Their wedding included a traditional Islamic nikkah ceremony followed by a banquet. This was the Shah’s 3rd wedding, and the match was orchestrated by his 19-year-old daughter, Princess Shahnaz. The young Queen was studying architecture in Paris in 1959 when she was introduced to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi at an embassy reception, before the couple’s engagement was announced on 1 December and they were married three weeks later.
