Marriage Preparation

Advice for those about to get married and how to prepare for this important step

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The Indonesian and Malay Wedding: Akad Nikah, Hantaran and Bersanding

He had practised it for three weeks. One sentence, one breath, in front of everyone — and if he stumbled, he would have to say it again.

Somebody drew a pen through clause eighteen and said, without looking up, that it was not their cust...

Sixty people watched him sit on the floor with the knot in his hands for twenty minutes, and every o...

Emre drank the whole cup without changing his face. His future mother-in-law had put two spoons of s...

Two friends held his hands still while a third drew the henna, and Mo'taz laughed so hard the patter...

The hall was booked and the dresses were chosen when a cousin nobody had thought about in years made...

The trays came down the street with the drums in front of them. Amira counted eleven. Her aunt, with...

Seven men sat in the room and the coffee went cold in front of them. Nobody would touch a cup until...

Yamina had been married six years when a clerk told her, politely, that as far as the state was conc...

Munira had been married for eight months and still said goodnight to her husband at her father's fro...