{"id":201915,"date":"2025-07-08T02:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pricey-tents-pressure-and-tradition-the-high-cost-of-namibian-weddings\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:16:06","slug":"namibia-pricey-tents-pressure-and-tradition-the-high-cost-of-namibian-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pricey-tents-pressure-and-tradition-the-high-cost-of-namibian-weddings\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Pricey Tents, Pressure and Tradition &#8211; The High Cost of Namibian Weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Money is irrelevant &#8211; <em>Nakuumba<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mounting family pressure and societal expectation<\/li>\n<li>Some couples marry at court against family wishes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><strong>A Double &#8211; storey tent imported from South Africa with a luxurious carpet, complete with air conditioning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">This is how some Namibian couples pull out all the stops to make their weddings the talk of the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Businessman Titus Nakuumba says he cannot remember how much he spent on his wedding in 2013, but it included ferrying his family from northern Namibia to Walvis&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507070807.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money is irrelevant &#8211; Nakuumba Mounting family pressure and societal expectation Some couples marry at court against family wishes A Double &#8211; storey tent imported from South Africa with a luxurious carpet, complete with air conditioning. This is how some Namibian couples pull out all the stops to make their weddings the talk of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6629,6184,4706,724,6953,257,15578,22329,254,19645,28197,33321],"class_list":["post-201915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-high","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-pressure","tag-pricey","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tents","tag-tradition","tag-weddings"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}