Wedding Ceremony

Watermelon art in wedding ceremony
The time will come, sooner or later, where one by one, the people you know are getting married. It is the time when some people might feel insecure to see them married! There are a lot of tradition that are commonly believed in the society. Sometimes people believe they should bring their significant other to their friends' weeding ceremony, while other people unlucky enough to have that significant other yet. Yes, that's me! LOL

In Indonesia, the wedding ceremony is very sacred since it contains the symbol of religion and traditions (adat). The preparations also have a long story, since there are a lot of different practices even in the same tribe or local inherit. It need an intensive discussion on how the celebration should be done between the family, and that makes the preparation need a lot of head.

Most of the time, there are sessions of ceremonies to be done. First is to accomplish the religion direction about the marriage. Muslim need to say ijab qabul, or Christian need to declare in the church, Hindu people have the ceremony in the temple, and so on.  Next session will be the traditional ceremony. Since it is separated, it may be done some days or weeks after the religious ceremonies. unlike the religious ceremony, that mostly only invite close relatives, the traditional ceremony  should be colorful, and joyous. The friends of the married couple and their parents should be invited, or they mostly will ask why they were not invited after the ceremony, and it will make the family feels guilty.People are often dressed in traditional costume. There is lots of food as well as music, and sometimes dancing.

These days, sometimes this traditional ceremony is combined with the western style and food. The real traditional ceremony could be very tiring and boring; it may spent more than 3 days. Sometimes, it wastes a lot of money (especially in the city) and not very suit to the young people. The combination of traditional and modern will make it more elegant and faster, without losing the traditional identity and signature itself.

As I asked my friends, most of them think that the big ceremony waste the money and they are going to make it simple. Maybe there will be mindset shift to the young people, but it should be remembered that the wedding ceremony of the children will be the pride of the parents, and most parents will be do anything to make it big and special. The shift will not be in my generation, but perhaps in the next generation.

Well, of course I think those are still too far for me. I still have a lot of things to do and dream to be chased. For these days, let me enjoy those delicious foods and happy parties which are arranged by my friends, and join their happiness of their new life phase. Happy free eating!!


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