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130 Afghan couples marry in Kabul mass wedding
Dozens of Afghan women concealed in thick green shawls were married off in an austere mass wedding in Kabul on Monday, in a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests and gun-toting Taliban fighters.
Marriage is a costly affair in deeply impoverished Afghanistan, traditionally involving huge dowries, expensive gifts and lavish parties.
Historically, couples from families unable to foot the bill have sometimes opted to pool their resources in low-cost large scale marriages.
Monday's ceremony hitching 70 couples was one of the largest recently witnessed in Afghanistan, currently in economic freefall since the return of the Taliban.
"Today, no young man wants to bear the burden of an expensive wedding," said groom Ebadullah Niazai, who had waited eight years to be married.
"I have no job. We were short of money and so we decided to marry at a mass wedding ceremony," said 22 year-old groom Esmatullah Bashardost, who hails from the minority Shiite Hazara community.
Bashardost, sporting a traditional Afghan cap, said his wedding would likely be the most "happy day" of his life.
However celebrations were dramatically dampened by frigid restrictions the Taliban have imposed on social life.
Monday's ceremony hitching 70 couples was one of the largest recently witnessed in Afghanistan, currently in economic freefall since the return of the Taliban Sahel ARMAN AFP
Before they seized power in August weddings were riotously colourful affairs marked with singing, dancing, and some degree of mingling between men and women in the deeply conservative nation
A single day booking at a Kabul wedding hall costs between $10,000 and $20,000 and organiser Sayed Ahmad Selab said some betrothed couples were "waiting for years" because of the expense.
During their first regime between 1996 and 2001 the Taliban barred showy weddings.
After surging back to power on the heels of a hasty US withdrawal, the Islamists have yet to reinstate their previous ban but they have forbidden musical entertainment.
Meanwhile, they have also issued creeping restrictions on women, segregating them from men and rolling back marginal gains they made over the past two decades.
In May women were told to stay at home as much as possible and to conceal themselves completely, including their faces, should they need to step out in public..
On Monday the brides and grooms were kept separate throughout the ceremony.
Guests of opposite sexes were separated by around a dozen Taliban fighters patrolling with weapons, and the only entertainment was poetry recitations and speeches by charity organisers of the event.
Journalists were not allowed to speak to the brides, who wore crisp white gowns under their concealing shawls, but were permitted to photograph and film them.
A red and white wedding cake was produced for each couple, but was placed in front of the men only, who wore traditional white shalwar kameez.
The event ended as grooms -- each sporting a plastic name badge -- collected their brides and left the venue in cars decorated with flowers and ribbons.

[@rasa_in2745]

Masya allah, thanks for sharing, love from Indonesian 🇮🇩

[@landi76]

*couple wedding without any women ?*

[@davidshams5985]

Thank you! If we don't build our country together and don't help each other, no one will!

[@Alishba_ヅ]

Who prepare this?

[@zaibcom]

NICE Sharing

[@adeleawl4432]

Congratulations to all the brother and sister we are happy for you Allah and our prophet did said family is life and our Afghanistan understand very well they honor it very well !!! Mabrouk

[@AbshirMohamud-np9zt]

You are a Somali, I am a Somali and I live in Ogadenia, ya Allah make Ogadenia and Palestine free as you have shown us in Afghanistan, freed from the West and America.

[@abidullahshinwari-um2yv]

nice video

[@OnePasthoProduction]

SO SWEET

[@RysiuKoropiczyszewski]

All these guys walking around were previously having good time with😊an bride?

[@condoyle8963]

Who are they marrying?

[@sarojchauhan-ii3pm]

Good discipline

[@ImranIntezar-kc6dt]

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[@sparklesunshine6263]

"I have no job. We were short of money and so we decided to marry at a mass wedding ceremony," said 22 year-old groom Esmatullah Bashardost.
Oh well, I hope the 14 year old girl who married him has enough to eat.

[@lubicakamzikova74]

Zenaty dostane pracu prednosne😊
Žena predsa niečo stoji 😊.
Slovencina

[@target9972]

Talibans with guns in the middle of the wedding party. Who is protecting whom here?

[@richardbock7344]

Zoyirjon menham borsam boladimi meni yoshim54 da

[@lubicakamzikova74]

😅👍 jo niz ki turban 😅

[@jimlee3725]

No women? Who are they marring to?

[@adeleawl4432]

is not tradition to show women ceremony their male family represent them...( beautiful culture)

[@landi76]

more than 3 women together on one place are only allowed in brothel or in grave

[@artmaknev3738]

women at home cooking

[@SpecialFoods7]

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