Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, the founder and General Overseer of Action Chapel International, has said that a wedding is a liability to those of you who are now building wealth.
Speaking to his congregation in a viral video, Archbishop Duncan William urged young people to avoid the financial mistake of accruing debt in pursuit of a lavish wedding.
Duncan William stated, “If you have money to have a wedding, fine, but a lot of you don’t have money for weddings, and even if you do, using money for weddings is a liability and not an asset. A wedding is a liability to those of you who are now building wealth. It is an asset to those who have made their money”.
Some of you don’t even have a bedroom you are living, you don’t even have money to rent a house, and you want a wedding”.
Duncan William urged his church members to discourage people from having weddings, unless the man can prove he has GH¢100,000 in his bank account.
He added, “You don’t want to begin your marriage with debts. You go to the honeymoon, and the phones begin to ring, and it’s the lady who brought the chairs for the wedding asking for her money, then another phone rings, the woman who provided the drinks.
Discourage people who want to have a wedding until the man can prove to us that he has at least he has GH¢100,000 in his bank account; he should not have a wedding”.
He further added, “I want us to stop this thing of white wedding and you single women stop this thing where you want the man to wed you, marriage is not a wedding, and those of you who give people money for marry who do not have, if they do not have, they should not marry because mariage is not love, love does not buy provision, love does not pay the bills.
I am not saying we should not help people who want to get married, but we need to have about five or ten marriages on the altar, everybody takes their ring, no best man, no maid of honour, no bridesmaid, nothing, we just pronounce the blessing of God, go home and make love, make babies, live your life.
Why do you have to do a reception? Why do you have to bring people to come and eat and drink your food for free after they insult you?”
Earlier, Duncan-William had previously urged individuals must prioritise their lives and avoid spending all their earnings on weddings and end up in debt.
Preaching to his congregation, Duncan-Williams stated, “Most of the foolish things we do are to use our money for other things. For weddings, we go and buy all these white dresses and suits. We spend all the money on weddings.”
“So people have come, you’ve dressed nicely, but you are in debt, and they are calling for their money. Your phone is ringing, and somebody says, the money you collected, when can I have my money? And you can’t tell the lady that you borrowed some money to do shows”, he stressed.
He further recounted his own personal experience, adding that he got married at the 21 or 22.
Duncan-William revealed he got married because he felt pressured to do so.
He added, “You could tell that this guy is confused. I was like a sheep carried to the slaughter. I had no idea of what I was doing. I had no idea of what marriage was – I was just told I should marry, so me too, I married”.
“So let me say to some of you, when you get it all right, don’t do a wedding”, he counselled.
“If I were you, I would take that money that they are going to use for the wedding to do other things for the marriage itself. Just come to the office, sign the document, we bless you, you kiss one another, go home”, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams added.
Watch the video below:
“We should discourage people from having weddings, unless the man can prove he has GH¢100,000 in his bank account”
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— Archbishop Duncan William has urged young persons to avoid the financial mistake of accruing debt in pursuit of a lavish wedding.
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