Bali Wedding

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 admin

Bali Shuka Wedding

Wedding is part of the life stage of human being however every couple , every region in Indonesia have their tradition of a custom on how conducting a wedding ceremony .Not only the ceremony but they have a diversity on wedding dress as well .In Balinese word wedding can be translated into NGANTEN .Nantes mean two person with different in gender has proclaimed that they have falling in love each other and step forward to legalized their union through a ceremonial rite of Hindu .They wedding system in Bali called “Patrilineal”which mean the bride will her family and follow the groom’s Family .In the past the Balinese Family can be very big and they live in one compound but not any more. Most Family now live independently with their new family due to they have to looking for a job and already been assigned far away from Family. For the Bali Wedding , the Balinese groom may find his beloved partner by him self or can be marriage by choice .Marriage by choice of parent is no more used in Bali due to give many bed effect or caused so many divorce and therefore the parent will let his son or daughter find their own partner. The Balinese people still following caste system , this caste is grouped since Bali in led by the King ,the king giving a job to support the government activities , a group of people assigned for manage ,prepare a ceremony to include blessing for Bali Wedding , this group of people called Brahmin .The holy Priest or Pedanda are coming from this group of people .The preparation to be a Priest is really hard , she or he must learnt and prepare him herself with all knowledge they should know to include understand offering ,Veda. The Brahmin people normally communicate with higher level of language called locally “ Bahasa Halus” Bali Wedding in their language called “PAWIWAHAN “. The second group of People called”Kesatria” this group of people are assigned to be a knight of the Kingdom or as a military .the 3^rd group called Waisya, this group of people assigned to manage the economy of the Kingdom ,the last group or the 4^th called ‘Sudra”They had assigned to manage all the farming activites,fisherman and so on .For the Bali wedding some of the above group of people still fanatic and they must get married with the person which are coming from the same group but some people ignore it .For the Bali wedding normally taken place in the family house compound and all promise and blessing carried out in the family temple .Since the Patrelinial system so for all couple will passing some process to get married .1^st called ‘Masedekang “,the groom family ( father ,mother and groom ) will come to bride’s house to state that their son falling in love to their daughter and wish to marry her .some question from the bride’s parent will be addressed to the groom ,like history how they met each other and reconfirm again if the groom really loving the bride .If they the bride parents agreed so it can be processed with finding out a good day for their wedding date or Balinese called it “ Dewasa” dewasa mean mature or good .The wedding date has been decided so they may proceed to appoint out about when the bride will be picked up and taken to groom familly,this process called NGIDIH or MAPADIK .During MAPADIK the big Family of the groom will come along to bride’s house and also the bride`s family ready to welcome the groom and big family .The head civil villagers called kelian dinas and head of culture villagers called Kelian adat invited during Mapadik .This two official invited guest will signing a certificate and witnessing that the bride is not part of the villagers any more so all responsible for culture and civil under the new civil association of the groom .all detail of the bride will be changed soonest and follow address of the groom .each parent will give some short message about Bali wedding ,the essential of a marriage and on how to make eternal family .each person or bride and groom will be asked to leave all their bad habit and they must respect each other and as well as to the Family .Before the bride leave her house , she must come and pray to her family temple to get permission and bless from her ancestor that she will leave her family this ceremony called “MAPAMIT” .A small reception normally done by the bride’s family and serving any kind of food to all family and Guests. It is much depend on the economic status of the bride’s family .it is not an obligatory to serve the food.

The next stage, the bride and permission to her parent and Family and leave for the groom house .The some bride’s family will come along the groom’s house.

Upon arrival at the entrance of groom house , a small ceremony called “PEMAPAG “welcome carried out by the holy Priest .Both bride and groom may take a breath for a while or refresh to prepare the real Bali Wedding Ceremony .The Ceremony is commenced by a chanting of Holy Priest by inviting of the God of love called DEVA SEMARA RATIH .thus the mabea kawon ceremony ,this ceremony is for the purpose of cleansing both bride and groom from the evil or bad effect and then “Natab Sayut “ during this process with the witness of GOD they say his promise each other and they religiously married .This wedding process called” NIKAH ADAT “a Bali Wedding base on customs. Those are the process for Bali wedding. At night continued with wedding reception which is attended by the youth’s people from the village.