My weekend experience // With my beloved mother at my uncle's wedding in St. Patrick Catholic Church Akwanga, Nasarawa State.

I was about to go for a program in the morning when my mother called me and reminded me of my uncle's wedding of which I have forgotten about it already. She said I should prepare for the wedding, we will go together. I wasn't prepared for the wedding at first because I have already had somewhere to go this weekend on my mind. But because my mother insisted we should go together, I had no choice than to accept to go with her.

We went for the wedding and met our longtime relations and other family's friends as well.

The wedding was successful and the couple were ordained as Mr and Mrs Francis Felix by a Rev.Father. To God be the glory for the success of the wedding. I left my mother and hangout with few family friends I met at the wedding. We talked, snap pictures together and had some fun together.

While the wedding reception was going on, I was outside with my friends talking when I received a phone called from my mother asking me to walk down to the reception ground and meet her in the high tables of mothers of the day. I walked majestically amidst multitude of people sitting and eating and enjoying the food that has been served for them.

I met my mother at the high table and sat down with her. I saw a lot of drinks, fruits juice, rice and even red wine. I ate the food and drank the fruit juice but put the red wine in my mother's bag because I don't drink alcohol neither my mother does. My mother would give me little amount of money to follow her each time she want to spray the bribe and the groom and I will go with her spray them money and return back to the sit. Later on, while the reception is still going on, the ushers brought swallow with chicken meat inside to us, and a bottle water.

I eat the food and finished the chicken meat. My mother ate her swallow because that's her favorite food but couldn't finish her meat. She passed the meat to me and I told her I won't eat it here, but I will package it and take it home. She called one of the usher and asked for a takeaway rubber and she package the meat inside the takeaway rubber and put it in her bag.

Almost the end of the reception, the ushers were sharing pieces of the cutting cakes and I pick three pieces of it and ate. It was then I knew people sitting in the high tables in most of the weddings and occasions used to eat good food and drink good drinks than people setting in the down flour. If I have sat in the down flour I wouldn't have had all this food and drinks and meat and cakes.

Sitting in a high tables in a wedding attracts respect from the ushers. The ushers will come and ask if you need water, juice or anything at all. But if you sit in a down flour or as a flow members you will be clashing food with other people and at times food or drinks will not even reach your side. I have experienced it before and so I can tell the difference. I once sat in a downflour in some occasions that I have not been giving food to eat till the wedding reception was over.

So,I concluded that high table people are special people the bribe and the groom have honored and give them special invitations that's why they have been treated during the wedding reception nicely and carefully. After the last benediction from the chairman of the wedding ceremony and a closing speech and thanksgiving was given by the bribe and the groom then my mother asked me to carry her bag and everything we have package let's go home.

I packed everything including her bag that contains the meat, malt and red wine she has packaged and we went and greeted my Uncle and his newly wedded wife and head home straight away.

I really had fun and have enjoyed myself today at this wedding more than any weddings I have ever been. I would have missed if I didn't followed my mother to the wedding or sit down with her at the high tables sits.

Congratulations once again to the newly wedded couple in town, Mr and Mrs Francis Felix. May God's grace and favour surrend your family forever and ever.

This weekend was really a wonderful and happy weekend for me and my mother. What a happy ending weekend I had today.