Movie Review: Our Family Wedding: Our Marriage, Their Wedding

A good way to start any weekend is to watch a good movie on Friday night. Mine was Our Family Wedding.

This is a review from IMDB:

“Our marriage, their wedding.” It’s lesson number one for any newly engaged couple, and Lucia and Marcus are no exception. In Our Family Wedding, they learn the hard way that the path to saying “I do” can be rife with familial strife. When they return from college and too suddenly announce their marriage plans, they soon discover that their fathers – two highly competitive over-the-top egos – can wreak a major amount of havoc on their special day. With insults flying and tempers running high, it’s anyone’s guess if the alpha dads will survive to make it down the aisle in one piece. Lucia’s mother is busy planning the wedding of “her” dreams and the only levelheaded one in the bunch is Angela, the groom’s father’s best friend and lawyer, who manages to keep her cool when the madness reaches a crescendo. With only weeks to plan their wedding, Lucia and Marcus soon discover the true meaning of love and find there is truth to the saying – that when you marry someone…source: click here

I would say the movie has a good landing in the first couple of scenes, it took like 5minutes for me to know what exactly was going on. The story is good, I like the twists and turns, especially that the father of the to-be bride and groom try to out-shine each other. Every one soon finds in himself and herself a place of confidence in to-be relatives from the other side and things eventually work out.

I am also very impressed to see a Nigerian-sounding name Rick Famuyiwa, as director.

This 6-ft and 4ínches movie director has other credits that include The wood, Brown Suga, Talk to me, and Blacktop Lingo. I have to contact my CD guy in computer village next week. Are there any Nigerian movie directors outside Nigeria? pls leave a comment if you have info. And just in case you haven’t watched Our Family Wedding, pls go to the nearest CD shop in your area.

Back to the movie: I kind of identify with the Our marriage, their wedding idea after attending a couple of weddings (traditional, Church and court) and seeing so much confusion that a marriage between two people generates. Usually, everyone from either side of the family, except the couple seems to know the most-right thing to do, the best decision to take for any situation. With ego’s flying up and down, a lot of potential wahala’s happen at weddings around town..

I remember a wedding I attended in Lagos where a serious fight broke out between a man and one of the caterers, also a guy. The street fighter was so angry with this guy that those who came to his(catering guy’s) defense were not spared in slaps, kicks, etc. While some went black-eyed, some others got their clothes torn, and those who unfortunately had taken their seats near to where the war eventually broke out got their tables of food turned over, drinks spilled and clothes stained with egunsi soup, etc. I felt so sorry for an elderly man who came in white lace agbada. It all happened so quickly, and after everyone cooled down, the real cause of alarm could not be pin-pointed. All that the street-fighter had to say was that even though he wore an Aso Ebi, he was not given preference in food service. It was then I realized that Aso Ebi was a serious issue.

Its time for you to talk:

• what is the most embarrassing thing you’ve witnessed at a wedding.

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