African music and a groom running late marked a special wedding shower on Saturday afternoon.
Although from many different African countries themselves, friends of Dunedin-based Zambian couple Linn Mukumbo and Moses Mpandamabula organised a traditional Zambian bridal shower for them at Burns Hall.
About 60 women, plus the groom, attended the first part of the shower and were joined by about 40 men for the evening meal and social function.
Loud dance music greeted the bride-to-be, a Dunedin preschool teacher, who was escorted into the hall, with her head covered, by close family friends Violet Kudtsoza and Susan Mvula. The trio were met by dancing and cheering well-wishers including the bride's sisters, Omega and Chrissy Mukumbo.
The cheers went up a notch following the announcement that "the man has arrived" and the groom-to-be, a University of Otago business administration student, came to unveil his future wife and exchange gifts.
The couple will return to Zambia this year to be married on September 3. They will return to Dunedin to live.
