Royal Wedding: Bali Style (Wedding Documentary) | Real Stories

The countdown to a Bali Hai

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has begun in the

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palace of Ubud villagers from all over and is taking place in these centuries-old Balinese

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traditions. We need two thousand five hundred people since the center of everything is the mother of the

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family. boyfriend of an Australian Balinese princess. She was trying to calculate how stressful it is to organize a wedding because of the money spilled. Yes, that could be what happens if you are also expected to oversee complex Hindu traditions, observe royal protocols, and have your son, the prince, get married. a famous Indonesian actress just a week away from the big day, hundreds of villagers arrive daily with their donations of ritual offerings and food tributes to her revered royal family.

It is also an opportunity to get closer to the famous girlfriend, Happy Salma, adored by the Indonesian television star. I went in there first for my wedding, excited too and yes, it's a whole new world for a happy Javanese Muslim, but for Prince chuckles, a Hindu, his marriage ceremony is a familiar part of the spiritual life of his people . The Balinese wedding is different from anywhere in the world, it is friendly. of a mix between animist and Buddhist and Hindu later it's a Diwali-only thing something of course being Balinese is important I don't think she's ever saying about this friends no I don't think you can be prepared for what's happening it's probably Better not for me, the head of this extensive royal family of approximately 300 members is the husband of Princess Nursery, the father of the groom, my name is taka daka, maintained by Yasir, who comes from Warriors Inlet, we can breed up to the twentieth fourth generation until the beginning of the 20th century and the Dutch. colonial rule the royal family were the feudal monarchs of a board or boat is located in the interior of Bali in the heart of the board is poor or pod the royal palace is the cultural center of Bali famous for its spirituality Balinese Hinduism mixed with an ancient reference because the natural world is part of the fabric of daily life and the villagers regard the palace as custodians of their face back in 2004, the royal family presided over the largest funeral ceremony in living memory: the cremation of the daughter of the last true king of Bali, a woman considered for most of the last century to be a living goddess, in 2004, Princess Arthur, her daughter Princess Maya, was an 11-year-old girl boarded in Sydney for most of the year she came to Bali to honor his grandmother and fulfilled the role that she had. was born to the Balinese princess Oh boots Royal ceremonies bring together thousands of local people in a community of more than 69 villages and now, seven years later, the community is preparing once again for another royal event in Auburn, this time the wedding of a prince and today Princess Audrey. and her husband, Prince Registrar Akka, are hosting a party for her royal family and everyone is invited while Princess Ostry entertains her royal in-laws; is a world away from the reception she received as a young bride 32 years ago, my own father Rovers jangle SB, yes simple Jane, it was 1977 and the 23 year old kindergarten teacher from Sydney who was on holiday On board she fell in love with the local children's theater director.

A printed destination, yes, in English. Jane's parents did not expect that a Christmas romance would lead her to marry the Balinese. Prince, my dad was fine with that, I actually remember him saying, well, thank God, he's not an Australian leftist. Colonel Rollo Gillespie, a former British intelligence agent, had made a living in Australia with his wife and his two children. My father had married before he had much time. older than my mother but not as old as Rocket I was Rocket I grew up with 10 mothers and numerous brothers and things of course I only grew up with a mother and a brother as the youngest son of his father's 10th wife who he was expected to be with the prince will get married. within the Balinese royal family there was a lot of opposition and people who tried to dissuade him from doing so took my passport and had me searched, and Prince Chacorta Raka of Interpol refused to accept family pressure and in 1978 he became an Australian commoner . a

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nese princess for the newly married princess Audrey Life in the palace was far from palatial, we had no electricity, no running water, no refrigeration, no telephones, yes we didn't have much in those days and it was a very small town I think My parents would be surprised, ha ha ha, it was quite primitive, I guess for them when I saw the conditions in which we would live, going back in time almost with the arrival of their first child, life in the palace became even harder for three. she got a degree in child psychology and child parenting and they told me you can't do this you can't do that and I had my mother in law sleeping outside the door and knocking on the door every time there was a moan oh no, it was quite difficult.

