My son and daughter went to a friend's wedding in Kenya. It was a fairly big society wedding and the bride wore a plain white dress with panels of hand woven green and purple fabric, which I think came from Ethiopia and was apparently almost priceless. The day before they had the tradional tribal wedding which was a lot more fun. The bride had to show that she would be able to feed her husband and the (English) bridegroom had to prove that he could hunt game. All the girls were shrouded with blankets at the beginning and he had to recognise her by her feet to be sure he was marrying the right one. Lots of fun and not a satin meringue to be seen.
Washing bio gel or quid in the drum