Creative Teaming recently hosted the wedding of Tim and Azlina Wetmore amidst the incredible beauty and quiet serenity of Prince Christian Island just above Victoria Falls.
The idea for these wedding plans was born out of the couple's passion for the senses of Africa. They wanted to share these feelings, the sights, sounds and smells, with their friends and family, and with the help of Beth Carpenter, Cansaf's wedding co-ordinator this was to become a reality. More.

A Uniquely African wedding!
At 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the wedding the Groom, best man and all the guests congregated at the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge overlooking the waterhole, for a final pre wedding drink to still any giddies. A massive thunderstorm welled overhead, releasing a typically African, short sharp torrential downpour as if to bless the union about to be formed. Proceedings delayed by almost an hour meant a few more Zambezi Lagers could be consumed before it was time to leave.
The group were transported up into the National park to the banks of the Zambezi River where rafts and raft guides awaited to float them down stream.
The Zambezi River upstream of Victoria Falls forms intricate channels between islands, its banks thickly vegetated with hanging Waterberries and majestic Ilala Palms. These serene islands and quiet river channels provide comfort and shelter for small groups of elephant passing between Zambia and Zimbabwe. And as the rafts gently meandered in the current of the river, the guests, excited by this incredible location peer eagerly around hoping for a special sighting. The loud cry of a fish eagle seems to echo the approval of the events about to unfold.
Prince Christian Island is located in sight of the towering plume of spray, as the Zambezi surges over the last kilometres before the treacherous fall and thunderous tumult that is the "Smoke that Thunders". It is here on this island amidst towering ebony trees, in a location 'borrowed from nature' that a temporary chapel has been sited, with views of the Zambezi on three sides. The pews and isles have been expertly decorated with indigenous pods and flowers in tribute to the intricacies of natural Africa, and the soft sand spread with flower petals. Continued...
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