Expected cost of a wedding - Phnom Penh, Cambodia in December

Bitte_Kein_Lexus · Post by **Bitte_Kein_Lexus** » Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:40 pm

If you're married abroad and living abroad, why would you even bother with a Cambodian wedding? Only makes sense if you have assets here and/or children. Or maybe want to please the family and friends by having a ceremony here people can attend?

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:44 pm

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:40 pm If you're married abroad and living abroad, why would you even bother with a Cambodian wedding? Only makes sense if you have assets here and/or children. Or maybe want to please the family and friends by having a ceremony here people can attend?

YEP face for the family and
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Khmers all love a good, noisy party

philip.smith · Post by **philip.smith** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:18 am

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:40 pm If you're married abroad and living abroad, why would you even bother with a Cambodian wedding? Only makes sense if you have assets here and/or children. Or maybe want to please the family and friends by having a ceremony here people can attend?

The latter. Figure make wife and the family happy / dress up like a clothes horse for 2 days.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus · Post by **Bitte_Kein_Lexus** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:42 am

Fair enough. Let us know how it goes.

Kammekor · Post by **Kammekor** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:01 am

PSD-Kiwi wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 11:29 am
philip.smith wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:04 am If we do make it an official marriage, that is do the paperwork, shouldn't be any issues?
You can't, because you're already legally married. One of the requirements is that you both provide a certificate of no impediment/single status, which you will not be able to.

True. Missed this step is my reasoning, Cambodian permission to marry is out of the question for the two of you OP.

You can either ask permission from the authorities with your foreign marriage certificate, or call it a come back party or something.

philip.smith · Post by **philip.smith** » Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:36 pm

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:42 am Fair enough. Let us know how it goes.

Price wasn't too bad.

We managed to have the first day (ceremony at home, elders, monks, wise man, piss up) at home just fine and the second day

Second day (venue at a wedding hall, ceremonies, parade, cake, elders, pass the candle, piss up) also without a hitch.

Obviously, not recognised here but nothing we can do about it now.

pczz · Post by **pczz** » Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:54 pm

philip.smith wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:36 pm
Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:42 am Fair enough. Let us know how it goes.
Price wasn't too bad.

We managed to have the first day (ceremony at home, elders, monks, wise man, piss up) at home just fine and the second day

Second day (venue at a wedding hall, ceremonies, parade, cake, elders, pass the candle, piss up) also without a hitch.

Obviously, not recognised here but nothing we can do about it now.

As you are already legall married abroad you may be able to have your marriage certified and approved. I believe you have to have had a good reason to marry abroad, like your missus was already an expat. Requires a visit to the ministry of foreign affairs. Question is how did you manage to get married abroad? in most places you need a certificate of no impediment for your wife, and the governemtn here just will not issue one unless their are exceptional circumstances. I know only 2 countries in Europe where you can legally be married without it. Even singapore say they need it so that oprtions is closed. Went through this lark for a friend 2 years ago.

philip.smith · Post by **philip.smith** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 12:56 am

Signature declaration is all that is required in New Zealand https://www.govt.nz/browse/family-and-w ... e-licence/ hard to say her status since we left Cambodia last year to live in NZ so not an expat already, although it may come down to the definition and interpretations.

BR549 · Post by **BR549** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:18 am

I see street weddings all the time.
Earlier this year when I was still living in Kampot there were several every week...
I see them in my neighborhood in Siem Reap all the time..
Back in Kampong Cham I went to 3 dirt road weddings and my lady and I had a ceremony in her house with her Uncles and all the village elders doing the ceremony. It was beautiful. She had never married and was 32 at the time.
Her father had passed and he was a big man at the temple and her uncles still are. I realized this at Pchum Ben when they were seated next to the head Monks.
I was Chef in the USA for 25 years and did around 500 wedding receptions in my career. The keeping up with the Jones' fever is everywhere.
The house party and funeral events really blow my mind.

pczz · Post by **pczz** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 8:20 am

BR549 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:18 am I see street weddings all the time.
Earlier this year when I was still living in Kampot there were several every week...
I see them in my neighborhood in Siem Reap all the time..
Back in Kampong Cham I went to 3 dirt road weddings and my lady and I had a ceremony in her house with her Uncles and all the village elders doing the ceremony. It was beautiful. She had never married and was 32 at the time.
Her father had passed and he was a big man at the temple and her uncles still are. I realized this at Pchum Ben when they were seated next to the head Monks.
I was Chef in the USA for 25 years and did around 500 wedding receptions in my career. The keeping up with the Jones' fever is everywhere.
The house party and funeral events really blow my mind.

Think you got lucky. It is ilegal to have the wedding ceremony in the village with a foreign man unles you have the paperwork from the ministry. they have been clamping down on this and there were reportsof th police turning up and cancelling theparty. Thinks aint what they used to be. When i went for a friend in 2018 i was told by the ministry that the marriage could only be validated in Cambodia if the Cambodian was working abroad and could not return for a wedding or was born abroad and had no come back to Cambodia. in either case the bride is supposed to make application through the nearest Cambodian Embassy before getting married. As always some things can be 'flexible".

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