June Ruto, the daughter of Kenya’s Vice President – William Ruto is getting married, American actress, Kat Dennings is engaged, Real Housewives of Atlanta star, Porsha Williams is engaged to Simon Guobadia, Naomi Osaka gave us bridal inspiration as she received her Sports Woman of the Year award. A Nigerian couple celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary, Nigerian entrepreneurs, Fela and Tara Durotoye celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary and YouTuber, Tolulope and her husband, Gbemiga Adejumo celebrated their 4th wedding anniversary. Here’s all the wedding news from last week in full.
June Ruto is engaged: Kenya’s Vice President (William Ruto)’s daughter is getting married to Alexander Ezenagu. According to The Standard, Alexander is a Nigerian Assistant Professor at the College of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Qatar. The couple had their wedding introduction and engagement party in grand style last week.
The Vice President’s wife and mother of the bride, Rachel Ruto shared photos from the event on Instagram. She shared; ‘Every mother’s joy is to share lifes family values, lessons and milestones with her daughter. My heartfelt congratulations, love and prayers to my daughter June on her new chapter. May God shine His light on your path‘.
American actress, Kat Dennings is engaged. She announced her engagement to Andrew K.W on social media.
Real Housewives of Atlanta star, Porsha Williams is getting married to film producer, Simon Guobadia. The couple announced their engagement last week.
Japanese tennis player, Naomi Osaka served the perfect bridal inspiration last week when she wore the Ciara sequin kimono sleeve wedding dress from ASOS to receive the award for Sports Woman of the Year at the 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards.
Nigerian womenswear brand, Magnetic Elegance released a bridal collection tagged, The Adunni Collection. The brand a shared on Instagram; ‘The Adunni Collection was inspired by the elaborate African wedding ceremony and bridal culture infused by the identity of a strong African woman Adunni Molade. Grandmother of the creative director, who was a politician, architect, and fashion designer herself in the 1940s. She was the true image of the African woman, strong, enterprising, and elegant in appearance.
53 years of love: A Nigerian couple celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary last week and had a photoshoot to celebrate. Photographer @toyephotography shared; ’53yrs anniversary of these lovebirds, such privilege to be able to capture this and know it’s possible and I pray for everyone seeing this, you will find your true love that comes with great peace’.
The Durotoye’s are 20. Nigerian entrepreneurs, Fela and Tara Durotoye celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary last week. The founder of House of Tara shared a photo from their civil wedding at the Federal Marriage Registry Ikoyi, Lagos 20 years ago.
Nigerian YouTuber, Tolulope and her husband, Gbemiga Adejumo celebrated their 4th wedding anniversary last week. Gbemiga shared; ‘We have grown, learned, loved, cried, laughed (a lot) produced a whole human being!, fought🙄 (mostly you fighting me sha🤷🏽♂️) and overall enjoyed the blessings of God over these past 4 years! Excitedly looking forward to the next 86 years with you my Solutions❤️❤️❤️ Happy Wedding Anniversary Love!’