ASO EBI PALAVA!

So, it's December again and I'm sure a lot of us have a million weddings to attend, and in Nigeria you may have to buy aso ebi, right? Aso ebi is  an outfit  guests wear to an event perhaps to give them a uniformed look? It's been our tradition for ages.  Celebrants select an outfit their guests and family should wear(it's not compulsory but you might look odd if you don't wear it cause everyone would be wearing it or you might not be allowed into the party) Yes! Some celebrants have crazy rules!  Yesterday, a friend of mine was sulking about the whole 'aso ebi' thing. My dear friend is 'miss popular'  so she has over 12 weddings and somehow she has  had to buy not just the aso ebis but she's on 5 different  the  trains, lol! Meaning she had to pay for the bridesmaid dresses also(I no envy her o!)  She goes 'Bisodun I'm broke, all my money has gone on aso ebi' next thing I knew she started tearing up. I couldn't believe she was crying. She said she had spent over a hundred thousand on aso ebis this December alone and is still in debt.

Okay here's my thing, firstly some aso ebis are ridiculously expensive and you see that's the problem a lot of guests have with purchasing aso ebis? Dear Brides, you know what your friends can afford, so why use an aso ebi worth tens of thousands? There are certainly cheaper prettier aso ebis out there, no one is going to know whether your aso ebi was thirty grand or three grand! It's called taste! Secondly, 'Eyin iyawos' don't think your friends are stupid o, we know the market price of that 'ankara' o! Why over inflate the price? God is watching you in 10D o!!!! Even if you want to put 'fisi' do it reasonably! Pity us now, we are still going to pay Baba Ranti to sew one mad style for us now! Pity us. Thirdly,  sisters out there, it is not a must, I repeat, it is not a must to buy aso ebi o!!!!!!! Please don't go owing money or begging for money because you want to buy aso ebi. A lot of us ladies are guilty of this. 'Gbese' here and there! Let's be bold enough to say ' I love you my dear friend, but i can't afford your aso ebi'.  I'm not Saying people should be malicious and unnecessary reluctant to buy aso ebis o, if you have money please support your friend! And if you don't have, please don't buy,  dont go incurring debts, cause your friend will be the one to suffer for it if you don't pay for her aso ebi you rocked so well that you graced the front cover of those style magazines.

A cousin who got married six years ago said some of her friends haven't still paid for the aso ebi they bought, she has two kids now, and the aso ebi was just two thousand?????? 

Whats your aso ebi palava? Please drop a line!

To be continued............