Yesterday I attended a traditional Batak wedding. The Batak are Christian Indonesians living in North Sumatra. I've now attended church services in English, Spanish, Cantonese, and Indonesian (or Batak.. not sure which language was being spoken). Not bad for someone with no religion, eh?
After the church service, there's something like a reception for the next 12 hours until 2 in the morning. I went for lunch to have some kind of spicy fatty pig, a traditional Batak wedding meal. Yum. The younger people come at night, so I went back with the staff of my guesthouse. We each put some money on a plate under dry rice as an offering to the newlyweds, and then did some kind of Batak wedding line dance with our hands together, followed by all-out energetic dancing to Indonesian disco music, and then some more traditional Batak dancing. Good times.
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