Wedding Photos (Turkamans)
This photo essay presented by farsnews shows the colorful wedding styles of the Turkamans of Iran.
When courting, the groom to be must prepare a Qatlama, which is a special sweetmeat.
If the bride's family accepts the Qatlama, it means that they agree to the wedding.
The family of the bride-groom adorns a camel with ornamented clothes and lays a litter on it to mount the bride over the animal and carry her to the grooms house.
The camel is driven by a respectable elder among the tribe and at times by the groom himself.
However, with the arrival of cars, this tradition has fallen out of practice in the majority of the cities but still in remote mountainous regions such as Gelidagh, Maraveh tappeh, Dashli boroon and Kalaleh, the bride is carried away with such ancient traditions.
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