About 100 people were witnesses to a most unusual wedding inZimbabwe. The bride was 61 years old and the groom was an eight-year-old boy. Even more unusual, both families were present at the wedding and the bride‘s husband and her five children were also at the wedding.
The boy’s 46-year-old aunt explained why the wedding took place.
“The boy was named after his late grandfather who never had a white wedding, so the ancestors told the boy to get married and he chose Helen to be his bride.”
Bride
The family took his desire to get married seriously. They paid for the bride in March last year and spent a lot on the wedding because they believed it was what the ancestors wanted.
The bride is married and has five children of her own, but she had to respect what the ancestors wanted. It is a ritual.
The young groom said: “I told my mother that I wanted to get married because I really did want to. I chose her because I love her and I‘m happy that I married her, but I will go to school and study hard. When I‘m older I will marry a woman my own age.”
Kiss
The bride‘s longtime husband said he never had a problem with her marrying the boy because he too, knew that it was what the ancestors wanted.
“My children and I are happy. We don‘t have any problems with it,” he said.
However, some community members said they were shocked.
One woman said: “How can a family go this far for the ancestors? It shows that people do take messages from the ancestors seriously.”
This was a not a legal marriage. It was only done for ritual purposes. The happy couple sealed their marriage with a kiss.
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