Kampung Wedding

Fifteen hundred people are a lot to cook for. They came to honour the Kampung (village) wedding of Fadir Bin Kasim and Mazleen Binti Abdullah. The celebrations extended over three days, the culmination of weeks of planning and work for a traditional Malay wedding.

 
 Resplendent in a red and gold outfit, Fadir, the groom and his supporters drove to the home of Mazleen. Nervously waiting for him in a magnificent matching red dress she wore a high gold headdress weighing several kilograms. This was the beginning of the first day of ceremonies. In the afternoon, after a wedding lunch, the couple dressed in white went to the mosque for the religious blessings and legal formalities.

 
Hundreds of Fadir’s, family and friends were welcomed to eat at Mazleen parent’s house on the second day. Silver was theme. Mazleen wore a traditional Malay white dress with a delicate layer of black lace which shone like silver. Over white shirt and trousers Fadir had a silver and black sarong with a Kiri tucked in the waistband. It’s the traditional and ceremonial Malay dagger of self defence with wavy steel blade. His silver and black turban sported a large golden badge. They made a lovely couple. Imaginative dishes of prawns, spicy fish, chicken and beef were offered to the appreciative guests. Traditionally the wedding cake has a sponge base with seven different sweet muffins on tall pillars.   Have a look at the pictures.   

 
On the third day Fadir and Mazleen in their lime green outfits led her family and friends to Fadir’s house.   Another change of clothes into the western type wedding dress and black suit preceded the cutting of a two tier western style cake.  Even in weddings there is a fusion of cultures and a harmonising of traditions.

 
Fadir’s dad and his brother, our friend Amey, prepared over three hundred chickens, a whole ox, huge quantities of fish and supporting vegetables and rice. They hired gigantic pots and serving dishes and hundreds of chairs. It was splendid and the food was marvellous, the best beef rendang we’d tasted anywhere in South East Asia.
  
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