One couple did book their 25th wedding anniversary celebration in a village, but split up before the big day.

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Washburn is turning the story to a book about golf in China, having followed Zhou from the courses to his wedding and even his remote home village.

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"An Armenian Sketchbook" (New York Review Books) offers a clear-eyed, loose-limbed account of two months spent making friends, traveling to a remote village to attend a wedding and feasting on hot peppers and Cognac.

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Azhar Sheikh Azhar, a 32-year-old farmer with an eight-acre property in Dahegaon Village, India, canceled plans for a lavish wedding with gifts of gold jewelry for his niece this year.

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In the northeastern Bosnian village of Zivinice, the walls of Edina Bukvic's wedding dress rental shop are festooned with frilly white lace and shiny satin gowns.

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Around this time, Nasir travelled to his ancestral village, Deh Afghanan, about twenty-five miles west of Kabul, for his wedding day.

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