For more than a decade, Daphne Siwardi has run a bridal rental shop out of a rusty old green caravan outside a Harare courthouse, offering cheap and speedy wedding goods and services to spouses in need
Source: Harare’s bridal rental shop – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Lovebirds in a rush to tie the knot and lifelong partners wanting to make things official on the cheap need not to worry in Zimbabwe. A rusty old green caravan parked outside a Harare courthouse holds the keys to a dream last-minute wedding. For more than a decade, Daphne Siwardi has run a bridal rental shop out of the white-roofed van, offering wedding dresses, bouquets, decorations, and speedy make-up and hairdressing services to spouses in need
Daphne Siwardi with a bouquet in her bridal rental shop at the magistrates court in Harare
Wedding dresses hang inside bridal rental shop
Martha Gutsa chooses a wedding dress
Memory gets a wedding gown fitted
Memory poses for a portrait after her fitting
Bridesmaids wait outside bridal rental shop
Memory poses for a portrait
Women pick out a bouquet inside the bridal rental shop
A bride and groom enter the wedding gown rental shop
A bride laughs after her wedding fitting inside the bridal rental shop
A groom leaves the wedding gown rental shop
A bride wears a wedding gown outside the magistrates court in Harare
