Pictures: A Xhosa Wedding in South Africa
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“We really wanted the day to be an authentic African celebration, strongly reflecting our respective heritages,” says bride Sandiswa Sotashe of her wedding to Kwabena Shange. She, a South African woman from the Xhosa tribe, and he, Jamaican, it was important for the couple to blend their cultures into a meaningful, one-of-a-kind nuptials. Although she admits, “It ended up being heavy on the side of Xhosa symbolism, to be honest, but Kwabena loved and appreciated it.”
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