Uzbek singers are crooning their unhappiness at an official law limiting the number of performers at weddings -- part of new regulations aimed at curbing big spending at the often mammoth nuptial ...

When the Uzbek government recently eased its coronavirus restrictions and allowed wedding parties to be held -- though for just 30 people -- thousands of couples rushed to the registry offices for ...

Even two days after the wedding, Vakhobiddin Radjabaliyev’s family was still busy clearing away the detritus of the party. His freshly acquired daughter-in-law, Nilufar, busily swept the courtyard at ...

KOMOROVO, Tajikistan -- Night was falling across the Ferghana Valley in northern Tajikistan, and when the sun rose again 27-year-old Anvar Aliev was due to be married. Anvar had seen his wife-to-be ...