In Cambodia, ceremony starts from the night before or day before till late night. Wasn't too sure whether it's a 2 day ceremony or 1 full day ceremony. In M'sia, the ceremony usually take place at the guy side. Unlike M'sia, Cambodian style is having the ceremony in the girl side.
Upon from the long day, it is a norm for the bride and groom to change at least 7-8 outfit for the wedding. Imagine only for the reception, they changed at least 3 outfit already. Not only that, the thing that really impress me was in M'sia, we only change the outfit. But here in Cambodia, the hair and make-up change TOGETHER as well! Meaning it's a whole new look all together... I wonder how they do it??
Speaking about the tradition wedding, when we arrived at Phonm Penh, they are in the ceremony where it being blessed by the elderly. And yes, my mom and I don't understand a single thing because it was in their language. All we know were the elderly were having some play thingy and from the gestures, it's somehow funny =)
In Cambodia, it's a norm to have arch before the tent and big picture poster or banner at the entrance. Interesting...
Then, the other relative will blessed them as well. Something different from here, the blessing has to be done in pairs and we were required to spray some sort of mist on their head-hair and act like cutting their hair. hmm...
Then, bride and groom changed into another outfit and some prayers done.
Right after that, we had another form of blessing. Check out the items display for the blessing.
The couple seated on floor with and the relative surrounded them in circle.
Then we have another round of speech cum blessing, followed by a red string tie-ing event where guests will tied red string on the bride or groom hand. It ended with the guest throwing flower petals on them.
During the ceremony, we have live music played by this group of musician throughout... Good skills~~
Around 5pm in the evening, the dinner started. Another different culture here is as long as your table is filled with 10 people, dishes will be served and you can dine. Unlike Cambodia, we at M'sia has to wait for all the guests to arrive before starting the ceremony.
The next day morning, couple is required to go to the nearest temple, or in their terms 'pagoda', to ask for blessing and to cut off the red string tied yesterday. So ya, something to add into my knowledge...