I remember having to lock myself in my room. Some of the biggest challenges were our own cultural differences and expectations. I guess he had a lot to apologize to his family, unlike her, for me, you know, I had to apologize. I also learned to bite my tongue and be given to things when I felt it was necessary, but it was a steep learning curve for both of us to understand each other's culture and for a Balinese princess observing sacred rituals was part of the role I attended an In the Anglican school wasn't religious at all, but switching to Hinduism wasn't a big deal for me, it's part of daily life here, it's not something you have to do or not do consciously, I mean everyone does it in your heart. you can pay whoever you want, it's great through your actions and three hearts, thirty-two years in an Azeri scene or makes tourism and prosperity transform the once rural community.

Rising wealth means that Balinese royal weddings are celebrated much more lavishly for the minced goose and happy Ashley. The wedding portrait is an image of days gone by. It's simpler in all of Bao. It's not just that no family is much richer and they spend their money on ceremonies, so it's more of a big show now than it was in those days. royal family Prince Chacorta Akka is watching over the royal invitation committee, some of them are preparing for the invitation that will be sent out tomorrow, but in Bali the notable invitations come printed on paper the groom's father and an older brother, Prince Jacques of ours, supervising the preparation of the invitations made. of food, these are like a cultural invitation, it is the traditional way you send an invitation to the family and other people within you who know your type of cultural circle, while the women are busy making elaborate decorative offerings for the wedding, traditionally It is men who prepare these invitations to the usual meal, there are strict conventions to observe with Sartre's pig, they have to count as something other than satay for the high priest, they must be 22 sticks for the most important person, then they become 16 suits and then you recognize how important the person will be.

I will be sending the food, now we will go out in vans everywhere and they will deliver it personally, as traditional invitations are delivered to hundreds of royal high priests and village elders on a boat heading south on Bali's surf coast , the groom is personally. deliver wedding invitations to your maids no more ticks for your nightlife my full name is shkodra the biggest us, Santana Casa, we also call him max by many westerners because, when I was a child in Sydney, it was full of cold and I grew up as a normal kid in sydney. We used to return every year, always getting a little taste of Balinese culture, where the nursery and Takada Rocca decided to educate their three children in Australia, which meant leaving Bali and living as Australians.

I was born in Bali and when you are born here. They bury your placenta and their people say that some Balinese are a type of people who find it very difficult to move abroad. It's because your placenta is buried here instead of castaways. We moved around a lot, although I still get a little confused. sometimes, but they are such different cultures that they are like a tolerance even though they are apparently close to her sister, Princess Maya, these cultural differences were relentless, yes, growing up was

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ly difficult, like the main conflict for me is being a girl. difference between what is acceptable for a young woman within Western culture and within Indonesian culture there is also a bit of prejudice because you are half Asian and so it is a bit difficult to deal with, you never know exactly where you fit. and exactly where you are accepted challenging years as a servant husband who took on a job unheard of for a prince, can you imagine?

And street gardening, you know, in Australia, and that's a big fight when you grow up mentally, it's painful and you have to do it. deal with it until you get over it and that's some kind of exercise you

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ly need it you have to feel the pain but after they pass next time it's okay if I garden and that's fine if not I'm fine with a family too real that has now returned permanently. In Bali for more than a decade, Prince Chacorta Rocca has become the head of culture and religion in a board with the title of wise man.

Nowadays, they also often have to consult me ​​because I have been living in the West, which gives me some news. perspective here in modern times without losing the essence of our culture growing up in the West did not cut cultural ties for real children. I've always had a strong connection just because of the things my father always taught me, leave your home and your ancestors when I was a teenager max left Sydney to live permanently in Bali as Prince Jacques of course especially here in oh boy no There is a lot to do for young people, ceremonies like going to the mall or something like that, you can go out, you can watch the Girls, you can meet your friends.

