A Priest In Anambra State Weds Couple Despite Groom Father's Refusal (VIDEO).

The father with the couple.

A Catholic priest serving in Anambra State over the weekend went viral for wedding a couple despite disputes they had with the bride’s father.

In a video circulating and posted online, the Reverend Father narrated that the father of the bride, who is from Nteje in Anambra State, had insisted that the wedding should not take place unless his daughter comes to different shrines to make sacrifices because, according to the Reverend Father, the father of the bride and the mother of the bride were once married but had gone their separate ways.

Before the wedding, the bride's father repeatedly met with the priest, warning that he had already taken the bride's mother to a deity and that the girl must follow him to the shrine to appease that deity before the marriage could go on.

For peace to prevail, the priest advised the couple to comply with all the father’s requests; the priest even donated some of the items that the bride’s father told her to bring to use in appeasing the deity.

However, when the couple got to the shrine, the father suddenly changed his demand, insisting the daughter take an oath not to associate or have anything to do with her mother, his ex-wife, forever. The bride refused and ran away, but the priest went ahead and wedded the couple after praying for them.

In the video, the priest mentioned that he might not give them a wedding certificate, but he is going to bless their marriage, which he did.