Presiding Bishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International Ministry, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has shared some nuggets on marriage, noting that marriage is reserved for only responsible men.
In an interview on TV3’s New Day, Friday, January 23, 2026, the eminent religious leader objected to the practice of men soliciting financial assistance from relatives and friends for their marriage ceremony.
He explained that such practice indicates that both the man and woman are not ready for marriage and could end up suffering to feed and cater for their home after the ceremony.
Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams stressed that marriage is responsibility and love alone is not enough for two people to tie the knot.
His clarification follows his recent teaching about marriage to his congregation where he openly criticising what he described as the growing culture of extravagant weddings and urged couples to place financial readiness above lavish ceremonies.
He further told his congregation that a man should not be allowed to have a wedding if he cannot prove that at least he has GH¢100,000 in his bank account.
“What I was trying to establish is that marriage is not just love or looks but it is responsibility and it looks like everybody is preparing for the wedding or engagement but we don’t prepare for after the marriage, after the wedding day.
“And so many people come to see me for help for marriage and I tell them no. You cannot marry. You don’t have what it takes. I won’t give you money because if you don’t have money, why are you going to marry? Marriage is responsibility. It takes money to marry, it doesn’t just take love to marry,” he stated.
Duncan-Williams further urged parents capable of funding their kids marriage not to do so, rather he advised that they transfer the funds into a bank account to help them in their life journey after marriage.
“I don’t think that parents who can afford paying for the weddings or marriages of their kids should encourage that. If you want to help them, put it in a savings account to help them, do something simple and let them begin their lives with something in their account because a lot of people are marrying and just going around begging and borrowing money and become beggars. And it is not helping,” he remarked.
Reacting to his earlier comment, he said “so the GHC100,000 was just a statement I made but for the truth if you really want to have a wedding the way they do it here in Africa today, you will need more than a GHC100,000 if you put all that it takes.
