# AndWeRemained (G-193)

Just like the Bible says in Matthew 19:five

"As a consequence A person SHALL Depart HIS Mum and dad AND BE JOINED TO HIS Spouse, AND Both SHALL Turn out to be ONE FLESH "

There's a plethora of feelings you're feeling for your marriage ceremony day yet there are about a issues Nana Yaa won't ever overlook as they nevertheless stand out very definitely in her testimonies.

October, 2009. Half of Assini, Western.
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Nana Yaa stepped out from her domicile to visit the Task Area to prepare. She had spent 0.5 her lifestyles in that condo or even however it turned into rented, it become "homestead".

She recollects stepping out of the principle gates with a few chums, taking two steps and preventing quickly, simply to flip returned and think about her dwelling house. And it struck her, she used to be leaving her homestead without end.
She was once going to head immediately to the Church from the Venture Area, which intended, she had spent her remaining second in her dwelling house as her dwelling house... good, no less than technically.

She become not ever coming again there! From that second on until eventually the instant I will point out subsequent, she was once depressed. Her unhappiness sprawled on her face, fought the makeup challenging and sat there effective for a number of hours. All makes an attempt by means of visitors and cousins to make her smile to assist her bridal glow, went in useless.
A chum of her brother, who changed into depended on to be her experience and escort until the venue even performed Cece Winans songs (her favored then) to enhance her spirits. However not to so much avail.

Unless.....

She noticed her 'Samuel' status at the podium, expecting her as she entered the Church. For Nana Yaa, she wished her father to stroll her down, no longer as a result of he become giving her away, yet due to the fact that she became asserting 'Good-bye' to a gigantic component of her lifestyles, and 'Hey' to a different.
For her father, it turned into his possibility to ceremonially say to her approximately-to-be husband,

"I used to be the largest guy in her existence, now you might be."

Nana's father walked her down the aisle, shook her Samuel's hand, after which positioned her hand in his. He had tears in his eyes and a grin on his face. It changed into one of the touching matters she'd ever skilled.
All the pieces she felt inside the earlier second turned into concerning the prior. All the things she felt in that second become in regards to the long run. She realised all her fears could simply be that-fears and he or she can be at an advantage hunting forward-actually and figuratively.

Nana felt a unexpected weight lifted off her chest, she felt a traditional smile substitute the sombre expression on her face, she changed into unexpectedly looking ahead to the night.
Nana Yaa's father may slightly choke out the phrases,

"Her mom and that i do,"

... while the Reverend Minister requested who introduced her to be married to her husband. It basically remained one of several sweetest tales she had had of her marriage ceremony day -

Till...

A tender girl walked in in the course of the trade of vows. She walked directly to in which the bride and groom, Nana Yaa's dad and mom - and the Reverend Minister stood. She courteously asked communicating with Samuel on my own.

All the auditorium went silent. The Reverend Minister mentioned talking to her first, yet she refused to hear.
Reputedly, she turned into 3 (three) weeks pregnant for Samuel. Sammy used to be surprised after listening to the inside track, yet could not safeguard himself.

Nana Yaa, 33, unexpectedly additionally felt like excusing herself from the carrier - to believe matters by way of. She demanded to not be adopted with the aid of anybody nor stopped from stepping out of the Church.
She took an extended stroll by means of the roadside, in her marriage ceremony robe and footwear, nevertheless conserving directly to her bouquet of plant life, crying and speaking to herself.

She walked for over an hour until now attending to the most highway. She nonetheless had her veil protecting her face. She walked via the roadside for an additional 600 meters - earlier than preventing through a black Mercedes Benz. The driving force of the automobile turned into shopping a bottled water, so she begged of him to shop for her one. The younger guy graciously did.

She thanked him after which, endured together with her stroll. The fellow drove by way of her edge, asking her if all the things became very well. She refused to intellect him. He stored thinking, nonetheless slowly riding through her area.

"Please go away me on my own" she cried.

"No! I can't depart you all on your own. Why are you on foot in a marriage costume?" he requested, " Are you o.k.? Permit me take you in your dwelling."

"I do not wish to cross dwelling house."

"Good enough. So, in which are you going without delay?

"I do not comprehend." she cried

"Okay. My call is Fiifi. What is yours?"

"Depart me by myself, please." she insisted.

"I attended a overdue good friend's funeral. I'm on my as far back as Accra. Are you confident you don't need me to take you to at any place you're going?"

"You might be touring to Accra?" she requested

"Definite!"

"Take me to where."

"The place?" he requested

"Accra. In which you are going."

"You reside there?" nonetheless riding slowly by means of her part.

"No!"

"So, what are you going to do there?"

"I do not comprehend." she spoke back.

"You'veyou've got you have got spouse and children there?" he requested

"No!"

"So, whom may you be going to?"

"Take me in your dwelling. My call is Nana Yaa."

That became how Nana Yaa met her now husband, Fiifi. He took her in, housed her, clothed her, fed her; came upon her a significant employment ... Befriended her for 5 months, comforted her, dated her for 6 (6) months - after which married her in December, 2011.

At first, she didn't wish to have anything else to do with any person from her beyond, even her father and mother, however her husband desired to honor both of her fogeys for the duration of their marriage ceremony. So asking his sweetheart's father to stroll Nana Yaa down the aisle, returned, become his method of honoring him and in a feeling acknowledging the indisputable fact that he'd walked beside her, guiding her in such a lot of approaches and helping her, all of her existence. wedding dresses for pregnant brides

Her mom and Fiifi's father and mother had been all commemorated in several approaches throughout their rite, yet on foot down the aisle to come back - became all approximately Nana Yaa and her Dad.

Those two emotionally contrary moments will continuously outline the outlines of the testimonies of her wedding ceremony days.
Or not it's that, her husband is now the person she will depend on the foremost, and that second turned into her father's opportunity to allow them to either understand how proud he was once, either one of her Fiifi, and in their marriage.