Chaos

Finally down the aisle

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on January 02, 2008 3:15:11 PM

Leisia and Linikoni finally formalised their vows and were married sometime last year 2007 (last week.)

The poor couple originally had their hopes set for 2006 when a few groups went wild and destroyed downtown Nuku'alofa ruining a number of lives.

Mum and dad were all smiles, and so were the couple on hand.

As in most places, Tonga's major festivities surrounding couples (such as huge weddings) are around the Christmas (end-of-year) holiday period. Something to do with being the time when almost everyone at least can get the time-off to be there.

In the 2nd week of December we had what I heard was our largest number of weddings in a single day for Tongatapu, with 26 couples tying the not on a single day.

This all means that the price of pork meat in the country has sky-rocketed, costs way too much, and tangi ee ngaahi fa'ee.

Anyhow, as in most wedding or feasts here in Tonga there seemed to be a whole lot more cars parked at the reception hall than were parked at the church service (ooops, must have been a whole lot of people helping with the preparations, that's it 8-)

Unfortunately, Sisitoutai nailed another on his coffin of rejections from public events.

The little fella is great fun to be with, but has some seriously PR problems with his behaviour, such as not deigning the difference between a large public gathering and being in his home (I'm free.)

Mum has the patience (sometimes) but it seems others are not as amused.

2008.01.02 just realised that the machine must have restarted before the photos were finished uploading. 30 photos didn't make it up, so they're being uploaded now.

Of course there's more to a wedding than the day of the wondrous occasion. For us, we had our clan-bake on Christmas day (or was it just an excuse to get the broader clan together on this, another momentous day.)