19 September 2005

Wedding day – Mongolian words:　хурим　(khurim）

Posted by khuushuur under: mongolia .

хурим　(khurim） means wedding but also just feast. Гэрлэх ёслол (gerlekh yoslol) is a more general word for a marriage. Anyway, today there was a lot of weddings and feasts, as it was an auspicious day in the Buddhist calendar: Baljinnyam and Dashnyam coincide only once a year and it is traditionally the very best day to get married. From the early morning until late at night couples and their families were lining up for marriage ceremonies at the Wedding Palace. Odriin Sonin reports that from 2.00h in the morning until 21.00h a total of 108 couples got married in ceremonies of about 20 minutes (although the math of that doesn’t really seem to work out).

UPDATE: See more images of one the wedded couples on this day: Roeland an Suvdaa, in their Suvdland

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