A Persian wedding with all its intriguing conventions and mores is a festive topic replete with stunning visuals; delicious food; and cultural and historical notes of interest. I’ve long pined to cover the subject and it is one that merits more than a superficial glance – so it is destined to be a series of posts instead of a singleton. (And that’s not a threat, it is a treat! Trust me!)
Consider this a clinking-the-glass-making-an-announcement post, so no tackling anything of substance just yet. For its first installment, I think it will be fun to kick off this “Iranian Weddings” series with a picture-story post chronicling the historic and glamorous weddings of the last and late king of Iran. (Yes, weddings, as in plural. The Shah married 3 times. Consecutively – no overlaps!)
As a teaser and to get you in the mood, I’ll leave you with this wedding-party group-shot of the Shah’s first matrimony, when he was not yet 20, to the absurdly beautiful Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, who was herself barely 18. Their wedding took place in the Abedin Palace in Cario, Egypt, and was followed up with a Persian wedding ceremony back in Iran. (I hope it won’t be a spoiler to tell you that their marriage ended in a divorce a few years down the road.)
Next up: The complete picture-story post of the royal Persian weddings and the profile of the three distinctly different yet equally intriguing (each in their own right) women who went on to become queens of Iran.
[Note to those of Persian persuasion: If any of y'all irooniha or half irooni or irani by marriage or proxy care to share your pix of sofreh 'ye aghd that could potentially be posted to the blog, I'd love and appreciate it. If so, please contact me!]
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This series is dedicated to my lovely friend: Nirvana
