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This takes place in the Karnak Temple. The Karnak Temple is open from 6.30 in the morning through to 5.30 at night and you need to purchase your tickets from the kiosk, it will take you around half a day to fully experience the Karnak Temple. The Pharaonic Wedding Festival takes place in October and around 40 couples will take part in this festival.

Pharoahs have a long association with being rich, splendorous and mystery. The Egyptian Pharaonic Weddings are something spectacular for the observers to watch. The Pahraonic Wedding Festival lets couples dress like the Kings and Queens of the past and wed in the same way they did many thousands of years ago.

The wedding as you could imagine is incredibly sophisticated, the costumes are spectacular and attention to detail means that the costumes are as similar as possible to what they were all those years ago.

Back in ancient Egypt, money was no object in these weddings, making each one more elaborate and different from the last. To this end the Pharaonic Wedding Festival gives observers a chance to see the costumes which these days we would think of as rather gaudy, both the "Queens" and the "Pharoahs" were dressed in all their best finery and wore copious amounts of make-up which was used on both the men and the women of ancient Egypt.

Marriage in Egypt is given such importance that this festival happens twice a year. You will also get to experience the sound and light show that is put on at the Karnak Temple. The show will begin with telling you about the birth of the city of Thebes and when and how the Karnak Temple was built. You will also learn about some of the great Pharoahs and their achievements of the ancient times.

To watch the Pharaonic Wedding Festival at the Karnak Temple is a wonderful experience full of romance and takes you back to the ancient times. Not only do you get to watch the festival, you get to explore the Karnak Temple as well as the outlying buildings and land giving you a real feel for what it was like to marry in ancient Egypt. There are many flights to egypt that you can take to get to the Karnak Temple