Andy invited me to his house tonight after the Battimurung trip - an aunt of his is getting married (she's younger than he is), and there was a ceremony before the wedding. The ceremony involved the bride-to-be sitting up on a platform all dressed up (as seems to be the case across Indonesia) and there was a Koran reading, partly led by the male relatives and she also read some passages with the little reading stick people use.
Then there was a part of the ceremony where the bride-to-be sits with her palms up and female relatives come up one by one and take a leaf of the plant from which henna is made, and rub it on her palms, so there's a red mark, and this is to ensure a happy and prosperous marriage - didn't get a photo of that part!
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