Bride price in Eastern Nigeria: Facts, myths
Planning to marry an Igbo lady, then forget everything they told you that you can’t afford to marry an Igbo lady because most of these things are lies.
If your fiancée says ‘yes’ to your marriage proposal, then the next thing is to forward your marriage proposal to her family, through the parents.You’ll first, have to go alone to her parents after, which you will take your family to see her bigger family. If you are lucky to have received a positive response from the lady’s family, the in-laws-to-be will give the man and his family a list of the next steps to enable them to prepare for the customary Igbo traditional marriage ceremony.
The list includes the gift of Umu-ada, they need to buy pieces of clothes , shoes and bags and jewellery, etcetera.Another item on the list is the gift for , which includes kolanuts, palm wine, bottles of Schnapps, carton of assorted drinks and goat. Also on the list is the general gift , which includes bags of rice, bags of salt, palm oil, kerosene, stockfish, tubers of yam etcetera.
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