{"id":236614,"date":"2025-10-21T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/from-lovebirds-to-locomotives-nollywood-actor-faqua-makes-history-with-first-ever-moving-train-wedding\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:28:14","slug":"from-lovebirds-to-locomotives-nollywood-actor-faqua-makes-history-with-first-ever-moving-train-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/from-lovebirds-to-locomotives-nollywood-actor-faqua-makes-history-with-first-ever-moving-train-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018From Lovebirds To Locomotives\u2019 \u2013 Nollywood Actor, Faqua Makes History With First-ever Moving Train Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nollywood actor<\/strong>, Shawn Faqua, and event planner, Sharon Ifunanya Maduekwe, have become the first couple in Nigeria to hold a wedding ceremony on a train.<\/p>\n

Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the celebrities who recently got engaged tied the knot aboard a moving Lagos\u2013Ibadan train.<\/p>\n

The intimate celebration was attended by close family members, friends and industry colleagues.<\/p>\n

In the video shared by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) via \ud835\udd4f, the couple transformed the train\u2019s coaches into a stunning wedding venue, with floral arrangements, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and officiating ministers who conducted the ceremony while the train was in motion.<\/p>\n

Celebrating the landmark event, NRC commended the couple for their creativity and uniqueness.<\/p>\n

The post read, \u201cFrom lovebirds to locomotives, we\u2019re keeping things on track. History made, the first-ever wedding on a moving train in Nigeria. Proof that the journey can be just as beautiful as the destination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The ceremony has since gone viral across social media, drawing admiration from Nigerians who applauded the couple\u2019s originality.<\/p>\n

@Ibilola53527993 wrote: \u201cBeautiful people in a beautiful setting. The highlight for me- the ladies\u2019 dressing is decent and clean. Happy married life to the couple.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

@Mayor5431 wrote: \u201cThanks for the idea. Now I don see where I go conduct my wedding to avoid crowd and feeding a whole community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

@oluofsheffield wrote: \u201cThis is fantastic, please is tje guideline to partner with NRC on logistics and haulage in Nigeria\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

@GeraldUbakor wrote: \u201cThis\u2019s super creative and beautiful\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

@EzeLimitless wrote: \u201cIt was such a good way to promote the Nigerian Railway Corporation\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

@WilliamsFolu wrote: \u201cAbsolutely awesome. Congratulations to the couples and to NRC.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

@queenlizzie61 wrote: \u201cI love people that comes up with new ideas just to make their day special, and not the regular\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nollywood actor, Shawn Faqua, and event planner, Sharon Ifunanya Maduekwe, have become the first couple in Nigeria to hold a wedding ceremony on a train. Abia Radio News reports that the celebrities who recently got engaged tied the knot aboard a moving Lagos\u2013Ibadan train. The intimate celebration was attended by close family members, friends and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":236615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1848,2191,2192],"class_list":["post-236614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-nollywood-actor","tag-sharon-ifunanya-maduekwe","tag-shawn-faqua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shawn-Faqua-and-sharon-1000x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}