The Wedding Shoes

The Wedding Shoes

The

Sufiya Ahmed

School rivals, Farah and Naz, have never got along. Now their siblings are getting married and a traditional game played at weddings becomes a war!

The two girls use whatever and whoever they can to outwit the other with iincreasingly sneaky moves and tactics.

How far will they go to win?!

Wedding Shoes

F9 – 115 WPM

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Contents You’re invited! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 The wedding hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Meet the families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Chapter 1 The wedding hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 2 The Nikaah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Wedding outfits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Chapter 3 The favours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chapter 4 The chain train . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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Chapter 5 The cake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Chapter 6 She who wins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 The wedding photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Old family wedding photos . . . . . . . . . . .80 Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82 The wedding feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84 About the author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 About the illustrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Book chat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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You’re invited!

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Mr Ashraf Khan and Mrs Zahra Khan request the pleasure of YOU to the occasion of the Nikaah ceremony and wedding reception of their beloved daughter ANISA to Sajid Son of Mr Faiz Hussain and Mrs Aaliyah Hussain on 22nd July at the Wedding Hall.

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The wedding hall guest tables

gift table cake table

stage

sheet

red carpet

thrones

dance floor

DJ set up

guest tables

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stairs leading to toilets

main entrance

reception area

bridal room

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Meet the families Khan family tree

Hanif

Ashraf

Zahra

Anisa

Farah

Fatima

Zoya

Sana

Salman

Rehan

Ahsan

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Hussain family tree

Humera

Faiz

Sajid

Aaliyah

Naz

Bashir (died)

Afshan

Tahir

Millie

Umar

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Chapter 1 The wedding hall Farah peeped her head around the door.

“It’s me,” she said, slipping into the bridal room in the hall where the wedding was taking place.

The room looked like a train had sped through it at top speed. Every surface seemed to be scattered with make-up and hair-styling equipment.

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