Zone Interdite - The Most Luxurious Weddings in the World (Dubaï)

Aug 15, 2018 • M6 is delving into the top weddings in the world, focussing on the traditional Indian wedding of Aradhna and Kevish in Dubaï, the city of money. The couple has hired fashion designer Sakina Shbib for the making of the wedding dress. Will she be up to the challenge? | Views on YouTube” 262,015

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How Will Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress Measure Up to History?
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Hilary Alexander * was given a preview of a lovingly restored and rarely seen collection of royal wedding dresses dating back to 1816.

In what was once the late Princess Margaret's apartments at Kensington Palace, the six wedding dresses, each one a fashion fairytale brimming with true stories of passion, power and politics, are bathed in the glow of concealed spotlights which capture the sheen of satin, and the twinkle of silver, still glistening after nearly 200 years.

Abiding love, love thwarted, love lost, and love ultimately denied; the deepest of all emotions are embedded in silken folds, painstaking stitches of Honiton lace, and tiny flowers of orange blossom and rose, fashioned from wax, embellishing the off-the-shoulder, 'Bertha' necklines. » | Hilary Alexander * | Friday, April 22, 2011

* We are NOT related.

TELEGRAPH PHOTO GALLERY: Royal wedding gowns in history »

Royal Weddings and American Marriage

TIME: Who Needs Marriage? How an American Institution Is Changing >>> Belinda Luscombe | Thursday, November 18, 2010

Saudi Arabia's Cruel Marriage Laws
THE GUARDIAN: Saudi women who wish to marry non-Saudi Muslims face social prejudice and official discrimination

Accompanied by her father, Hassna'a Mokhtar went to the Saudi Arabian interior ministry in Jeddah to sign papers for a marriage licence. She was hoping to get a sense of how long it would take to get permission, so that she could plan her wedding. But that was not the case.

A Saudi woman falling in love with a non-Saudi Muslim leads to more obstacles than a Capulet falling in love with a Montague. In most parts of society, a father can decline a suitor simply because he is not a Saudi. The tribal mentality has changed, at least to some degree, among the middle and upper classes. But even if the father consents, the Saudi government makes it arduous for the couple to proceed with the marriage.

All Saudi men and women must obtain a permission to marry a non-Saudi Muslim before marriage (nikkah). And there is one set of rules for men and another for women. "Why is it so difficult to get the permit?" Mokhtar asked the female officer at the interior ministry. "The country wants to protect you," she recalls the officer responding. The officer told Mokhtar that she, too, wanted to marry a non-Saudi Muslim but would have to resign from her government job to do so.

Mokhtar, now 32, was ready to marry, but faced many hurdles. She applied for the marriage license in June 2007 and finally received it a year later. "They [the Saudi government] are not going to solve the problem by forcing men or women to marry another Saudi," said Mokhtar. "They should leave the choices open."

When she finally did get married, it was the beginning of another set of problems. In that, she is not alone. Her husband was not automatically eligible for a residency permit (iqamah). He can visit her in Saudi Arabia on a visa that can be extended up to two months, on which he can neither work nor own a car or a property. And there is no set of procedures for obtaining residency; it could take months if you know someone who can get it done through the back door, or it could take years. >>> Fahad Faruqui | Saturday, April 03, 2010

Don’t you just love that stupid-looking woolly cap? Photo: Mail Online
War March Fanatic Anjem Choudary Runs Secret Sharia ‘Weddings’
MAIL ONLINE: The Muslim extremist planning a march through Wootton Bassett runs a secret sharia court where he marries hundreds of couples – then tells them not to register their weddings.

Anjem Choudary tells them that registering their marriages is forbidden in Islam, as it would be recognition of British law.

But critics said he was leaving women open to abuse, as they could not go to a normal court to escape a violent husband or win their share in a divorce.

Mr Choudary’s Islam 4 UK group wants to carry 500 coffins through the Wiltshire town to remember Afghans killed by Britain and America.

He styles himself the judge of the UK Sharia Court and principal lecturer of the London School of Sharia and has claimed that he runs a network of Islamic courts in London, Luton, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester.

He claims that he has married more than 1,800 couples across Britain in less than ten years and conducted hundreds of divorces. >>> Abdul Taher | Saturday, January 09, 2010