With the exception of a few digressions into past characters - including a lovely, if sad, story about Amir trying and failing to rescue a hunting hawk - this manga is pretty much entirely the wedding of Laila and Leily and their respective husbands. It's far less exciting for the girls than they expect, as their role is pretty much sitting quietly (and covered, in stifling heat) while everyone else celebrates, but they're able to get their new husbands to sneak them food, and the machinations of the four of them trying to stave off the boredom and various difficulties of a traditional wedding is entertaining.

More interesting, however - and I say this every time! - is the cultural detail portrayed by both the stories and the really excellent drawing. I don't think I've commented on the art in this series before, but it's enormously detailed and enormously impressive. Anyway, the standout section here, I think - and I'm saying this as a vegetarian - is the chapter on butchering sheep for the wedding feast. It's really interesting, and despite the gory subject matter I really appreciate how the author focuses on details of domestic life that other books might just skip over as uninteresting. It's really not.