Steemian wedding (part-1)

in #photography7 years ago (edited)

My wedding took place last month, on the 6th of July 2017.

Cambodia is known as a low income country, but Cambodian wedding is known as one of the most expensive one. Let say that a normal wedding in Cambodia spend more than 10k USD.

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Drag you back a little bit backward before my wedding. Actually I have known my wife since last two years, when I jointed my friend wedding in her homeland. She was a bridesmaid in the wedding. I asked to my friend about her. He told me that she is still in high-school, it would take another year for her to finish high-school. When I know that she is still too young, I just cannot go further than that; and keep asking my friend from time to time how has she been.

After that a few month, I went to do research in La Rochelle, France for almost 1 year and when I got back, I also have a relationship with someone immediately, but the relationship was not last that long. Then in the mid of April 2017, my friend who is the cousin-in-law of my wife; he came to me and asking me about a book that I translated. When he came to me, it remind me about my wife, so I asked him about her. He told me that she finished her high-school, but she has not come to continue her bachelor in Phnom Penh yet; she was helping his wife selling books in the local market there. At the same time, she was studying Korean preparing for an exam to be a laborer to Korea in the late of June. I asked my friend for her facebook account, she didn't accepted my account at first; she thought that I am a foreigner; until my friend told her about me; and then we become friend of facebook.

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A photo taken when my parents went to see her in her hometown

We started to chat on facebook, I told her that I got crush on her since last two years. When we get a little bit close; I ask if it is possible for me to court her, as I am 10 years old older than her. She didn't reject, but she said that she has never seen me in person so it is quite difficult for her to say yes. Actually, I planned to visit her in the late of May, since I would have a trip to France for 2 weeks; but since soon she would take a Korean exam to go to Korea as a laborer; so I changed my mind and came to meet her immediately in a weekend of April 2017. I went to meet her, her family, her grand-mum and her relatives. We went to visit a durian farm of her aunt and also to have dinner together with her cousins in her hometown.

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After getting back from her hometown, I asked her again, if I am acceptable for her; and she replied to me YES :D Just following that 1 week; I dragged my parents and siblings to come to see her and her family in her hometown. My parents didn't want to come, because I got to know my wife really quick and we haven't learn from each other that much; but finally my negotiation skill could lobby them to come. During the meet, my parents asked for her birth-date, so that they can check with the horoscope if our birth-date are match. It is quite common for Cambodian people to check the birth-date if it is match or not before getting married. And why I need to rush like that? Of course yes, she is beautiful; but there are more things beside that. And for many Cambodian family, they don't allow their daughters to have a boyfriend or any strong relationship until engagement or married; it was another reason that I was rush to drag my parents to see her and prepare for an engagement.

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Let wait and see the following stories of my wedding! It is quite interesting and the way to get to the wedding was short, just less than 2 months; but there were many obstacles in between ;)

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