The Wedding Bells to Ring Loud
As the wedding season is upon the capital, Samson Ashenafi, 31, the firstborn of his family, envisioned a picture-perfect ceremony with his then-fiance, Hawi Getachew. The couple hankered a simple and intimate setting with no more than 100 people, but being from a deeply rooted traditional background where ceremonies are considered shallow if they do not have the whole nine yards, the pressure forced them to exponentiate the guest list more than five folds.
They spent over 150,000 Br to rent the East-West Hall around the Gofa Mebrat Hail area, including the decoration. The production cost w...