I Refuse to be Part of Your Wedding Committee!

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Dear Friend,


I refuse to be part of your wedding committee!

I got your invitation card to the committee. I see you quoted an amount that I am expected to contribute.I must say that I feel honoured that you remember me. It has been years since the last time we spoke. I remember we used to be in the same school, and we recently befriended each other on Facebook.

However, friend, I must say that this came as a surprise to me. You see, I am unable to afford a wife myself. I have been planning to get a lady and head to the A.G chambers. I hear it will cost me very little money.

I see that your wife is trying to keep up with the Kardashians. It is a dream wedding that she wants. If you are able to afford that, my friend, it will be a very good thing to do. But, kindly do not tie me to financial obligations when mine are choking me. The current economic times have put a rope around everyone’s neck. I cannot afford Kshs 10,000/- (180,000/- Tsh) as contribution towards your wedding.

I am willing, more than willing to be a service provider- to oversee pitching of tents, directing guests to the sitting places, showing them the little rooms, collecting gifts.I am willing to attend the committee to pray for your marriage. I am willing to attend your wedding. I am willing to do all this. Friends need friends. But
friends don’t exploit friends.

I saw a facebook group you had created earlier as well- something about a goat eating party in preparation for ruracio (pre-wedding).   You will forgive me, because the first thing I thought was: what a money collecting idea!

I could push myself and bring you a gift on your wedding day. It is a noble thing to do. However, I will not buy you a wife, help you wed her in an expensive ceremony, then stock your house. I often tell people to live within their means. I know you will thank me someday.

If you cannot afford your wife’s dream wedding, and you give it to her still, what happens when she is about to deliver, and she needs a dream delivery at the Aga Khan-Princess Zuhura Pavillion? Will you call us for an emergency ‘my-wife-is-delivering’ committee? When the kid wants to go to school and has to go to Cianda School and Makini School, will you call us in as well? The world has needier people, and more deserving causes!

All I am saying is a wedding, a luxurious one in this case is not for you if you cannot afford three quarter of the money required.

Msiba Minnesota - Shadrack Balira

(Pichani Marehemu Shadrack Balira)

Familia ya Meshack Balira iliyoko New Hope Minnesota, Inasikitika Kutangaza kifo cha ndugu yao Shadrack Balira, Kilichotokea ghafla (3/20/2011) Bloomington Minnesota.
Maandalizi ya kuusafirisha mwili kwenda Bukoba Tanzania tarehe 3/28/2011 bado yanaendelea.
Kama sehemu ya maandalizi ya kusafarisha mwili wa marehemu tunategemea kuwa na harambe siku ya Ijumaa tarehe 3/25/2011. Tutawajulisha mahali pa kufanyia hiyo harambe kabla ya Ijumaa. Gharama ya kutunza mwili, kuusafirisha na pamoja na wasindikizaji itagharimu dola za kimarekani elfu ishirini ($20,000)

Kwa wale ambao hawataweza kufika unaweza kutuma rambirambi yako kwenye account hii

Meshack Balira
TCF Bank
Route# 599913501
Account # 3862282359

Kila siku tutakuwa tunakusanyika nyumbani kwa Meshack kuanzia saa 1 jioni,
Anwani ni:

4701 Decatur Ave North
New Hope, MN 55428

Tutaendelea kuwataarifu kuhusu mipango ya maandalizi kwa ujumla.

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Josiah Kibira - 763-229-2495
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Charles Semakula - 952-465-1130
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