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Other details at least as reported by the British press will strike most Indian Hindus as bizarre. Apparently the priest conducting the ceremony took a live chicken and then slit its neck to bless the union. Balinese Hinduism does not necessarily follow the same rituals as those created in Hinduism homeland, but even cheap jordans shoes so.

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Jagger lawyers took the line that no matter how romantic the ceremony was it had no legal validity. While the priest (the chicken slasher) may have believed he was conducting a wedding ceremony, he had neglected to fill out the correct forms.

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I went to cheap jordans in china Bali a few years after the Jagger Hall (or not quite divorce). Though it had been over a decade since the couple either got married or did not, locals were still talking about the wedding. At Amandari in Ubud, where I stayed, I was shown a villa, which the couple had occupied on that sort of wedding trip and much was made of the Jagger Hall connection.

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Well, they said, they wouldn put it quite that way. But yes, couples from all over the world came to Bali to get married and the hotel was proud to host them.

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In fact, I was once in Florence and all anybody could talk about cheap air jordan was how the local administration had cheap air jordan agreed to block off town squares and whole streets to facilitate a big Indian wedding.

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Opinions were divided among locals: some believed that this was a scandal and a misuse of public spaces. Others thought that no harm had been done.

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If the Indians hosting the wedding were willing to contribute to the flagging economies of Western European countries, then wasn it sensible for the locals to just take the money without complaining.