Tycoon Ntake throws mass wedding for 10 employees

The mass wedding was arranged and fully funded by Mr. Gaster Lule aka Ntake, the proprietor and managing director of bread and pastries company Ntake Group of Companies, for 10 of his male employees.

Speaking at the reception which was held inside the bakery premises in Nalukolongo, Mr Lule thanked his employees for being hard working and loyal to the company.

“I also want to thank God for the parents of these young men for raising them well, giving them education up to the point where I met them and employed them,” he said.

The idea of the mass wedding, he said, was conceived inside the Ntage Chapel which holds weekly prayers every Wednesday.

Lule, who himself is a church leader at the level of Canon, said during one of the church services, he noticed that some of the employees were not going for holy communion.

“Rev Mayanja was leading prayers and John Ssali, one of our grooms today was sitting just next to the altar and suddenly I saw him retreating to the back of the church. I later asked him and he said it was because he was not married in Holy Matrimony,” he said.

That, Lule said, was the time he made the decision to support all his employees of all religious backgrounds to have official marriages.

John Ssali exchanged marriage vows with his bride Generous Katushabe.

The other newlyweds including Ivan and Olivia, Francis and Faith, Hakeem and Fiona, Ashraf and Mastuula, and Drake and Christine looked dazzling as they treated the guests to stylish dance moves.

Each couple had their own bridesmaids and cut their own cake.

Today’s wedding was the second of its kind at Ntake, the first having happened in 2018.

At the event, Mrs Josephine Kasaato the former Namirembe Diocesan Mothers' Union President, who spoke on behalf of the parents of the newlyweds, appealed to them to love one another endlessly and to work hard in order to add value to one another.

Meanwhile, at the event, Lule revealed that soon his company will be rolling out new products including bar soap and cooking oil at a new plant under construction at the Namanve Industrial Park.