{"id":599,"date":"2013-04-23T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=599"},"modified":"2013-04-23T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:01:20","slug":"traditional-marriage-in-united-states-gregory-oribhabhor-nigerianamerican-weds-stephanie-mateo-in-styledominican-bride-parents-witness-occasion-nigerias-strongest-ethnic-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/traditional-marriage-in-united-states-gregory-oribhabhor-nigerianamerican-weds-stephanie-mateo-in-styledominican-bride-parents-witness-occasion-nigerias-strongest-ethnic-group\/","title":{"rendered":"TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IN UNITED STATES!  Gregory Oribhabhor, Nigerian\/American Weds Stephanie Mateo in Style\u2026Dominican Bride Parents witness occasion *Nigeria\u2019s strongest ethnic group (EPA) in North America eulogize couple *Friends, Family relations celebrate couple *Grooms parents wish new hubby\/wife happy life *RCCG House on the Rock Pastor Kuye pronounced them blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IN UNITED STATES!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Gregory Oribhabhor, Nigerian\/American Weds Stephanie Mateo in Style\u2026<\/b><b>Dominican Bride Parents witness occasion<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Nigeria\u2019s strongest ethnic group (EPA) in North America eulogize couple<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Friends, Family relations celebrate couple<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Grooms parents wish new hubby\/wife happy life<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>RCCG House on the Rock Pastor Kuye pronounced them blessings<a href=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Groom-and-bride-on-JPg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-600\" alt=\"Groom and bride  on JPg\" src=\"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Groom-and-bride-on-JPg-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>BY SAMSON SHOAGA\/<i>MANAGING EDITOR,<\/i> TEXAS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEWEST couple in Texas-Gregory Oribhabhor and Stephanie Mateo were full of smiles all through their historic wedding on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at Hope\u2019s Place, located in 2500 E Random Mill Road, Arlington, as they continually displayed affection and genuine love expression without any pretense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Gregory dumps Bachelorhood marries Stephanie Mateo in Style <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For every invitee to the wedding, <b><i>Naija Standard<\/i><\/b> can tell you that this couple at no time hid their emotional feelings for each other, which made on-lookers to have said \u201cthey would make an evergreen couple after marriage.\u201d In short, Gregory dumps bachelorhood to embrace marriage-man status.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding laced in colors, panache, had invitee dressed in native attires mostly in blue and yellow colors, been official colors chosen by celebrants\u2019 parents for the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Nigeria\u2019s Strongest Ethnic Group-Esan Progressive Association<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In United States, especially in North America; Esan Progressive Association (EPA) is acknowledged and regarded the most successful and strongest Nigeria\u2019s strongest association because of its spread, influence, contacts and personalities in the group. EPA executives and members were present as they came in colorful attires to witness the traditional wedding. EPA executives and members were full of praises to the couple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Groom Parents pray for couple<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For Mathew Oribhabhor,<b> <\/b>a very hardworking, God-fearing, top analyst with Citigroup in United States and his wife, Ann, a successful business woman are in a happy mood all through. Also, every members of their family present at the wedding were extremely elated as a result of the traditional wedding ceremony of Gregory, an upward-mobile and handsome man, to his heart rob- Stephanie Mateo, a beautiful bride from Dominican Republic, but born in California, United States.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Society Wedding of Gregory &amp; Stephanie attracts Dignitaries<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Naija Standard<\/i><\/b>\u00a0gathered that due to the love story of this newly married couple and high profile society status of their parents in United States, several captains of business industries in Africa, Dominic Republic and America witnessed the day, now regarded a historic traditional nuptial engagements of this second son of Oribhabhor to Stephanie. In short, it is a high-powered party of \u2018who\u2019s who in America.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gregory of dual citizenship of Nigeria\/America works with Travelclick and he is celebrity\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/grand-traditional-celebration-in-america-unveiling-society-wedding-of-gregory-a-nigerian-to-stephanie-a-black-americannigerian-black-american-dominican-republic-communities-to-party-in\/\">photo journalist<\/a>. As such, he did not leave any stone un-turned to have ensured his wedding remains the \u2018talk-of-the-town\u2019 for a long time in United States.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nParental Blessings for the couples<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mathew and Mrs Guzman, father of groom and mother of the bride had happily offered their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/grand-traditional-celebration-in-america-unveiling-society-wedding-of-gregory-a-nigerian-to-stephanie-a-black-americannigerian-black-american-dominican-republic-communities-to-party-in\/\">prayers<\/a>\u00a0and blessings for the couples. This is the main reason; friends and family members across the Atlantic and overseas were around in Blue and Yellow color dresses-been the traditional wedding official dress code to witness the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Edo indigenes in United States Congratulate Couple<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As at the time of filing this report, Edo indigenes from states like Chicago, Washington,\u00a0New York City; Texas, Philadelphia, and various states in United States were part of this ceremony of the Oribhabor family who are from Ewohimi, Edo State, Nigeria. As such, several congratulatory\u00a0<a title=\"Click to Continue &gt; by Discount Buddy\" href=\"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/grand-traditional-celebration-in-america-unveiling-society-wedding-of-gregory-a-nigerian-to-stephanie-a-black-americannigerian-black-american-dominican-republic-communities-to-party-in\/\">messages<\/a>\u00a0had been sent to the \u2018couples\u2019 families\u2019 ahead of the party date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Pastor Kuye offered sermon and prayer for couples<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Naija Standard<\/i><\/b>\u00a0can tell you authoritatively that there was the divine said to the wedding, as Pastor Gbenga Kuye, Senior Pastor, House on the Rock, Grand Praire, Texas preached to the people and pronounced blessings on the couple with an echoing \u2018Amen\u2019 from the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IN UNITED STATES! Gregory Oribhabhor, Nigerian\/American Weds Stephanie Mateo in Style\u2026Dominican Bride Parents witness occasion Nigeria\u2019s strongest ethnic group (EPA) in North America eulogize couple Friends, Family relations celebrate couple Grooms parents wish new hubby\/wife happy life RCCG House on the Rock Pastor Kuye pronounced them blessings &nbsp; BY SAMSON SHOAGA\/MANAGING EDITOR, TEXAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}