19/7/2014 0 Comments The absent bridegroomThe absent bridegroom.
Maybe the most jaw dropping story we heard was on our last bus journey to Istanbul, and it made us realise how different we all are in the world. How things we think are bizarre are just commonplace in other parts of the world. So... After a few hours on our 35 hr bus trip the other passengers started to talk to us, at the various breaks we had, tea, prayers, bus washing etc etc There was a young happy couple in front of us that approached us. After the preliminaries we found out more about them. They were from a different ethnic group in Iran the Kurdish, who have their own customs and I believe are looked down a little by the Persians as a little bit inferior!!!! The young man already dressed a little different as his trousers were massively pleated around the waist and of a culturally different style. We found out she was divorced with a daughter who was 16, married last year and was pregnant and just about to have the baby. She told us her daughter had to get married to get away from her ex husbands new wife, the step mother. Ok..... Then we were told our lady was now married to another man from Iran who lived in Germany. Ok..... And she was on her way to meet him, after arriving in Istanbul the young man with her ( who turned out to be her re husbands nephew. Or chaperone) was helping her get to Germany , it became obvious she wasn't going back to Iran as she had said goodbye to everyone in her family including her daughter. Ok...... Now the good bits.!!!!!( which we got to know over the course of the journey) she had actually been married for two years but hadn't seen her husband, we thought since then, NO..... They had NEVER met only on Internet & Skype .... Ok..... Now the really really good bit.... She showed me the wedding photos, families including her new husbands parents and all his brothers. But no bridegroom, one picture had the happy bride.... She was holding a framed photo of him...... YES they got married without him even being there !!!!!! All over the Internet and skype. Is this legal !!!!! Amazing. The photos were also quite unique as she was looking very modern but the rest of the family looked like they were from another world, looking like it was taken last century, with their Kurdish traditional clothing,looking very old fashioned, really really amazing.
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