You know it's small, it's more of a social thing for young people. Max has always been a Bali boy. He has lived his life here in Australia, but he prefers it here. He likes to surf. You know he has it all. these friends, his gang and, like his father before him, Max met his girlfriend on holiday in Bali, happy to have met us when she was here on holiday with one of her friends and then we all went to the beach, that's how we met after that. a little more serious, yes, and here manicure happy comes from Java, an Indonesian island with very different cultural and religious traditions, like Reba, happy has a lot to learn to be part of this Balinese royal family wedding in Indonesia, not only married to the man. like me he laughs at that but I'm married to everyone they are family how he laughs married to me he also married my family she is so beautiful always beautiful and for the happy Selma, the television star, there is another family with her millions of fans devotees in donations.

I don't really watch national television and since tomatoes aren't a big deal, I guess some of my cousins ​​and other people in the family ask about finding out you're going to be half an actress and look, I don't know what they expect, I never think about that. she as a celebrity is fine now my daughter-in-law I remember that in my high school supervised by the princess we are weird / future sister-in-law Pappy is in an intensive cultural course learning how to make Hindu offerings For their royal wedding, they really have a strong personality and great energy, so I feel like that, like a member of an aristocratic family.

We had had our own struggles when we fell in love with Prince Jacques Day of the Catholic Church. family when I moved to Bali human with him I have a Balinese boyfriend and his Hindu and my family become oh oh, you know he's Hindu. He used to work in a chiropractic clinic in Kota. This is one of the patient care factors that fix when he has a broken heart. so i confronted him after getting over his family's initial reservations, we made up and the day of the cut became another love marriage for his real family, yes that's probably something we learn from our father, the accepted traditional is to get married within the same class with someone from the same class.

In the regional palace or in the neighboring palaces, many alliances are still being formed, even today many young generation continue to do the same as the 83-year-old royal matriarch, the days cut short, the grandmother married a prince who already had other nine wives. Marie's mother-in-law. I was the tenth wife of a much older husband I was the youngest in my family my father I heard from the mice all this history of the house he had about ten wives polygamy is part of the Balinese tradition in our life many people had told him oh well You know it's okay, you can have her, but not get a real wife for a Balinese wife.

I just made it obvious to him that if he wanted to have another wife, it would be fun, but you couldn't have two. I won't be number one. wife and then and having number two was I'll be the ex wife, my brother in law had two wives and that doesn't work, it never works no matter what they say, and even Balinese women don't like to share, no. I never talk about it and therefore I also think that real husbands taking another wife is a very personal decision, obviously,I don't want that to happen again, it depends on the dates as you decided, if you think you need another one, no, I think so.

We all know we just want to be the only ones, but yes, yes, Princess Harry has made a last-minute decision: pick up formal Balinese outfits that are being made for the royal women in the bridal party. Ezra's youngest daughter, 18 year old Princess Maya, is with her for a last minute fitting, I think Maya is in a difficult position because obviously there are a lot of expectations on her, a lot of pressure on her, not because of that ass but for the time she has to marry a Balinese, not just ballets that are here. someone from the family, but yeah, when she looks around, if I marry out of the royal family, I basically lose my title and I'm not part of the family anymore, she gets a lot of pressure from other people that everyone tries to match. she is awake with this, I know that sometimes it discourages her from doing things because she is really tired of the pressure, unlike her two brothers, Princess Maya, it is nice to marry another member of the royal family to keep her title as princess royal and qualify for the Balinese royal wedding to be able to have a wedding like that, I would have to get married. in the family and honestly I don't see that happening so I don't think that's the kind of wedding I'll have with her son getting ready for her wedding.

The princess has three needs to control her business an hour's drive from a child at the moment with the preparations for the wedding it is a challenge because here she is very busy together with her son the prince cut Azeri princess opened a tea house I wanted having a business mom wasn't doing much either at the time so we decided we would do it together. I thought about the things I wanted to say in Bali that weren't here and that's when my son and I came up with the concept of feud. It's in an old wooden juggler that is a Javanese house, a sort of eclectic mix of old Indonesia and old England.

