Tying The Knot - An Issan Wedding 

Series of shots about a thai wedding in the rural village of Ban Donwai, N.E. Thailand. The ceremony here shows the "tying of the knot" which is an offering of blessings and protections, also seen holding in his hands, the bride and bridegroom are given money, ripe banana and a ball of sticky rice as symbolic good wishes.

Picture here shows the oldest women in the village, aged 87 offering her blessings, but as the same time, a fly landed on her arm, according to thai beliefs of re-incarnation - this could well be one of the relatives from the past!