Cambodians celebrate snake wedding

Hundreds of Cambodians have celebrated the wedding of two snakes in the rather warped belief that it will bring those attending prosperity and peace.

The bride was Chamreun, a 16ft-long (4.8m) python weighing 200lb (90kg), and the groom, Krong Pich, was a smaller snake, so it is clear who will be wearing the one-legged trouser in that relationship.

Buddhist monks blessed the pair and villagers showered them with flowers during the two-hour ceremony in a village just south of the capital Phnom Penh.

“We were told (by fortune-tellers) that the two pythons are husband and wife and they need to live together, and if we don’t marry them we will meet bad luck,” a local was quoted by AFP as saying.