• TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    There was this one ladies wedding where the soon to be mother in law wanted to honor her blackness by having jumping the broom at the wedding - fiancé/groom and his mom were very very white. Except the bride was, like, Nigerian and didn't have any connection to it as a tradition. And the mom just wouldn't get it. I think she ended up boycotting the wedding with her family or something at the end??? And kept insisting that they have jumping the broom at the ceremony

    • booty [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Except the bride was, like, Nigerian and didn't have any connection to it as a tradition.

      until this part i was kinda just thinking "ok whatever just jump over the broom is it really worth fighting over" but nah i think this shifts it to full on "feel free not to attend the wedding then, lady"

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      If this the same story I read, the MIL made her own custom broom after the bride had explained how she has no cultural connection that tradition