{No one in this country full of beautiful young ladies that leave first time tourists amazed denies the importance of starting up a family when you are in the early years (25-30) is a good idea due to the advantages it brings about; Curbing down on wasting money on unnecessary activities like daily drinking, buying clothes you won’t wear in four months, partying every Friday night with people you don’t know to avoid being bored at home, going for holidays with no purpose and yes the evil of all; sleeping around with different girls especially university girls who can’t afford a meal at a classy restaurant around town.}

For those who have been lucky to find a partner, it’s a beautiful feeling if you are really committed to moving things to the next level and then here comes up the issue of marriage costs around this green city of ours. Most of the young graduates earn between RWF 2.5 – 5 Million net income p.a yet they budget for weddings that involve expensive rental cars, church size wedding halls, decorations that will only last a day, no offense to our amazing cultural dancing troops but you cost a fortune then we have to invite the friends we had in Primary up to those in our university years, close cousins to distant ones and our parents’ old friends to the neighbors we don’t even know what they do for a living. The budget for the wedding goes beyond the majority these future fathers have managed to save and most of the times they are a few thousands on the account as he starts conceptualizing of the challenges of having a young family.

As I embark on convincing that beautiful girl I will once call the lady of my life how we shouldn’t take loans to stage a moment that will only last for 24 hours, my fellow young countrymen out there let us stop using our limited resources on pretending to live the lives we can’t afford. We are a developing country and let us show our parents that the country they have fought to put to light for the last 19 years has a future full of responsive citizens when they are gone.

NB: {The picture we used was found on the Internet}