In Reply to: It was a Hindu wedding posted by SurfAddict on Sunday, 28. January 2007 at 18:21 Bali Time:
Typical male!! 11th November, 1983 - numerologically auspicious &, although we had preferred a different date, the Balinese said that it was also an auspicious date on the Balinese calendar that year. Sheesh hun!!
And, as I recall, we'd been taking a stroll down memory lane in that restaurant in Penang (tiddly on G&Ts), reminiscing about our over 8 years of living together (as well as the many years of knowing each other during teenager-dom). And I said, well, I suppose it's about time we got married, aye? And it'd be nice to get married in Bali because neither of us want the trad Aussie wedding thingy & the Balinese family in whose losmen we'd been living were egging us on (good luck kawin di Bali). Besides, friends & family were coming over to visit us anyway so.. hey, why not? And you said .... er slurred ... yes.
Little did we know what was in store for us. I had envisaged a trip to Catitan Sipil (registry office) then a small gathering. But of course the Bailinese insisted that we have a traditional wedding as well and it just grew into a HUGE event completely out of our hands with local dignitaries (we had to send out formal invitations) being invited as well as the whole of Legial Kaja. We actually were allowed to invite some of our friends!!!
We went of in a motor bike convoy with bro & sis-in-law to the Catital Sipil in the morning, became legally wed, had a feast at Glory's then back to Eddy's Garden to a hive of activity with the Balinese men on a platform preparing food, cutting up the chooks they'd killed, and the sound of the piggies about to become bali guling wasn't nice. The girls had been to Denpasar markets early & brought back flowers etc and were making the offering towers.
Lots more. Hubby can take over perhaps. It was the most wonderful wedding. And the Balinese were right - it IS good luck to be married in Bali. And even now, down on the beach at Legian when I say my name, the older ones say OH Eeeda kawin-di-Bali? And I say Ya!!!