for guests to invite their own friends to the wedding without the couple's consent. Its no wonder the crowd can easily grow to between 500 and 700 people attending a wedding.
Back to the earlier on discussed strategy some couples use. They employ what I considered earlier on when discussing on tea-any time is wedding time method. Last year a wedding reception I knew of started slightly after 8 pm and you had to drive in to get to the reception. The result?- A few people attended those who had cars and once who could car pool and the cost of the wedding reception was drastically reduced.
Two couples tried that method of far drive in reception but it failed on them. The reason being. The receptions were done during the day on a Friday and a few guests paid a few more shillings and the matatus drove them to the reception and came back for them. So even though any time is wedding time to some. If you want an intimate wedding, communicate with your guests: make it a card only affair. You will upset a few but still get what you aimed for.
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