The very next day, Nuaimat was pulled out of bed by Aunt Qadar, Aunt Yusrah and three Aunties from the Oman family, namely Aunt Diya, Aunt Hajar and Aunt Taibah, they more like dragged her because she wanted to sleep,
they pulled Nuaimat to a secluded room in red and gold and begun to rub all sort of traditional skin cleansing things on her,
Wherelse Zaid and the whole men of the household were dressed up and ready to go to the central mosque in Muscat for the knot tieing as islam prevails,
Zaid the groom wore white, a white knee lenght pure cotton yard and a long sleeve top, then a long white pants of the same material, with pure silver round bottons on and pure silver cuff links on the shirt,
Then a black open toe shoe, then a white and golden embroidered long cloak which has short sleeves then a typical masculine Arab heardress,
It was a sunny day and a happy day for everyone, Nuaimat's dad and his own guest arrived at the mosque the same time with the Zaid and co, the Omani king and the Qatari king met up with Nuaimat's father and together the three first step into the mosque, then other kings who were invited followed suit, then princes and honourable guest followed, then Zaid and his own agemates, entered, and then the Islamic rites begun.
Back at home Nuaimat was now in the room and now dressed up in a cream long fitted gown with fish tail, of lace material, with golden embroidery on the sleeves, chest, and the edge of the lace,
Now in the room were Zohra, Maha, Lawisa, Nora, Sabira, laila, Sophia, Halooma, Mufeeda, Jameela, Jameena, lateefa, Khalisa, Zubaida, Anna, Laila, Tasneem, Lateefa, Sheena , Abla ,Sajeedah , Husna, Rufaida, Nora, Haifa, Ameerah, Aisha,
They were all dressed majestically in different coloured lace,
Nuaimat was seated in a two seater golden sofa, her face was in a light make-up, her hair was stretched and has a side long bang, and the tip of the hair was heavly curled to be shoulder lenght, gold earings, gold bangles and a cream heeled platform peeptoe shoe with gold pearls on it,
She sat as series of pictures were taken of her and sometimes she is joined by some, while some talk around,
"Oh my God, done" shouted Jameena after making a call, all eyes turned to her,
"Ladies, i give you MRS Zaid Zakkariya Zayman" she said dramatically pointing to Nuaimat, Nuaimat sighed with a sigh and Zohra hugged her, then the music in the room came up, everyone begun to dance except for Nuaimat just watch with smiles,
Then Neehal, Khairiya, and Fatima came in, the three hugged Nuaimat congratulating her, "you look beautiful" they chorused, Nuaimat giggled and with that they took series of pictures and then set out,
Some minutes later Aunt Faduwah came in, "get ready you all, they will soon be here" she said with a serious face and went out,
As the palace tradition, after the conjual bliss the couple will meet and come out to the hall, there other wedding rituals will be done, traditionally,
"Zohra and Anna helped Nuaimat into her hooded cream and gold cloak which was sleeves and has an open front,
"They are back" the whole palace shook with the roar, almost everyone, went towards the windows to have a good view of the men, more like to see the groom,
Zaid came out of one of the black rolls Royce ghost, everyone marvelled at him, and je even wore a sunglass,
"Aima, your boyfriend is everything" said Sophia dreamily,
"Um excuse me, my husband" said Nuaimat, some of them giggled at the fact,
And ten minutes later, Aunt Yusrah and Nuaimat's step mum came in and right behind them was Zaid, without out the sunglasses and the headdress, on coming his eyes landed on Nuaimat who was on her feet and facing the long mirror, he smiled at her and she returned the smile through the mirror
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Nu'aimat (COMPLETED)
RomanceA Nigerian story of a teenager who found herself impregnated by her best friend, disowned by her father and loved by some others, Follow the life and story of Nuaimat and see how a daughter of low class engineer and an outcast turns out to meet one...