The power of love and the 5 waiting brides of Matola – Mozambique

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The power of love and the 5 waiting brides of Matola – Mozambique

5:23 CAT | 26 Oct 2016

O País / The brides waiting

Saturday saw people sitting on the ground while others stood, their faces anxious and drawn from waiting long hours to get married in the Civil Registry and Legal Entities office in Matola, Maputo province.

Children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, including five brides and grooms, spent more than two hours waiting because the registrar was late. More than five marriages were delayed, the intense heat driving people to seek shade under the trees in the Registry Office grounds.

The angry families of the brides and grooms said the service was slow even when it got under way, with marriages taking more than an hour to conclude. There being only one marriage room and that needed to host a variety of ceremonies may have contributed to the delays.

For most families, the concern is the knock-on effect of delays, some even declaring they would have to reschedule the usual caravan wedding ride through the streets to the following day to make up for lost time.

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O País newspaper has heard of similar situations across the country. In the district of Ka-Tembe in Maputo province, wedding ceremonies were delayed for just over a month for the same reasons.

Source: O País