The family that was involved in a wedding in which Kenyans who attended the Pre-wedding Party failed to get invitation to the main wedding has clarified the matter.
Speaking to KSB, a family member said that it was unfortunate that some Kenyans felt left out of the wedding because this was not the intention. According to the family member, information had been relayed at the Pre-wedding Party to the effect that the evening’s event was the “Kenyan part” of the wedding but that not everybody seem to have received this information.
The family member said that by the time the Pre-wedding was organized, the date and other details of the main wedding had already been fixed. According to the family source, the position of the family is that the Pre-wedding was the end as far as Kenyans and the African community were concerned because the general understanding was that the main wedding would be a private affair.
The family source said that there appears to have been a big “break-down in communication” that could have led to the misunderstanding that everybody who was at the Pre-wedding would be invited to the main wedding.
The family appeared very concerned about the reaction of a cross section of Kenyans who expected to be invited to the wedding although the family blamed the hitch on “communication breakdown”.
Angry Kenyans who were at the Pre-wedding but who failed to get invitations called KSB to express their anger. They found it strange that the family sent clear information through public channels about the Pre-wedding but failed to do so about the main wedding, leading to feelings that they had been left out of the main wedding.
The issue has provoked heated debate among Kenyans in Stockholm about pre-weddings, fund raisings and economic exploitation of the Kenyan community in Stockholm.
Okoth Osewe
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