My cousin's Wedding event:
I have family that lives in Indiana and one of the daughters of the family of 6 was preparing for marriage for Saturday October 19th. I love going to weddings, especially ones that incorporate different cultures inside the wedding. Since I come from an African Family and my cousin is African and the person she is marrying white, I was excited to see the merge of the American culture and African culture together in matrimony. I've actually been to multiple interracial weddings, between white and Asian people, Black and White, Black and Asian and same race weddings as well. When there is a cultural collaboration in a wedding I believe that it makes the wedding more memorable for not only the bride and the groom but for the people coming to the wedding to support the two people getting married.
One tradition that I was so happy to be a part of since I was part of the family of the bride was the traditional Lappa laying of cloth for special occasion. Lappa is the Liberian term for African attire in Liberia, in America its known as Dashiki but every African country has its term for African clothing. Lappa laying can happen at graduations, award ceremonies or weddings. The tradition is basically a group of supporters showing gratitude to family or a person being recognized in a event by laying multiple pieces of clothing (lappa) in a carpet pattern and the person or people being recognized walks over the clothing. Excitement usually occurs with other supporters and money is thrown at the people being recognized and tambourines or other instruments are being played. This is supposed to be A VERY LOUD GESTURE THAT'S DRAMATIC, but that's what makes it fun and empowering within the African community.
To summarize the wedding was really fun and I was happy to be apart of the wedding, since it motivates me to incorporate that part of my cultural identity in the wedding I want to have.
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