VIDEO: Nigerian groom who was embarrassed and sent out of his wedding opens up about cause of incident

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The groom from Nigeria had an unexpected turn of events on his wedding day when he was asked to leave the ceremony because of his thick beard.
After the incident went viral recently, there was a lot of discussion about religion and Christian practice in the comments area.

The groom, @alhaji_brian, recently posted a new video on TikTok in which he described the circumstances surrounding his dismissal.
Brian, a self-described devoted Christian, had seen his church pastor for pre-marital counselling sessions.

The pastor asked that Brian clip his beard during these sessions. Brian obliged to some extent—cutting back on both the length and thickness—but the area superintendent of the church thought his facial hair was still too much.

Brian had only met the superintendent the day before, and he insisted that Christians had to follow specific appearance standards.
Brian felt unfairly judged, arguing that his faith transcended physical appearance.

The pastor sent Brian away the day of the wedding, saying he couldn’t proceed with the ceremony until the men’s beards were trimmed.

In Brian’s words:

“I am the one you are seeing in this video. I was sent out on my wedding day because of my beards. Of course I am a Christian and my name is Alhaji Brian.

“This is what really happened and why I was sent out on my wedding day. Some people said it was content. I cannot create a content that will leave my wife crying for over 45 minutes on our wedding day.

“I had a counselling session with the church pastor and he asked me to reduce my beards. I told him I will work him on it which I did because my beards were way way longer and heavier than what you saw.

“The person that sent me out is not the branch pastor. He is the area superintendent. I got to meet him a day before my wedding and all they were concerned about was my beards not even whether I love my wife.

“I asked him why I should cut my beards and he said there are standards in Christianity that must be followed. A Christian should look like a Christian that I don’t look like one. I look more like a Muslim.”

In response to the video, social media users flooded TikTok’s comments area.

@Titi_nwa said: “I don’t even understand this comment section. In as much as personally I don’t like overgrown beards, It’s totally his choice to grow the beards and if the wife is okay with it then there’s no issue.”

@SPIRITFX TRADING ACADEMY stated: “Appearance does matter! Sometimes people will turn you down even before getting to know you because of your appearance!”

@twins said: “Those of u Blaming the past listing to him again they ask him to reduce it even explained to him but he chose not to. I can tell u that’s one of the best church in Nigeria.”

@ChrisTianah Closet said: “Na my church The Apostolic church Dey get area superintendent. We no Dey take indiscipline. Even one woman was sent out of the church for child dedication bcos she was putting on beads.”

@Sky light added: “And on earth will they send him out because of his beard? ain’t men of Israelite full of bears? What’s wrong with bears people should educate me more.”

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