The Accra International Conference Center since Friday has become the most saturated spot of young would-be couples and newlyweds in Ghana.

You could sense the common need, you could touch the common desire, and we were all strangers with no secrets. If you bumped into anybody, you got a knowing smile.

We were all looking for the same thing: how to put a ring on it – and keep the ring on it – forever.

We were one family of unfamiliar faces yet familiar needs.

This impression was overwhelming – like a spirit hovering the center knowing every need. Don’t get too spiritual yet. That spirit was Joy FM. Simple. This ability to touch the right nerve and organise relevant programmes for a growing listener base and still get it spot on is getting legendary.

Who knows, the power station may have brokered new relationships or spiced up old ones through a programme as crucial as this. 

You don’t have to take this from me. The Joy FM Bridal Fair is a packaged patronized panacea.

Another phrase for a thorough one-stop shop for everything – everything – and yes – every single thing you need to get married.

If you wanted to get married that Saturday, there was even a pastor -Rev. Kissiedu - standing by and several shops from bras to bracelets, make-ups to mortgages, gowns to groom’s accessories.

I saw a young married man busily selecting jaw-dropping nighties with his beautiful wife – and Black-eyed Peas song kicked up a beat in my mind – “I got a feeling that tonight gonna be a good night”

 

Marriage seminar

Uncle Ebo Whyte in his usual witty presentations, talked about how not to have an affair. Using an 80-20 principle, he said a partner may satisfy 80% of your needs but beware of anybody, at work, in church, in an Association who satisfying the 20% gives you a false hope that your partner was a wrong choice.

Beware of greener pastures. Because rejecting 80% for 20% is a weird understanding of value for money.

He counseled the young audience to appreciate the fact that marriage is not meant to make you happy; it is God’s way of making you a better person.

“Marriage is a school”, he said noting that those who go to school to have fun, fail all their exams.

Reverend Kissiedu will be remembered mostly by the women for his idiots-guide-to –sex presentation among others.

He told young men to understand, you don’t grab a breast like you grab a thief. Take your time, my brother.

A man is about being, not doing. The goal of marriage, he said is to be not to do. And he designated men as creatures of the eye and women – creatures of the ears.

There were questions – lots of questions after a debate on how much of a partner’s past must be disclosed in a relationship.

From handling stingy guys to handling ladies who haven’t had orgasm and to guys who always sing ‘my mum, my mum, my mum, questions came from every quarter.

After the seminar -let's go shopping

The packed audience was let loose into the exhibition spaces, the air filled with a mixture of individual perfumes heralded their coming – every stand had a small crowd and exhibitors looked pleased to find so much interest in their services.

In the end, the fair was like the Ghana-Germany match. Nobody lost. There was applause for everybody. Exhibitors would be glad to get customers, patrons will be happy for the variety, conference speakers were mindful of the impact.

The only dissatisfied group was those who stayed home. Yes you. Such a terrible miss.