I would say yes, when Ezra's daughter in law wanted to work part time, actually, like oh wow, why don't you work it bhiku, so now become? involved with the client with all the things, the cooking and everything and then I also love making the cupcake with a royal family in charge the tourists are not only looking for the Baku cakes, what is the princess when would you like to see the prison oh yes, If that's okay and for Princess das 3zt house it also represents the changes she has experienced as a Westerner in Bali, well, it's a completely different place than the place I came from.

I mean, there's nothing we can't do in Bali now, it's a luxury destination. almost decadent and in many ways while the tourists have fun, the Balinese people put their traditional responsibilities first. Hundreds of Abboud villages are hard at work preparing for the royal wedding, as well as their many offerings to the Balinese Hindu gods. This work is a sign of respect and appreciation. of this donation and the workers are the source of all the volunteers, this is how our tradition of maintaining cultural life while giving the royal family an entire village is creating intricate ritual offerings to be displayed on the wedding day, the making of the offering will take days.

The time that the townspeople would normally spend working in their rice fields or in paid jobs, a replica of the temple is being made out of pig fat and Sartre, complete with umbrellas made of inerts, making these offerings for the royal wedding is a ancient spiritual custom. it's an integral part of life here it's just a part of daily life barley moves to a different set of priorities than Sydney and more commercial parts of the world at the end of that why do people like to come here some people who don't even They don't even go to The ceremony says there's something in the air here.

The people have sculpted a macrocosm knowing that the gods and ancestors will also appreciate the beauty of their art with the offerings now complete. They are needed in the palace. It is a difficult journey across the border along dirt roads and bumpy roads. The offerings arrive at the palace in pieces. Roel's groom, Prince Chop Goose, is on hand to receive the wedding gift from the villagers who have just to bring, so as a decorative offering they have been making for a few days and this is made with pork fat and a thousand guests are expected. The prince took the order.

Akka and the princess story are making a personal visit to the wedding caterer. She said this is the most popular vegetable. The third and stuff means interacting with a banana leaf. and less DeMuth, yes, you have to try. Princess Audrey is no stranger to organizing large events under pressure when the terrorist bomb attack hit Bali in 2002, killing and injuring hundreds of tourists and locals as we rushed to help with the aftermath in that time of crisis, here helping. in the hospital and then fundraising and helping out with everything we couldn't after the bomb, it was hard sometimes being Australian.

The Australians seemed to take it as their tragedy, while in reality it was a Balinese tragedy. People forgot about the Indonesians in that garden. it affected a lot more Indonesians who did the Australia thing, you know, they were left with nothing, so I tried to help the widows of the Indonesians who were killed there and, in something that was ongoing, it wasn't just yeah, one time, I mean, you know, try and help me in any way you can, but not as part of the royal family. Do me justice. The royal wedding is imminent and the palace is desperate for the forces of nature to come to the party.

Now there are two days left to sleep more. It's pouring rain, hmm, yes. that could be a problem, we will have rain caps that day, so whatever the job, the rain caps are Balinese mystics, the groom's older brother already has this mystic working as a man as the rainiest cap , he is simply here to see how things are going and take care of them. I guess the invisible world, so I mean, yes, rain is a thing, there are all kinds of other things that you can see that we can't see happy and FS but excited that way the wedding day dawns a poor Eeyore booed in just a few hours, 2,000 guests will arrive there with Nastasia.

There are no wedding rituals unique to Bali and the pressure is on Happy, who hasn't even seen the ceremony before the big day. Today she is nervous. Yeah, he didn't sleep so well last night. She is quite nervous. She seems very happy, she is feeling more than the nerves of the wedding day, her Muslim origin has not prepared her for the Balinese rituals that the princess, as a free person, also found foreign. I was of origin, my other daughter Loras was Catholic, we have all adapted them, I am sure they will adapt. to

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nese beliefs and customs because i know what it's like for your prince to dismember akka as head of the royal family arrives for a last minute inspection in another part of the palace the princess s3 is under the care of the bridal hall i think i'm high in the family now, I mean, I think I'm completely integrated there and some people accepted me, some didn't, some never did.

