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Wedding party, Khiva, Uzbekistan

Continuing with the series of wedding photographs, here is one of a wedding party departing Khiva. One afternoon, a series of wedding parties entered the main gates and paused between the mosques and minarets to dance and celebrate the nuptuals. A small booth selling Uzbek dance music would play a few chosen tracks while the guests danced around the bride. As quickly as the wedding parties would appear, they would disappear to be followed by another.

I first heard a party arrive as I was eating lunch. The town had been quiet up until then. Suddenly dance music bounced off the ancient stones, and I could see men in suits and women in dresses gathered in one of the main thoroughfares. I went out to watch, afraid I would miss the spectacle. I needn't have worried, as a parade of parties would arrive throughout the day.

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