Saturday, February 14, 2009

Cambodia holds photo show to highlight wedding culture

A Cambodian wedding party on the causeway to Angkor Wat.
(Photo: http://www.travelingtiger.com/travelingtiger/angkor/angkorwat.htm)

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and the French Center of Culture were holding a week-long photo show to highlight wedding culture, said Khmer-language newspaper the Rasmei Kampuchea on Saturday.

Altogether 400 out of 1,000 submitted photos were posted at the center to feature traditional wedding ceremonies of different nationalities.

"The show is meaningful for humanity and it allows us to understand other traditions and cultures in wedding days," Hem Chem, Cambodia Minister of Culture and Fine Arts, was quoted as saying.

Kau Borin, representative of the show, said that the photos were sent from all over the world.

The exhibition started earlier this week and is expected to conclude on Sunday.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The women look great, but not the men. We have our own Khmer wedding dress and bette, than this one.

Anonymous said...

Right,men attires are cloned from Europe.It is just like royalties who claimed to be Khmers but at home aa chha:kaer speak Siam, Fraing Yuon

Anonymous said...

believe or not, khmer wedding has a historical tie to the so-called 'devatas' or 'apsara' 'mysterious women' culture found on the walls of angkor wat. it is deeply rooted in our khmer culture, believe to start from the beginning of the khmer nation between the union of the khmer naga queen and a foreign prince from india. thus, the birth of this cultural symbol.