Last weekend I went to the wedding of one of the volunteers from the group before me. After all this time in Fiji, this was the first Fijian wedding I've been to. The cloths they're wearing are traditional wedding dress made from the bark of a certain tree. Before Europeans came to Fiji with their textiles, this was the kind of thing clothing Fijians wore everyday, though not so elaborately decorated. Now they're just worn for special occasions. All of us volunteers were happy to represent the brides family since they couldn't make it all the way to Fiji for the wedding.
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