After the wedding ceremony

We were told to come to the wedding ceremony on Saturday at 3:00, but
"M" (my coworker) had been to two Ethiopian weddings before and
negotiated it to 3:30. However, as expected, it was 4:30 before things
really got started and the couple showed up. Everything took place in a
little over two hours, and around 7pm the couple clamored back in their
limo and the guests filed out the gates as well. M and I went to an
Italian restaurant called Zola that had been recommended by a guy at the
Italian Embassy as a good place for homestyle pasta. Zola was packed but
the waiter held up two fingers and when we nodded he waved us on in. We
were sat at a table for four facing a young Ethiopian couple obviously
on a date. They looked like they had been dating a while though and were
rather relaxed so I didn't feel too bad about sharing their table on
Valentine's Day of all things. We all said hello to each other politely
and then minded our own conversations; them speaking in Amharic and we
spoke in Japanese. After perusing the menu which had spaghetti, penne
and tagliatelle--which I now understood was baseline for Italian menus
in Addis Ababa--among other things, I ordered the lasagna, (which was
good, but I lamented that the poor guy at the Embassy had never tasted
/my mom's/ lasagna). After a while the couple left and two Ethiopian
guys sat down and ordered some national dishes which they ate with their
hands.