Jeff & the lovely Channy Rasmussen
this is one of the ceremonies were family and friends bless you with money just after you were married
Instead of doing the candle ceremony we did a mixing of sand. something that won' t melt. Thanks Jon and Christina for the idea :)
These are the cakes that my mom brought all the way from the states!! she is truly amazing!
This is also the money blessing ceremony. its actually "jawng die" which means knotting hands
Me and my beautiful bride just after the wedding
This is the two families that were joined
The pastor after marrying us actually forgot to say "now you may kiss the bride" I of course quickly reminded him. :)
This is a pic of the fruit carrying ceremony. This is a Khemi tradition where the guy and his friends carry a lot of fruit over to the brides fathers house. traditional you are suppose to walk from your house to theirs but now that everyone lives so far apart that is not done.
This is everyone in the two families
these are our three flower girls
Our first dance. the song was a wonderful country tune sung by one of the pastors
We did a foot washing, which is also a khemi tradition. but in khemi tradition the girl is the only one who washes the feet. we of course added in that i would wash her feet as well.
The garter belt ceremony!! this was such a shocker to the cambodians they had never seen anything like this before.
near the end of the night.... we were both very exhausted from all the ceremonies from morning until late night.
This is the beging of the fruit carrying ceremony that i mentioned earlier
If you have noticed Channy has had like 6 different dresses throughout the day. this is also a Khemi tradition. i didnt really like this one though. it seemed like she was constantly changing and didn't get to enjoy the parties.
The grooms men and brides maids
This is my bride coming down the aisle. from an American perspective the wedding would have seemed very disorganized and cluttered. but for a Cambodian it was beautiful.
