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| Pastor Ituah Ighodalo & the couple |
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| Dad and bride |
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| Mr and Mrs Chike & Olufunke Ogeah |
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| Mrs. Uchenna Awosemo nee Ogeah |
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| Mr & Mrs Mayowa & Uchenna Awosemo |
This wedding party most definitely, is what can be described as the perfect year starter without a doubt. This humongous wedding party, if we can try to describe it most appropriately, would most definitely help decide what a first class, well planned, well managed, well attended, high brow wedding should be like in 2020.
However you want to describe it, it met the yardstick by whatsoever parameters you may want to determine it by or judge it. It would most certainly be one of the weddings of the year 2020, after the year might have ended and then the top 10 weddings of the year would have been picked.
And we are talking here about a real wedding party & not a film at all, with the hashtag #MUchlove2020 to go. We had anticipated it knowing who Ogbueshi Chike Ogeah is, but we were still a bit surprised though at what we saw live. It was the ceremony of the wedding between the eldest and only daughter of the amiable, highly respected, highly connected, tall fine man, who was the former Commissioner for Information in Delta State, Chike Ogeah, who with his supremely gorgeous wife, Olufunke Ogeah, who is not a push over at all too like her husband, in conjunction with the family of the Awosemos hosted, the wedding of the month and by extension a candidate for the wedding of the year of their children, Uchenna Adaora Ogeah to Mayowa Awosemo.
This couple can be described as one of the luckiest couples in town. Reason been that, their parents and family members pulled all the strings and did all they could to make this happen in an awesome way. For Chike and Olufunke, this is the 1st wedding ever of a few to come, that they would host for their children. Uchenna is their eldest child and only daughter and a super brilliant and well behaved one at that too. The Chemical Engineer graduate of Aston University, Birmingham, England with a Masters degree, is the 1st of 3, made up of 1 daughter and 2 handsome sons. She works at Exxon Mobil and her colleagues, stormed the wedding in numbers to celebrate her, all looking super cool. Mayowa, the handsome groom, now the husband, is not a pushover in any way or manner too. His dad was a power house member of the then NTA, in her heydays. No wonder that we saw the likes of Sienne Allwell-Brown, Ruth Benamasia, Ronke Ayuba, John Momoh, now owner of Channels TV and more at the wedding reception. Mayowa is a graduate of Economics and International Relations with both 1st and 2nd degrees from Bradford University, also in the UK, he presently works at the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
No one that attended this wedding will forget it in a hurry, the merriment was unparalleled. And all who have the means, the wherewithal, the resources to organize a first class shindig for the kids, would have gone back to the drawing board, to go and re-plan, having seen this classy one and having it at the back of their mind as a guide.
The Marquee at Harbour Point was well chosen as a venue. The wedding reception itself was ably planned by event architect of note, Florence H, ably led and owned by Ibidunni Ighodalo, whose very handsome husband, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, officiated the church wedding service. Pastor Ituah, as most prefer to address him, is the lead pastor at Trinity House on Water Corporation Drive and he has been the bride's dad close friend now of close to or about 40 years.
So even after officiating a beautiful solemnization at his church for the couple, which was also very well attended by all, he was up and about at the wedding reception also too.
There were 120 tables of 10 chairs each available for the guests, who came in torrents from as early as 3.30pm. The venue was planned for 1200 guests. But we believe, it could have hosted as many as 1500 guests, on the day. The wedding theme was gold, so the color was somewhat prominent. The walkway, which was gold led to the gold raised platform or better still dance platform right in front of the beautiful stage. Which was set up to be the cynosure of all eyes. Kudos to the organizers for the neat arrangements. From all angles, you cannot miss that stage, it was a glaring center of attraction.
Just the couple alone, were the prince and princess of the day. So nothing must over shadow them. It was arranged in a way that none can take the shine off them. On their left was the deejay stand, with the Cake stand just at the front on the left. Then on their right was the bandstand, where the Veentage Band were. And this band was outstanding all the way and all through. They gave an extraordinary account of themsleves. So good were they that they in fact, left the Deejay in limbo, till the after party whoxh was much much later.
Now we know that a KSA doesn't have to be at a party before it would rock and rock and be seen to be a 1st grade one. Veentage Band gave a mishmash, a potpourri, a mixture of the exciting old and the new. It was a diverse range or mix that appealed to all &bsundry, both old and young. It was 'funtastic'.
The guest-list was something else too. To start with, going about naming names might not actually do justice to the event, as there were too many classy and popular people, too numerous to mention that attended. So we would just attempt to name just a few, so it wouldn't be like we didn't try to. There were Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila (speaker of the Federal House) and wife, Prince Dapo Abiodun (Governor of Ogun State) & wife, Prince Nduka Obaigbena publisher of This Day Newspaper, Yomi and Oyinkan Badejo Okusanya, Tayo Ayeni of Skymit, Lai Oriwo, Dr. Eyimofe Atake, SAN and wife, Ruth Osime, Helen Ajayi, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi of SIFAX Group and wife, Richard Mofe Damijo, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan's daughter Orone, Nnamdi Okonkwo (MD of Fidelity Bank) and wife, Maiden Ibru (publisher of Guardian Newspaper), Bisi Olatilo, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Segun Awolowo, Reuben Abati, Dr Lanre Tejuosho. Titi Gomez, Ernest Ndukwe, Waheed Olagunju, Anselm Tabansi, Alistair Soyode, Ayo Subair and too many others too many to mention. Every one was gaily dressed and the men were all neat and quite dapper in their outfits.
Daddy of the adorable bride was quite emotional and it showed on his face for a long period of time. The friends of the couple came in great numbers to celebrate them and men, some of the young ladies were dazzling in no small measure.
Apparently husband and wife were introduced to each other by the husband's twin sister over a decade ago. She revealed this as she gave the toast. Muyiwa's twin sister and Uchenna have been friends now for eons. And she was the only female on the side of the groom's men and she wore her own green suit too like one of them, looking scrumptiously gorgeous.
Party was still in full swing as at 9pm when we took our leave.
Kudos to the families for a swell party. Salute also to the orgainisers for a good job well done.
More Pictures after the break.
