A man in Central Java, Indonesia, 29-year-old construction worker Khoirul Anam, married his Philips rice cooker in a traditional wedding ceremony.
In the midst of Central Java’s picturesque landscape, Khoirul Anam sealed his commitment to the rice cooker in a unique wedding ceremony held on 20 September.
The images of Anam holding his “wife” adorned in a sheer white veil and affectionately kissing it then quickly went viral online.
Love at first cook
Anam revealed that the idea of marrying a rice cooker arose from a lighthearted conversation with his friends.
In their discussions about the qualities they desired in a partner, they highlighted the importance of a “fair” bride who possessed strength, obedience, and a quiet nature.
Holding a rice cooker during this exchange, Anam concluded that it embodied the ideal characteristics he sought in a spouse.
Anam wasted no time in formalizing his relationship with the rice cooker. The wedding ceremony itself was an unpretentious affair, attended only by close friends as he put a ring on his bride.
They gathered in a modest room, where a photographer captured the moments of this union. Anam, using his passport as proof of identity, dressed his “wife” for the occasion with a priest also presiding over the traditional wedding ceremony.
Divorced 4 days later
Although the marriage between Anam and the rice cooker created a stir, it proved to be short-lived.
Unlike traditional marriages, this peculiar bond lacked the complexities of legal proceedings, alimony claims, or conventional grounds for divorce.
Anam shared that he made the “heavy and round” decision and decided to end the marriage and get a divorce because he found himself unable to handle the “pressure” and because the cooker only cooked rice and not vegetables.
He later revealed that the whole thing was just a joke and that it was for “entertainment” that he did “in all earnestness”.