Amira has to be a former tengri since there's no way she'd be able to marry into a Muslim family if she was one@SpamJoe : Seconded. They're blatantly slims (despite the apparent lack of a mosque... but maybe that sort of thing doesn't occur in rural villages). Frankly those two rabble-rousing girls are too good for this nonsense. But yeah... you can just sorta tell... the same way you can tell Amira is Tengrist by her comment about the hawks in that recent chapter. I think the other villagers might be Sufi slims... but I'm not 100% sure.
We were well taken care of at my wedding. They set aside a plate of food for me and my husband and made us sit and eat after we'd shaken hands at the reception. I didn't really feel like eating 'cause I was nervous about everything, but I did since I knew I needed the energy for the rest of the reception."You don't keep score." is a wise way to look at it, IMO. After all. The reward is how happy the girls are on their own wedding day.
....seems like somehow no matter the culture brides wind up cramped from sitting still for the guests and hungry as hell. Ive heard of (american) couples who wind up ordering pizza in their hotel room afterwards.