Bride kills herself after groom’s family criticised her ‘revealing’ and ‘provocative’ wedding dress
A bride killed herself after her husband’s family criticised her wedding dress as being ‘too revealing’ and ‘provocative’.
Lyaman Mammadli, 19, was accused of looking ‘naked’ on her big day because her shoulders were left uncovered.
Her father Murad Bayramov said she had been distraught by the criticism and soon afterwards took her own life in the garden of her parents’ family home in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan.
‘My daughter’s groom and his parents caused a fight in my home because of her wedding dress,’ he said.
‘My daughter couldn’t bear it and took her own life.’
He strongly denied media reports that his daughter may have felt pressured into a wedding with an older man, Elnur Mamedli, 33.
‘After the celebration, Elnur came to our home with his parents and caused a big argument,’ said the father.
‘They said: “What a disgrace. How could you let your daughter wear such a shameful, revealing wedding dress?”‘
Lyaman Mammadli, 19, was accused of looking ‘naked’ on her big day because her shoulders were left uncovered
Her father strongly denied media reports that his daughter may have felt pressured into a wedding with an older man, Elnur Mamedli, 33
Her father Murad Bayramov said she had been distraught by the criticism and soon afterwards took her own life in the garden of her parents’ family home in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan
‘We replied that it was a normal gown – the kind many brides wear. But they wouldn’t calm down and kept arguing.
‘The dispute continued the next day,’ he said.
The husband’s parents accused her of ‘disgracing their son and family’.
The bereaved father said: ‘My daughter couldn’t endure it. In her distress and emotional turmoil, she ended her life.’
Her new husband came to the funeral but the distraught father said he ‘refused to let them stay’ and ‘kicked them out’.
Police are now investigating whether to launch a criminal case over the ‘bullying’ of the bride before her tragic death.
It comes just a week after an advisor to Iran’s Ayatollah who helped organise a crackdown on anti-hijab protestors sparked outcry in Iran after letting his daughter marry in a ‘revealing’ dress.
Footage circulating on social media showed Ali Shamkhani, a top advisor to Iran’s supreme leader and a member of the Expediency Council, escorting his daughter, Fatemeh, into a wedding hall at Tehran’s luxury Espinas Palace Hotel.
The bride wore a strapless white dress with a low neckline.
The Western-style wedding sparked anger on Iranian social media, with many accusing Shamkhani of hypocrisy, considering the mandatory hijab and modesty laws that have restricted women’s dress for decades.
Shamkhani, a long-time ally of Ali Khamenei, previously served as the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the body responsible for the regime’s national security, between 2013 and 2023.
He was in the position when the government organised a brutal crackdown on the protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, who died in police custody in 2022 after being arrested for allegedly violating rules requiring women to wear the headscarf.
