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Originally Posted by Faidenk
A Khmer Wedding Pt 2
I called my taxi and off we went. The dinner was held at the the Mondial Center, a popular venue for weddings. I reckoned there must be 50 tables or more in the banquet hall. Cambodian wedding banquets are usually held at home, with the reception and banquet under a rented tent outside the house with all the trims. The blessings of the couple by the monks, parents and relatives take up 3 days. But I guess this newly-wed couple can afford the extra expenditure by having it here.
And that, I think, is how a typical Phnom Penh wedding banquet is like.
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Hi faidenk
Nice write up of a typical cambodian wedding. I was also invited to one a few weeks back before CNY and quite similar situation as you were in but did not attend due to work commitments. But mine was a bit different, as the girl is young and not married and the parents were the one invited me to their relative wedding. Well at least now I know what to expect from it...
But I made up for it for not attending the wedding by having 3 days of lunch over at her place during CNY.
This period from November onwards are plenty of wedding because the weather is fine and not much rain. Once in a while in the morning you will get blarring music and chanting from the monks for wedding ceremony and in the nite the dinner with plently of blarring music. Wa I did not know the last wedding hold near my place, the married couple got ripped off by ali baba of their ang pows after the guard that was hired to guard the ang pows got drunk also...
Keep up the updates, nice to know the cambodian customs.
c.c.4u