If you found true love in this country, you would also make a big show of it.
People find love, get engaged, and vow before God, family, and friends to stick with their partners until the end of their lives. It's a big vow, so it makes sense that most people make a big show of it, and these Nigerian celebrities are no different.
From Annie Idibia and Tuface's destination wedding to Veekee James and Femi Atere's 4-day celebrations, here are our favorite celebrations of love (in no particular order).
Banky W and Adesua Etomi
Shortly after their debut as an on-screen couple in Kemi Adetiba's 2016 The Wedding Party, Banky, and Susu popped out with an engagement and introduction.
The couple finally tied the knot in November 2017 and had everyone following their wedding hashtag, #Baad17, just to get a glimpse of the bride and groom in their gorgeous outfits on their special day.
Made Kuti and Inedoye Onyenso
We were all minding our business on a hot Wednesday morning when Made Kuti, and Inedoye's gorgeous faces filled our timelines. As though their combined beauty and love weren't enough, the groom's mum - Funke Kuti - and her friends decided to show up and show out and almost had half the internet crashing the event.
Adekunle Gold and Simi
After years of watching us ship the love of his life with Falz because of the small chemistry they shared, Adekunle Gold and Simi tied the knot in January 2022. It was an intimate ceremony, and they only shared a glimpse of their special day with us, but they looked incredibly in love and happy.
Veekee James and Femi Atere
Veekee James and Femi Atere found love and decided to paint Lagos and its inhabitants red. People keep shouting that it was a 4-day affair, but did they stop to consider that maybe THE couple didn't want to squeeze all their ceremonies into one day? Perhaps they wanted the whole world to see their ten outfits over those four days and know that their love is not just an anyhow kind of love.
Annie Idibia and Tuface
Before everyone was trending wedding hashtags and attending celebrity weddings via Instagram Live and Snapchat, we were attending Annie Idibia and Tuface's wedding via television.
In 2013, the long-term couple said their vows before friends, family, and their online in-laws at the Jumeirah beach resort in Dubai.
Tee-Billz and Tiwa Savage
This couple may have called it quits, but their wedding would forever live rent-free in our heads.
A custom iPhone with the couple's initials, Toolz DJing, a car gift from Don Jazzy, and doves being released after the vows. Tee-Billz and Tiwa Savage had the most exclusive fairytale destination wedding in 2014. If they could tell us who their planner was, that'd be great.
Davido and Chioma
We were promised an #Assurance2020 but got a #Chivido2024, and it couldn't have been better. Davido and Chioma Rowland were traditionally married in a big AF wedding on June 25, 2024. There were so many people willing to celebrate the couple's love that we're low-key surprised the venue could take them all.
Kemi Adetiba and Oscar Ackerman
The king of boys popped out with her boo, Ghananian-Nigerian music executive, creative entrepreneur, and media solutionist Oscar Heman-Ackah, and got traditionally married in 2022. Half of Nollywood was in attendance at the ceremony, and it was a perfect blend of the couple's multi-cultural backgrounds.
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