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Engagement

engagement · Aug 2025 · 16 frames

A village engagement, start to finish — the drums arrive first.

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Procession musicians on the village road — two drummers with slung tapan drums and a zurna player leading the guests downhillOpen frame 1Guests crowd the groom-to-be as a zurna is played straight at him, the green fringed shawl over his shouldersOpen frame 2The bride-to-be in white beaded traditional dress and gold coins beside her fiancé, guests gathered under the treesOpen frame 3
The couple glimpsed between guests' shoulders, a patterned scarf crossing the foregroundOpen frame 4The groom-to-be in a pale suit with the green fringed ceremonial shawl, in the dressing room between hanging garmentsOpen frame 5The green fringed shawl with its white beaded medallion hung beside dresses, an embroidered portrait of the couple belowOpen frame 6
Close view of her eye beneath the beaded bonnet, a red flower fixed at its edgeOpen frame 7The bride-to-be laughing in profile in a white room, beaded veil and layered coin necklacesOpen frame 8The brooch bouquet of red and gold flowers resting against the beaded sleeveOpen frame 9
The bride-to-be and her maid of honour before a backdrop of hearts, the bouquet held between themOpen frame 10The couple side by side indoors — beaded whites against the grey suit and green shawlOpen frame 11Woman in a gold coin headdress and green scarf beside a man in a blue suit, posed beneath the windowOpen frame 12
Guests at the garden table, one standing mid-toast in a bright blue suitOpen frame 13Gifts wrapped in tulle and cellophane crowding a low-lit tableOpen frame 14Gift bags and wrapped hampers stacked in the half-dark of the gift roomOpen frame 15
The brooch bouquet carried down the lane after the ceremony, the bride-to-be following in her beaded whitesOpen frame 16