On February 16th, Matt had the privilege of being the Best Man in his friend Dennis’ wedding. Dennis has lived in Swaziland for about 3 years and met the woman of his dreams, Zwakele!!! It has been interesting to see Dennis and Zwakele get engaged and married ‘Swazi Style.’ Like all Swazi’s, Dennis had to pay for Zwakele with cows, and although their wedding was ‘western style’ with the brides dress and bridesmaids, they danced up the aisle… after all Swazi are great at dancing, on the other hand Matt had a little trouble finding his rythmn…
I personally think he stole the show!!!!
Let’s not forget the rest of the wedding…
On Saturday Dennis and Zwakele had a small wedding with about 150 invited guests. However, this is unusual in Swaziland. Usually, anyone and everyone show up to a wedding in the community, invited or not. So, on Sunday, they had the exact same ceremony but in the local community, where four times the amount of people were squished into a church a sixth of the size…it was hot, but all had a great time!!!! I had the privilege of taking the pictures of the wedding, so here are a few…
Dennis met Zwakele half way down the aisle, and they walked the rest of the way together.
The ceremony on Saturday
The flower girl was so cute!!!
The groomsmen…not really sure why one of them is holding flowers!!!
The ladies!!!
And now, the bride and groom…
Matt looked so smart in his vest and tie…In my opinion, definitely the best looking one there!!!
Thanks for the great pics!
Naomi!
I love it!! I miss you girl! I’ll be in Tanzani/Malawi for seven weeks come May.
Love You!
Kelley
Matt, dude I saw you dancing up a storm on the video Dave Gross shot. Let me just say that crap was funny and you definitely have more guts than I do cause I couldn’t have pulled that off nearly as well.
Beautiful pictures with the new camera Naomi. 😉
What a beautiful wedding.
p.s. Caleb looks like a monster next to the others. surprise surprise. but you and matt are LOVELY!
hey thanks for sharing those pictures. What a beautiful wedding party! Congrats to them.
matt putting on the moves didnt know you could dance what a beautiful wedding naomi you are great photographer
Ahhhh! these look great! I would have paid money to see Matt dance up the aisle. oh yeahhhhh!
haha miss you guys! love you!