Brianne and Alhassan's wedding reception

The following pictures are from Brianne's wedding reception. i will blog about this later, but I thought it was about time I put some photo's up.
the night before the reception Brianne had a special foot painting ceremony, part of the muslim tradition.


they stick plaster strips on her feet and left hand in a pattern and then cover it all in henna

the special criss cross pattern

and a mango leaf

the next day was the wedding reception here's a picture of some of the guest, there was probably about 600 people in total who came! The reception was held in the KanSec assembly hall. (cos it was probably going to rain - and it did!)

brianne and alhassan making their entrance

They organised some traditional dancers, who were amazing. The drummers were drumming so hard and the beat so fast you could barely see their hands move.

then everyone got up and started dancing with them - I got as well, but it shows that whiteman can't dance. Ghanaians have this natural rythym.

finally one of me in my Ghanaian dress - I am standing with Ilona a Dutch VSO

To show how the henna pattern came out.

the Folies!! VSO and the Danes and Alhassan