Monday 18 October 2010

CEREMONIES AT IDA BAGUS EKA TAKES HIS FIANCEE, DESAK IN UBUD.




The wedding SARAD thanksgiving/prosperity offering.




The bride-fetching vehicle leaves the compound, with village well-wishers looking on.


The grooms grandfather and his aunt in the back of the strassenpanzer kavetching about who hasn't turned up.


Outside desaks dressing room the courtyard is in full swing.




At Desak's house in Ubud: the Brahmans r received royally; 70 other family and
friends from down south fill the small house.





The pemecutan moncol offers a prayer to the newly engaged.




Desak, the fiancee, gets a load of offerings in her dressing chamber.








Desak's priest offers her benediction(?) As she excuses herself from the family house shrine.