"First, I thought it was a funeral": Woman's black-themed wedding leaves SA astonished

"First, I thought it was a funeral": Woman's black-themed wedding leaves SA astonished

  • A fashion designer's social media page shared videos online of their client's unique wedding colour theme
  • The bride, her groom and everyone who attended were all dressed in the same colour in the post that got people talking on TikTok
  • Looking at everyone's dress code, many social media users shared that they only realised later that it was a wedding
TikTok user mistakenly thought a woman was celebrating a divorce party after seeing how she dressed for her wedding
A woman's black-themed wedding had Mzansi people talking on social media. Image: @lafoicouture
Source: TikTok

A local lady shocked many social media users after her wedding videos were shared on TikTok. In the videos, the bride, groom, and everyone invited were dressed in a colour uncommonly used in African wedding celebrations.

The lady's video was shared on the video streaming platform by her designer, whose user handle is @lafoicouture, and it has attracted massive popularity online.

Bride in black

The clip shared by @lafoicouture starts by showing a picture of the bride in her black beaded wedding gown. It moves to show her dancing to women ululating as she steps out of her home to her car in her black dress and black veil.

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Watch the video below:

Footage gets Mzansi talking

The clip attracted 692K views, 15K likes, and almost 3K comments from social media users who shared reviews. Many felt that the bride's black dress and veil resembled darkness, while others were proud that the bride got her colour theme wedding even though it was black.

User @missB asked:

"Who idea was this vele😳? Inviting darkness in your special day and your new life 🥺"

User @CCbontle shared:

"This woman has a plan after this wedding...She knows why she's wearing black 😅😅"

User @imani added:

"Don't get me wrong please, at first I thought it was a funeral."

User @Thandiwe shared:

"Beautiful. 🥰 but I thought it was divorce party because of the colour😭 but it is beautiful really."

User @sdalwa commented:

"Bad idea, makoti uyazihlolozela ukuthi ubeyi (you're inviting darkness to turn you into a widow)."

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User @Nonee said:

"Lapho, black is my favourite colour. When I told my family I wanted to wear it for my wedding, bakhuza ibhadi😂 Kudos to you, sisi. We need to unlearn a lot of things."

Woman marries UK man she met on a dating site

In another Briefly News article, a lady showed off her traditional and white weddings to a man from the UK whom she met on a dating app on her TikTok account.

The post attracted many responses from social media users who congratulated the hun while others commented about their age gap.

Source: Briefly News

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Bongiwe Mati (Editor) Bongiwe Mati is an experienced reporter currently working under the Human Interest desk at Briefly News since (Aug 2024). Prior to joining the Briefly team, she worked for a campus newspaper at the University of the Western Cape (2005) before joining the Marketing and Sales department at Leadership Magazine, Cape Media (2007-2009). She later joined BONA magazine as an Editorial Assistant (2023-2024), writing for digital and print magazines under current news, entertainment, and human interest categories. She can be reached at bongiwe.mati@briefly.co.za

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