Together with our families

Novuyo & Muzingaye

Saturday 31 October 2026 Three o’clock

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Two families becoming one

Our families have shared in this journey with us, and now all that’s left is to gather the people we love most and celebrate together.

We are having one celebration and one only: a traditional wedding, on a Saturday afternoon, surrounded by the people who raised us. This site holds everything you need. Please RSVP so we know to set a place for you.

The essentials

One day, everything you need

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When

Saturday 31 October 2026.
It begins at 15:00.
The bridal team enters at 15:30.

ii

Where

Eastwood Community Centre.
Western Approaches, Southend-on-Sea SS2 6XY.
Directions and parking on the Travel page.

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What to wear

Traditional attire, warmly encouraged.
Black and white.
Bring a coat: dark by five.

A couple in black and white traditional attire, forehead to forehead against the setting sun
How it began

Kudala, in Woodville

We have known each other since around the year 2000, back in Woodville. Kudala, as they say. Long before any of this, and long before either of us had any idea where it was going.

Twelve years later, in 2012, we started dating. Nothing about it felt sudden. What had always been familiar simply became something else.

Twenty-six years of knowing each other. Fourteen years of growing together. Now we would like you here for the part that comes next.

Read Our Story
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.
A person is a person through other people.
Nguni Proverb
A glimpse

The look and feel

Woven fans and grasses, warm clay, beadwork and gold, and a table worth sitting at.

Woven fans and grasses dressed with flowers
Draped setting with gilded frames and soft furnishings
Table detail: patterned vessel, woven basket and palm
A decorated ceremonial broom dressed with white flowers
On the subject of gifts

Your presence is the gift

Having you with us is the part we have been looking forward to most. That is what the whole day is for.

And if you would like to mark it with a gift towards our new chapter, we would love that. The details are on the Gifts page.

Gift Details
Please RSVP by 30 September 2026

Will you be joining us?

Every seat, every plate and every place is counted by hand. Please let us know either way so nothing is left empty.

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