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    {"id":6618,"date":"2014-11-17T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2014-11-17T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T15:45:23","slug":"fck-rolls-royce-solange-rolls-cycle-define-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/fck-rolls-royce-solange-rolls-cycle-define-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"F@ck the Rolls Royce, Solange Rolls Cycle: Define Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Mama use to tell me, &#8220;Spend your riches on the true essence of love on your wedding day, than the riches of materialism on your wedding day &#8220;, I never quite understood what she she meant&#8211; Actually, this is what I thought of her quote,\u00a0 &#8220;Is this another parable that needs a Da vinci code?&#8221;\u00a0 Forgive me Father God, if I am blaspheming.\u00a0 Solange could have had a flamboyant wedding with thousands of guest, she could have had a coming to America &#8216;horse and carriage&#8217; type of wedding, celebrity list running down her tail&#8211; Better yet, she could have easily rolled up in a classic Rolls Royce Fantom, but rather rolled up in a &#8216;Rose white bicycle&#8217;. Nothing to prove, just her union with Mr Alan Ferguson. The true essence of marriage captured in a simple yet beautiful wedding. <em>It is all about us , not you , not them , Us<\/em>. I finally get what Mama had been saying all these years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the diamonds and pearls that defines the richness of your wedding, neither the amount of money spent on a weddings entertainment defines the longevity of your marriage&#8211;but the richness of your wedding is the important moment in your lifetime when you look in your partners eyes and say &#8220;I do&#8221;&#8211;when tears of joy start flowing down and hands begin clapping, happiness&#8211; surrounded with positive energy from love ones,\u00a0 sharing a marvelous moment with you. A moment so rich no money can buy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6620\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6620\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/solange-wedding-4-656x700.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy of elle.com\" width=\"700\" height=\"656\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of elle.com<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6621\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6621\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6621\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/solange-3-768.jpg\" alt=\"Solange Knowles + Alan Ferguson  INF (Courtesy of people.com )\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solange Knowles + Alan Ferguson<br \/>INF (Courtesy of people.com )<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6619\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6619\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/solange-knowles-wedding-dress.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Rog Walker \" width=\"476\" height=\"714\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Rog Walker<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Wedding these days have become more of a show&#8211; an entertainment to please audience than the couple.<\/h3>\n<p>We spend more time on how to make the audience happy so that they could walk away talking about an epic wedding.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7lSifIyMD8M\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7lSifIyMD8M<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"WEDDING DaNcE Trailer | Sri Lanka | RaMoD with COOL STEPS\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rB4Iko4q-oQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, entertainment is good and should be part of it, but not forgetting that the celebration of bride and groom&#8217;s love is the most important.<\/p>\n<h3>I love thESE Ones<\/h3>\n<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPy7UgE6v0I\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPy7UgE6v0I<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"Mary j.Blige The One\/wedding performance \/ THEO AND KIMBERLY MAGEE\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4X8ghwS8dM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>F@ck the Rolls Royce, Solange Rolls Cycle: Define Wedding<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Inspired by Bob Marley\u2019s philosophy \u201cNone but ourselves can free our mind\u201d, Orijin is a unique \u201cCulture Brand\u201d connecting all African descendants together through it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ORIJINSTORE.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fashion brand<\/a> and thought provoking magazine to influence our lifestyles world wide\u2026.Don\u2019t just WEAR Culture, SHARE Culture.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mama use to tell me, &#8220;Spend your riches on the true essence of love on your wedding day, than the riches of materialism on<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/fck-rolls-royce-solange-rolls-cycle-define-wedding\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culturally-misunderstood"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/solange-wedding-4-656x700.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}