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Mahmuda Khatun, 28, stabbed Mohammed Amin Miah through the heart on his 28th birthday in August last year.
Opticians assistant Khatun, who regularly wore Western clothes, wanted to hide her identity from neighbours and CCTV cameras.
Old Bailey judge Brian Barker jailed her for life and told her: "In my view, it was wicked."
He rejected claims that Khatun had been put under pressure to marry Mr Miah.
Judge Barker told Khatun: "You went into this with your eyes open."
Khatun, an optician's shop assistant, of Bow, east London, was found guilty of murder.
The judge said her first arranged marriage had failed and she enjoyed a freer life in her own flat before returning to her family.
"It may be that Amin turned out to be a disappointment to you," he said.
Kim Hollis, QC, defending, said: "She was caught between two worlds with tragic consequences.
"She wanted the type of life which other women can have in the United Kingdom."
Khatun had been born in Bangladesh and came to Britain with her family when she was six.
Crispin Aylett QC, prosecuting, said she had hidden a knife in her burka disguise when she arrived at the marital home in Bethnal Green, east London.
He said: "As he opened the door to her, he must have seen his bride in a burka, not clothing she usually wore, before she plunged the knife into his heart.
"Thereafter, the defendant set about creating a smokescreen that was designed to put her beyond suspicion."
Khatun initially said that on the night of the murder she had been locked out of the flat and looked through the letterbox to see blood on the walls in the hallway.
But mobile phone records proved her wrong.
When aged 20 Khatun had undergone an arranged marriage in 2002 but this lasted only eight months.
In the fortnight before her marriage to Mr Miah detectives discovered there were 166 calls, texts or missed calls - an average of ten a day between Khatun and her lover Hussain.
These were often late at night as they worked together during the day and they were even calling each other on her wedding day and honeymoon.
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