Karmila Wati first noticed Samsol Winda's smile when he checked her into a refugee camp after their homeland was lashed by Asia's deadly tsunami.

　　Winda kept coming back to ensure Wati and her family were getting relief supplies and soon romance bloomed.

　　The Indonesian couple - who both lost their homes and some relatives in the tsunami - married at a mosque yesterday and then held a party for fellow survivors under a leaky United Nations tarp in their survivors' camp.

　　The wedding ceremony was a first for the camp and brought rare smiles to the faces of people still traumatized by the December 26 disaster that killed more than 125,000 in their home province of Aceh and left some 400,000 homeless.

　　"This is so unbelievable. I never thought I'd meet my husband in a refugee camp," said Wati, 21, sitting next to her husband in their tent. "It must mean that good things will come after all this tragedy."

　　Winda, 25, said the wedding was a sign that God was looking out for them. "This is the fate from Allah," he said.

　　A steady stream of guests looked into the newlyweds' tent, which was decorated to look like a traditional Acehnese wedding house, with red and yellow wall hangings and pillows, and colorful rugs on the ground.

　　The newlyweds wore traditional Acehnese wedding clothes - Wati in a yellow dress with a golden, spiked crown while Winda wore a black and yellow coat, a green hat, plus a small sword known as a rencong at his side.

　　For the 50 guests - mostly dressed in donated T-shirts and rubber sandals - the party was a brief respite from their own problems and showed a glimmer of normalcy in the badly damaged provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

　　Near the camp schools have opened and traders have set up stalls along the main road selling fruits, vegetable and fish.

　　"I'm very happy they can do this," said Abdul Salam, 42, a leader of Rima Jeune village. "Everyone has found their spirit today and hopefully things will get better."

　　(The Associated Press)