On September 9th, Ariana Austin and Joel Makonnen swapped vows during a lavish Maryland wedding but their love story isn’t an ordinary one–it’s a royal one. Makonnen happens to be the great-grandson ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Hiwot Woldgeorgis and Yohanis Menje followed traditional practices on their wedding weekend of Sept. 2 to 4, 2017. They tucked in ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- After learning about a planned mass wedding event in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, through social media, Henry Kinda and his fiancee Roth Kinda eagerly decided ...

Ask Rahel Solomon and Marcel Pratt where they first met, and they’ll give you the same answer: a professional networking event at Del Frisco’s in Center City. But what the duo can’t agree on is who ...

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia is gearing up to host a spectacular mass wedding ceremony in Addis Ababa, uniting 1,000 Ethiopian couples with 250 African counterparts. The grand event, organized by Yeshi ...

The couple exchanged vows on July 13 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, before a second day cultural reception called a “Melse” to enjoy Ethiopian food and dancing Alison Conklin Photography Rahel ...

Before I actually went to Ethiopia, my only mental images of it came from the devastating famine there back in the 1980s. The one that led to a permed Sally Struthers begging for 70 cents a day from a ...

Hair braiding tells a story. Of womanhood. Of age. Of what it means to be Habesha and find your way back to rituals that almost disappeared. For Brehan, a 37-year-old bride-to-be in Dallas with both ...

Prince Yoel of Ethiopia—the great-grandson of Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia—was finishing up his law degree at Howard University when he bought a diamond ring to propose to ...

Egla Taye and Olana Olana threw summertime tropes to the wind, marrying in an intimate cranberry-and-gold themed wedding that paid homage to their Ethiopian heritage. Bonus: the couple donned ...

In human life, transition from one status to the other is a common phenomenon. There are rituals that are performed in the time of transition. Rite of passage is among these rituals. It is a ritual ...