We went to our first Khmer Wedding on Thursday the 10th of December. Here is the bride and groom by the wedding cake. They have on their 3rd outfit of the night. It is a tradition that you wear three different outfits for the evening. All traditional attire. The brides clothes are not necessarily that modest. This couple are active in the Church and hers are not too bad. They are the Gauts (not right spelling but it is how they say it). 
He is a returned missionary from here in Cambodia. However, we never got to work with him. He is a great asset to the church here and speaks excellent English which will help him get a good job. They will go to the Hong Kong Temple sometime this year. She has never been yet.
We are with some members of the bride's branch. Everyone has these fancy blouses they dress up with, but the men just wear casual shirts while the women are dressed to the nines, so to speak! They serve you maybe 7 courses from Chicken strips, to duck, fish, and sour soup, and fried rice. We ate anything that looked safe!
This is a close up of the members of the Bride's branch. They are all active and very sweet ladies. The sister in the orange kept patting me and putting her head on my shoulder.
Here is the bride and groom! The reception was held in a field across from the home of the Bride. The Elder's helped take out all the weeds for Elder Gaut as he is still called here. They did it for their service. So they were invited and they ate in the Bride's home to keep them away from the formal wedding because of some immodest dress and beer that is drunken by non-members. Aren't the bride and groom beautiful in their Cambodian Dress?
These are the missionaries that helped clear the land. Elder Gaut said I put them in a safe place. But then where did all the girls go to change into their three outfits? In the Bride's home which is where the missionaries were! But they did well. They are great missionaries. Elder Isabell on the left, Elders Stevens, Chheum, and Schiefer. Elder Isabell's Dad was a missionary that I served with in Uruguary. We worked together in Fray Bentos. A Small world as the expression goes.
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