My Traditional Wedding

As much as I would love to have a modern-muslim wedding, I also wanted a traditional one. Not only the decoration that is fully traditional (by mom's request) which we called gebyok, me and the moms wanted to me to wear the Solo traditional headpiece (kembang goyang) as well.

Marriage is only once in a lifetime (aamiin) and when else would you wear this extravagant inherited culture if not in your marriage - at least that was what I had in mind. So, at the end, I opted for a traditional Solo wedding. I opted for the Solo instead of Jogja because the headpiece fits the shape of my face better. But the Solo headpiece is actually more complicated than the Jogja headpiece if you're wearing hijab, because there's the sasak part that you can't simply shape & cover neatly. Thanks to my genius make up artist, tante Neni Nazeh, she was able to do the Solo headpiece really well and everyone said that my make up looked really good. Even I can't stop smiling looking at myself!