This is an example of the times when you get some random, yet interesting moment in a wedding.
ONE OF THE RANDOM YET INTERESTING MOMENTS IN WEDDING: Boy seemed tired after long day at a Malay wedding ceremony.
This shot was taken at a Malay wedding I attended earlier this year. I believed this ceremony is known as Majlis Bersanding, or Enthronement Ceremony. Here is the write up quote from Wikipedia:
The actual wedding day is the Bersanding. This literally means the “sitting together of the bride and bridegroom on the bridal couch”. Known as the Pelamin, this couch is the centrepiece of the whole ceremony, and two pelamins are required – one in the bride’s house and the other in the bridegroom’s. As the Bersanding ceremony customarily takes place in the afternoon, the bridegroom entertains guests at his own house in the morning. The bersanding (enthronement) ceremony begins with the groom’s procession with friends, relatives, musicians and people waving bunga manggar (palm blossom) to meet the bride. Often various good-humoured attempts are made to waylay or stop the groom from getting to the bride. The main part of the bersanding involves the seating of the bridal couple on a dais and sprinkling them with yellow rice and scented water by family members, relatives and guests as a sign of blessing. Each guest will receive a bunga telur (egg flower), a decorated egg with a fabric flower, as a sign of fertility. The couple are considered royalty for the day, and so various royal customs are performed for them, including musicians playing court music and ‘bodyguards’ performing a display of Silat (traditional Malay martial arts).
(Source: Wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_wedding)
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