The Ayatollahs are getting smart giving some leeway to the young people.
Dogs, Deepak Chopra, Instagram weddings and other signs of change among Iran's middle class
Shehrzad Bolandkish and her new husband, Sarmad Kodeiri, dance the first dance at their Western-inspired wedding party held outside Tehran. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Shashank Bengali and Ramin Mostaghim
The groom wore a navy blue tuxedo, the bride a custom-made gown with a fish-scale pattern inspired by pictures she found on Instagram.
Waiters passed around French tarts as guests crowded a dance floor pulsating under strobe lights. When the DJ played “Gangnam Style,” a cheer went up from the young women in tight dresses, salon-styled hair falling down their bare shoulders.
The wedding reception was like so many — except that it took place in Tehran, the capital of an Islamic republic whose ruling clerics take a dim view of such displays of skin and secular, Western-oriented tastes.
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Dogs, Deepak Chopra, Instagram weddings and other signs of change among Iran's middle class
Shehrzad Bolandkish and her new husband, Sarmad Kodeiri, dance the first dance at their Western-inspired wedding party held outside Tehran. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Shashank Bengali and Ramin Mostaghim
The groom wore a navy blue tuxedo, the bride a custom-made gown with a fish-scale pattern inspired by pictures she found on Instagram.
Waiters passed around French tarts as guests crowded a dance floor pulsating under strobe lights. When the DJ played “Gangnam Style,” a cheer went up from the young women in tight dresses, salon-styled hair falling down their bare shoulders.
The wedding reception was like so many — except that it took place in Tehran, the capital of an Islamic republic whose ruling clerics take a dim view of such displays of skin and secular, Western-oriented tastes.
Continue reading at:
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-culture-snap-story.html
