A couple of days after Aishat Bolomope’s wedding on Dec. 31, the newlywed realized that she might be spending her honeymoon on the choppy seas of internet outrage.
A dispute between a wedding party and a coffee shop in Indianapolis had turned into a referendum on wedding etiquette and cultural norms, all of it warped by the distorting lens of social media.
“The more I read, the more it broke my heart,” said Ms. Bolomope, a 28-year-old engineer.
At the center of the maelstrom are the mother-daughter duo that runs the coffee shop, Mansion Society, and a young Nigerian couple (Ms. Bolomope and her husband, Opeyemi Akanni, 27) who wanted to marry there.
On Dec. 5, Ms. Bolomope went there to speak with the building’s manager, Isaac Barrow, about holding a small wedding ceremony in the coffee shop.
Persons:
Aishat, ”, Bolomope, Opeyemi Akanni, Isaac Barrow
Organizations:
Mansion Society
Locations:
Nigeria, Indianapolis, Nigerian