Holidays don't mean you have to go on holiday to enjoy natural views and develop existing hobbies, or just laze around. If I look at the time, I admit that if it's a holiday I can laze around a bit and sleep a little longer than usual with an extension of only about 1 hour. Why only one hour? Because many schedules have been planned waiting for the weekend, not office work schedules but schedules for gathering with family or attending invitations, including inauguration invitations, engagements, weddings or friends' birthday invitations, so actually Sundays are not the right time to laze around.
Like my agenda for this Sunday where I was invited with my cousin to attend his wedding which was held last Sunday, don't you judge the bride wrong? Because the bride and groom's bodies are very small. However, even though their bodies are small, they are of appropriate marriageable age in our country, namely Indonesia. The man is 26 years old while the woman is 25 years old. In your country, is it too young to get married at this age?
My cousin's wedding carries Javanese customs. You should know that in Indonesia there are more than 100 ethnic groups with different languages and different cultures, but we still use our unified language, namely Indonesian. Javanese weddings can be distinguished from the makeup worn by the bride, namely in the form of a bun and black carvings on the forehead. Not only that, in terms of traditional clothing, it can also be distinguished from other tribes. And don't forget the real jasmine flowers hanging from the woman's bun and the groom's keris.
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Then, if you see several carvings of coconut leaves being carried by the bridesmaids, they are called Pagar Bagus and Pagar ayu ayang, which means that there will be a man and a woman who are heading towards the gates of marriage where there will definitely be many trials afterwards. And they have to maintain the marriage and go through the trials, and hopefully the marriage they have will be peaceful until death do them part.
At this wedding, did you see eggs and other ingredients placed inside the long cloth? The Javanese sacred event will soon begin, marked by the breaking of eggs by the groom and bride and there are many other sacred events which will take a little longer, but I cannot explain them.
And to attend this wedding, especially a family wedding, the procession of which I followed from the start, took a little time, namely from morning to mid-afternoon, after returning home from the wedding I went straight to sleep and lazed around a bit before doing my next activity, namely gardening.
That was my agenda for this Sunday? what about you? Do you have the same event as I did last Sunday? And does your country have customs like this? I want to know, come on, tell me and my regards, Tomi Diwirja from Indonesia
