Some more photos of the long colourful day.

At 7am I was sweating already,and it turned out to be such a long hot day. This is me in the fruit procession, that's the first big thing that happens. My mother in law gave me the fabric for that top, its the sort of thing that people wear to weddings here.




I think Khmer wedding cakes are more for looking at than eating! Note the cans of silly string all lined up ready for use. I've been told cake cutting in a fairly new thing in Khmer weddings.

Guess what we did on the weekend?

Huge temporary outdoor kitchen...


As well as coconuts, can you see what else is in the tree?


...huge speakers and colourful tent set up near the house...



Kimsoeun borrowed a friend's camera so he could take photos at this wedding in Kandal province. We stayed over on Friday night so we could be there at 6.30am for the start. We got back to Phnom Penh around 10pm- it was a very long day!

sparkle, noise, food

Some sparkle......

...a big tent...

..some changes of clothes...

...some noise...

...and some food.

When there are too many empty cans on the table, just start throwing the rubbish on the floor.


There are heaps of weddings on these days!

Noise

Wedding marquees are often set up on a road, as I mentioned before. The other Sunday there was one right outside our church! We had to walk through someone's wedding to get to church.

The wedding caters set up their kitchen on the road near by too. The photo below I took from inside church- you can see how close the speakers were to us. So noisy!

More photos from this on Kronicle Clicks (ask me for password).(album 2009-03 church/wedding)