Sunday we attended a wedding in Tamale of our friend Fataou. The bride and groom spend the day at different houses. First we went to the groom’s father’s house to greet the family.
From left to right: Fataou (the groom), Scott, James (our assemblyman),Katy, Jennifer, and Fataou’s father a sub chief of Tamale. The first thing the guests do is greet the elder of the family.
When you greet a chief he will give you kola. It is a stimulant you chew. It tastes awful and is really bitter. We took very small bites to be polite, but it takes a lot of effort not to gag.
Next we visited the sub chief’s wives. He has four. Katy and Jennifer borrowed two of their scarves for the picture. They were very sweet ladies.
Here are a few of the children at the groom’s family’s house.
We got another photo with the groom and his sister.
You can’t leave a wedding with out eating. Four of us shared this T-zed and groundnut soup with okra. The soup was great! They also served us malta drinks. Malta is a drink that tastes like liquid raison bran. It’s not really one of our favorites.
Jennifer and James eating the T-zed and soup from the communal bowl.
After eating we walked to go greet the bride at her family’s house. These are some members of the bride’s family we met on the way. The one in white is not the bride.
Katy, the bride, Jennifer and Scott. We had a blast at the wedding. This was only the first day of the wedding. The bride and groom will not actually see each other until the next day. A wedding can actually take up to four days.
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