.. I Really Like The Comparison Between Sudanese Weddings And the Royal Wedding, And the Very Smart Comment About Cameramen Focusing On Light Skin girls Only. Answering You Question, We Do Have Wedding Planners, And Actually They Are Increasing In A Very Strange Way Lately, Anyone Wants To Be A Wedding Planner, It’s Not About Having Wedding Planners Or Not, It’s About the Whole Typical Sudanese Wedding Concept That People Have, Wedding Planners Won’t Make Any More Classy – If I Can Say – Of The Wedding, They’ll Put Much Effort On Making The Showing Off Contest Even More Disgusting, Changing This Will Take Going A Long Way In People’s Minds To Make “Afrah Afrah” A Worthy Watching Show.
loll the part with only zooming into white females is super funny, however you might not like what i have to say next. I truly do not understand why sudanese people have nothing good to say about sudan. Why can’t you see the good side of sudanese weddings? I do agree with most of your points but what you failed to mention is how in sudanese weddings you also get to see all your relatives and family who live outside sudan or outside khartoum (who put their lives on hold just to come celebrate with you and make it just that much more special). How friends and family get together and bond over small things and make happy memories out of them, like putting together the guest list or even something as simple as gathering around your grandmothers and great aunts and just singing old songs with them. Seeing how much effort the friends of the bride and groom put to help out with the preparations. Seeing how happy and proud the people around the bride and groom are of them, and how everyone is included and enjoying the celebration with the dancing and singing, even someone as far as the gardener who comes once every 2 weeks to work on the garden. Another thing that you criticized is the amount of money people spend, and later on, the chicken that tastes like plastic. In this case i think you were talking about two different social classes that should not be compared, these two points contradicted each other because you can either get the delicious food which will mean a lot of money was spent on the wedding (given the prices of food in sudan nowadays), or you’ll get the chicken that tastes like plastic which means not a lot of money was spent on the wedding. I think you need to make a choice there.
Well said Hannah. Plus, I wouldn’t go so far as to calling them “SHENANIGANS”. If you don’t like what they do (I don’t either), just respect their right to do it.
I love it when someone focuses on the positivity of our ways. We are a great people with lovely traditions. Thank you for mentioning that.
its a satirical piece its not meant to be complimentary…besides everything Jasmin mentioned is true – regardless of the social class. plastic chicken is plastic chicken. ps. why not write your article on sudanese weddings and submit it?? show the world your version of events…
The first wedding planner in the Sudan is called Samah Abugarga, incidentally my sister. Interesting piece. It touches on some of the more obvious aspects of Sudanese randomness. Is it time to minimise and focus on quality not quantity?
Sudanese wedding traditions are a major vice in our culture that accentuate differences in class and economic status. They are filled with horrible, demeaning practices, starting with the bleaching of the bride’s skin, to her parading around in lavish, revealing dresses to dance in front of an audience that’s practically frothing at the mouth. The nouveau riche have turned marriage into a disgusting show of wealth, money, and power. I am really sad that the younger generation, rather than fighting these archaic traditions, has perpetuated them in full force.
the whole thing is interesting.I loved the way she presented both the royal wedding and the sudanese one. And it is not if I choose the right word , a( formal) article so as to be criticised or to say it is right or wrong . the writter send messages behind the lines, the issue of light skin and dark skin. how a wide sector of sudanese ladies (even the educated and enlighted) want to bleach their faces using chemical recipies . Why they the do that ? Is it the society forced them to do so. is it an old -new culture that regard ligh skin as better than dark skin ? The issue of sudanese traditions, behaviours..etc. However I like the article very much.
It was agood comparison ..such writing may help to show to what extend we are very rich by that aunique respect to the other believe me we are full of good things we need just to shed some lights on
LOL i thought he focuses at me becoz im eating !!! i hate u camera man, never thought he is racist too, but with his light all girls should appear with a light skin
You are mistaken about the part where you said that there aren’t wedding planners. I have met 2 up until todays date, one from a company called “wedding Planners” i guess or something along them lines, and another lady who works alone not with a company as a wedding planner. Maybe you should check your sources. And I agree with Hannah El Nefeidi, mention at least some of the good things about the sudanese wedding, such as its uniqueness of having 2 different hennas for the bride and groom, and a ragees aroos, where literally every member of the audience is celebrating and happy, even if the reception (dokhla) wasn’t that fun. you got to admit that you will never see that much colourful clothing in your life time of tiyab (tours) except in india, and that much sparkle. The whole idea is just merry and cheerful.
Why do I smell Cynicism in Yasmin’s Prelude on Sudanese weddings. Oh, maybe because it was intended. Anyways, this article would serve Sudanese culture some justice if personal insights were not forcefully inserted. For an instance, I lost the idea why would we want to match a Sudanese culture with Royal weddings. Yes it takes the Sudanese bride extensive effort and time preparing for her big day, and it takes a medium class family lots of money to organize such an event for your youth (bride or groom), but this is all out of hospitality and sheer social habits that is a true virtue of the Sudanese community, that the writer needed to invest upon. On the other hand, I feel sorry for your plastic chicken experience Yasmin.
