Engagement in Ghana #2

So Prince isn't picking up his phone...and there's over 50 people standing outside...it was a madness! I went inside the house and left all of the stress for Jess and my family to sort out. In the end Prince picked up his phone and the family went somewhere to jam till we were ready.

Now, everyone knows I like to do things differently (reference my blog EXTRA!!!) and I wasn't going to make any exceptions with my engagement.

Usually in traditional engagements some of the women put some sort of accessory on their hair:

I wore a tiara:

Usually they wear beads:

I wore something along the lines of:

And in Ghana for engagements the bait thing to do is to wear kente, so I would have basically looked like this:

Now, as you can probably guess it didn't go down like that. A banana never grows on an orange tree so if I am extra, you cannnot possibly imagine how extra my family is...If I had worn kente, I would have been just another girl in the crowd...Everyone was either wearing kente or very expensive lace and I wasn't about to look like a random village girl who turned up to the engagement...and knowing that Prince is also an attention seeker, I knew he was planning to go fully in with his traditional clothes so I wanted to look like a Princess standing next to her Prince.

Many people tried to barge in when I was getting ready, but Jessica was standing at the door making sure no-one entered. The all wanted to see what I was going to wear because I hadn't showed them the material or the design. The curiosity was killing them...TBC