22-year-old Sara Baluch’s and 24-year-old Mohammad Sharifi had planned their wedding but the groom to be, Mohammad got shot dead by a man he was selling an Xbox console to.
On the planned wedding day, Sara slipped into her ivory chiffon wedding dress she’d picked out to wear at the altar and headed to the cemetery where the love of her life was laid to rest outside Nashville, Tennessee.
Sara sobbed through her tulle veil as she knelt in the grass damp from thunderstorms the day before surrounded by loved ones who took turns reciting prayers and reading from the Quran.
Sara said as tears streamed down her face; “We were supposed to be together. I’m sorry, Mohammad. I’m so sorry. So sorry. As they prepared to leave Sara’s mother, Sona, replaced her daughter’s white wedding veil with a black one.