28th Edition - The President Post
28th Edition - The President Post
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GRA<br />
ROY<br />
WEDD<br />
“KPH Yud<br />
I marry y<br />
my daugh<br />
Bend<br />
C4<br />
October 12, 2011<br />
Photo Essay<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>President</strong> <strong>Post</strong><br />
www.thepresidentpost.com<br />
TEXT PHOTOS AND<br />
GGKR Bendara, the<br />
youngest daughter of<br />
Yogyakarta Sultan<br />
Hamengkubuwono X,<br />
was married to KPH<br />
Yudhanegara on October<br />
18 at the palace’s Panepen<br />
Mosque.<br />
“KPH Yudhanegara, I marry you<br />
with my daughter, GKR Bendara,” the<br />
Sultan said in the highest form of the<br />
Javanese language krama inggil.<br />
After the vow, the groom returned<br />
to the Kesatrian prince hall, while the<br />
Sultan and the guests moved to the<br />
main Kencana hall for the next ritual,<br />
panggih.<br />
Panggih is the peak of the ceremony<br />
where the bride and groom meet<br />
for the first time as man and wife.<br />
<strong>The</strong> royal wedding was shown on<br />
six giant screens set up across the<br />
city.<br />
On Monday the bride and groom<br />
underwent the siraman , or shower, a<br />
ceremony in which close relatives and<br />
elders shower the couple with flowerscented<br />
water to symbolically cleanse<br />
their body and soul.<br />
Bendara’s mother, Sultana Hemas,<br />
led the ritual, accompanied by her eldest<br />
daughter, Gusti Kangjeng Ratu<br />
Pembayun. <strong>The</strong> bride and groom were<br />
adorned with flowers and bathed in a
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