{"id":2840,"date":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/12\/2003-02-12-hindu-marriages-popular-in-kerala-with-non-hindu-foreigners\/"},"modified":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","slug":"2003-02-12-hindu-marriages-popular-in-kerala-with-non-hindu-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/12\/2003-02-12-hindu-marriages-popular-in-kerala-with-non-hindu-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Marriages Popular in Kerala with Non-Hindu Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?artid37191740\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KOCHI, INDIA, February 12, 2003: Traditional Hindu marriage rituals are fast becoming popular among Westerners who crisscross continents and fly to Kerala to take their wedding vows. The former Dutch palace at Bolghatty, now a hotel of the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation, was the venue of one such wedding on Monday. For the bride, Nicola Pauling, a journalist with Reuters and groom John Freeman, a pharmaceutical retailer from UK, Kochi was their dream venue, which they chose six months ago after a visit here. Two weeks ago, a Canadian couple, who had been married for 40 years, were married again in traditional Hindu style. HPI adds: British Rock star Mick Jagger and supermodel Jerry Hall were married in Bali on November 21, 1990, in a Hindu ceremony. A British high court ruled their Hindu marriage null and void August 13, 1999, because it did not adhere to the laws of Indonesia. Regarding marriage in Indonesia the law states, &#8220;Law No. 1 of 1974 concerning marriages in Indonesia, Article 2 (1): a marriage is legitimate if it has been performed according to the laws of the respective religious beliefs of the parties concerned.&#8221; To be married in a Hindu ceremony in Indonesia one must already be Hindu, or sign a paper before the marriage that you are converting to the religion of your spouse (who must already be Hindu). A Hindu marriage of non-Hindus may similarly be invalid in India. A related question is whether Hindu priests should perform wedding ceremonies for non-Hindus if they are already married as was the case in Kerala. Bali priests rethought their policies after the Jagger annulment. Readers with comments, please send them to HPI.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE KOCHI, INDIA, February 12, 2003: Traditional Hindu marriage rituals are fast becoming popular among Westerners who crisscross,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}