I am currently staying in a hotel that is popular for wedding parties. What this means is around 11 PM, a long train of cars rolls past the hotel blaring their horns as loud as possible. Kids in the car caravan are playing drums, those not drumming are throwing firecrackers and those not throwing firecrackers are lighting them for the kids with better arms. It's quite a festival.
Car decoration is a must for your Yemen wedding. I wish I had a picture but I don't so I'll try to describe it. Cars are bedazzled with window frosting and ribbon. A standard look is a small bow on top of the car with ribbons splaying out from it reaching various edges of the hood like a fan. The windows are frosted with white and pink paint and unfortunate stencils are responsible for floods of anatomically incorrect hearts spilling over from window to window. Often only a half the windshield is left clear for the driver to see.
Apparently, the month before Ramadan is the big wedding season as the fast during Ramadan calls Muslims to abstain from food, drink, and intercourse. I wonder if that means there's a month lull for births in Yemeni hospitals.
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