Inside Jackson and Carol's Beach Wedding

Ugandans are known for very expensive and sometimes extravagant weddings, research shows that most of the people who have expensive weddings end up with debts, some go to the extreme of getting loans to have these expensive weddings.

Is it worth it coming from honeymoon only to start addressing PROBLEMS and paying debts, solving wedding challenges instead of building your new marriage. We decided to have a chat with Jackson and Carol, the Newly weds, they took their vows on the 14th Feb 2020, lucky enough lockdown got them fully settled.

As a witness I must say this was one of the simplest but most elegant wedding, held at the beach in Entebbe, out of curiosity of getting some inspiration for you the reader, I had a number of questions for Jackson and Carol.

How did you manage to pull this off? According to Jackson, everything was about God, and then friends, every friend who attended their wedding, contributed 100K UGX and some paid over and above he says. They also raised money for their wedding by organising simple events, the first one was a barbeque party at 12K and then a movie night at 12k.

“We did not have money but we knew it was time for us to get married, it was all about Faith in God, we prayed and fasted, we set aside time to pray every month, our dating was about praying”

Jackson and Carol managed to minimise their costs. “On our wedding day says, Carol never changed the dress, I never changed shoes, we did not have to spend money on all those items, we built very good relationships with people, because of this we got a public address system at 300K, the person who gave us the system also transported it from Kampala to Entebbe, people gave up their valentine gigs to come to our wedding, the band guys who performed did it out of love and good relationship”.

Jackson and Carol never used Bridal cars, they never had maids, only Best man and matron/maid of honour, and because their wedding was out of God’s plan they chose to glorify God throughout, for example only gospel music was played during their wedding.

Well saving the best for last, I wanted to know how the lovely people meet. “ we met at Musale church in Mbale,, we got acquainted, we were all so much involved in ministry at church, I asked Carol on a date one day, I confessed my love to Carol but she being a prayerful woman, she said “let me think and pray about it”, after a month we went on another date, we talked and finally she said YES”.

Jackson: “My advise to people who want and plan to get married, first, know what you want, know how many people you want at your wedding, avoid external influence, put God first through everything, know why you want to get married, and also know how you want to get married.