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    • Caught Red-Handed

    • Caught Red-Handed

    • Celebrations; Weddings; Host families; Host community friends

    • Georgian weddings are often attended by 200+ guests and last for two days. This requires neighborhood-wide coordination to prepare the piles of food needed for each celebration. In this picture taken in Samtredia, my host relatives and neighbors...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chinese Wedding

    • Chinese Wedding

    • Weddings

    • This is a picture from my friend's wedding. I am with the bride and groom outside their reception/wedding site, where they greet all the guest and give them candy and cigarettes.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chris's Ordination Ceremony

    • Chris's Ordination Ceremony

    • Weddings; Religion; Traditional dress

    • My fiance, Chris, and I met while serving in Thailand as Teacher Collaboration and Community Outreach Volunteers from 2008-2010. While in the Peace Corps, Chris began studying Buddhism & meditation at a local temple and ordained as a monk during a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Lessons

    • Dance Lessons

    • Weddings

    • This photo was taken in a village near my post. I was invited to a wedding there- my first time attending a wedding in Cameroon. Everyone was dancing around the bride and I was just spectating until some of the dancers called me to join them. I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • dancing the Oro

    • dancing the Oro

    • Weddings; Dance

    • Dancing is a big part of Macedonian weddings. Everyone knows the traditional dances and dances them all night long. Even as an American, I was expected to not only know these dances, but expected to lead them as I was the bride!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dressed Up for a Wedding

    • Dressed Up for a Wedding

    • Weddings; Host families

    • I took this picture of my homologue and her sisters during the youngest sisters wedding. This was in my first 3 months at site and it was amazing to meet and feel so accepted bu all of her family. In Mali weddings are a very big especially for the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gift Procession at Wedding

    • Gift Procession at Wedding

    • Weddings; Celebrations; Crafts

    • This photo was taken during the gift procession at the wedding of my host sister Momon, at Ranvertlam village on the north of Ambrym Island in the country of Vanuatu. Guests lie their gifts in a pile and go and shake hands and cry with the newly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Husband and Wife

    • Husband and Wife

    • Weddings

    • I met my wife while buying vegetables from her in the market of Ipala, Chiquimula, Guatemala, and we were married about three years later. This photo is of my wife on our wedding day, and her various relatives who came to help with the cooking for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Iulian's Big Fat Romanian Wedding

    • Iulian's Big Fat Romanian Wedding

    • Weddings

    • One of the true wonders of the Peace Corps is how the lives of two people from a world apart can become so intertwined in such a short amount of time. In August 2005, this man – my counterpart – arrived at a Peace Corps conference to escort me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Karaganda Wedding Party

    • Karaganda Wedding Party

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends

    • I was honored when my friend Lyuba asked me to be the maid of honor at her wedding in October, 1994. This photo shows the newlyweds in the center with the best man on the left and me on the right.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kay and Tyler's Wedding March

    • Kay and Tyler's Wedding March

    • Weddings; Celebrations; Music; Dance

    • This is another photo I took of Kay and Tyler's village wedding, hosted by the gracious community of Gorno Dryanovo, Bulgaria. It is customary for the bride and groom to parade down the street, dancing the traditional horo, and celebrating their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kurdish Wedding

    • Kurdish Wedding

    • Weddings; Music; Dance

    • Taken in October 1969 in Kangavar, Iran, this picture was taken at the wedding of my housekeeper's 17 year old son. Prior to the wedding, the bridegroom, family and friends dance through the alleys to music by a reed horn player and drummer.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Moldovan Tradional Dance

    • Moldovan Tradional Dance

    • Dance; Weddings

    • I took this picture on 7/22/2010 in Moldova. In the picture are dancers dressed in traditional Moldovan dress during a wedding. They are dancing the "hora," Moldovan national dance.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Moldovan Traditional Dress

    • Moldovan Traditional Dress

    • Traditional dress; Weddings

    • I took this picture during a wedding in Moldova on 7/22/2010. In the picture is a young man and two ladies dressed in Moldovan traditional dresses. Most weddings in Moldova will have professional traditional dancers dressed in traditional dresses...
    • Volunteer Photos

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