This wedding day will be epic for everyone in the royal family, there will be two of them. completely different wedding ceremonies and the first one is about to begin. Childress is getting dressed for her ceremony, which is the first part of the wedding ceremony, so in the morning you have what is called the basic wedding so anyone can have this basic wedding in the morning and they can marry the attended by an entire royal family the mourning ceremony begins when a village priest officiates happy and the chocos represent the ancient fertility rites and ancestral traditional roles for men and women the mourning ceremony can be quite fun you walk around and there is a little whip he whips you with if to walk three times we have to exhaust the symbolic kitchen and if to sell things and he buys things if you just sit on a coconut it's pretty complicated, but I mean, some people just push you in the park and You sit down while standing up, you don't really have to think about it, just do it according to Balinese tradition, the couple is now married, but this is no ordinary wedding and royal rituals are about to take place.

The press conference in the middle of the wedding day is not part of royal tradition when the groom is a prince and the bride is a star, the media will not deny that. Prince Noctis has found the right girl for him. I dated some other girls they always felt like they were too different people in this sacred western art, so I didn't find much connection, like her older brother Top Goose also married an Indonesian girlfriend, they have always targeted Asian women, usually Indonesians, maybe so. They've seen me and they wouldn't want to put anyone through that, my son Brad, why are you fooling me?

Maybe we saw how difficult it was for mom to adapt tea because it was a big change, she had to learn two new languages ​​and learn how. Talking to different people and seeing her get ahead the way she did was something that inspired us. We both married people who are not Balinese so they have to adapt and change life here a lot but I guess it's we have a word called judo in Indonesia which simply means that the person you intended to go with a whole new guest list VIP is arriving to witness the big wedding, old friends, Australian console, yes the bride and groom are now dressed in all their regalia. from the royal house of Ward I'm not too sure about the lipstick no I'm still going to buy my van it's not that bad I hate Hamlet for two hours I think it's worse for girls the bride's crown is layers and layers of golden flowers They weigh in kilos have been finished as the insignia of his bride, the groom will wear the traditional tall suit that is only seen in the palace of abuddin a prince of the warrior caste will wear a real Khris Khris is a symbolic fact so they are considered a sacred relic.

It plays a very important role in the life of the palace, so each palace will have almost like an armory of different folds passed down from generation to generation. There is a very mystical element, very magical, a clear story, so you will ask where they came from and Don't be surprised if someone tells you that they flew out of a window or came out of the ground, so these kinds of things happen at certain times in Barmy. If a royal marries a royal, your aides carry you on their shoulders to be great. strong village boys, but if you marry someone who is not from the royal family, you have to walk, so we have all walked with her family watching Happy become a Balinese princess and, like her Australian mother-in-law, she is taking on the role. of my life this is my destiny the high caste Brahmin priest grants his blessings and holy water to the couple in this rite of passage prince choc goose is formally accepting his cultural applications I still have a lot to learn but most people are beginning to learn more after they get married and have to get more involved in the community this process continues you know as the royal couple embarks on their life together in bali princess s3 knows what they will face happy they will find it hard to be a part from Bali.

You know, the culture is pretty demanding for anyone who wasn't born and raised in it, and for him, I guess he's going to be negotiating throughout the whole process, which is also difficult. Prince2 quarter akka has continued a royal dynasty with the Australian princess of him. We are all pretty good at exchanging cultures. I like to encourage maintaining cultural balance. Today, his children have chosen to embrace their royal Balinese heritage and live in the modern world. The most important thing in Bali is the concept of balance. Not balance. Balan media strike message is moving