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NEW YEAR'S EVE AND A ROYAL WEDDING
I'm certainly living a life of extremes. About a week before New Year's eve I received a call from Hoknym, the manager of the photography and production company I do some work for, informing me that I was going to get the opportunity to go inside the royal palace. The King's niece was getting married and I'd been chosen to photograph the wedding. WOW it was really an amazing experience and I felt honoured to be chosen.
The bride was Her Royal Highness, Princess Rattana Devi and she was marrying a French Military Officer, Ansiau LaPlaneta. The wedding ceremony was a very traditional Cambodian affair which took place early in the morning at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh and was attended by members of the Royal Family, the Prime Minister and all the other top ranking government officials, as well as guests from all over the world. After the ceremony which lasted around three hours, everyone moved over to the Royal Throne Room where the Bride and Groom received a blessing from the King.
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Photo 1. The wedding ceremony was rich in Cambodian traditions and customs.
Photo 2. Family photographs with the King.
Photo 3. The wedding clothes were quite magnificent.
Photo 4. Her Royal Highness toasting with the Prime Minister and her Father.
Photo 5. My trusty assistant, Chun, and myself at the end of the evening (exhausted!).
The reception took place in the evening at the residence of the Bride's parents. It was attended by about 800 guests and they were entertained throughout the evening by traditional Cambodian musicians, singers and dancers. There was a fireworks display which was supposed to occur at midnight but due to impending rain the fireworks went off at 11.00 pm. It was a very magnificent and beautiful occasion.
Her Royal Highness and Mr LaPlaneta also gave me permission to sell the photos to the media. To that end I made contact with a media agency in France and subsequently we have 6 pages of photos in the current issue of Point de Vue magazine! Very exciting!
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