Inside 90 Day Fiancé Stars James and Meitailia’s Colorful, Traditional Javanese Wedding Ceremony! (Exclusive)
90 Day Fiancé‘s Meitalia and James tied the knot for a second time in a colorful Javanese wedding!
In PEOPLE’s exclusive first look at the Monday, Oct. 28 episode of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, the couple, who have been married for two and a half years and reside in Maine, celebrated with an elaborate, traditional Javanese ceremony.
In the wedding teaser, James — who met his wife of two and half years on social media and proposed just five days after visiting her in Indonesia after two months of online dating — can be seen smiling next to Meitalia as they enjoy a musical performance.
“Our entertainment tonight is called a Sintren,” Meitalia explains to TLC’s cameras. “It’s our cultural, Javanese tradition.”
Two women sing and dance as a man plays what appears to be a gamelan, an Indonesian orchestra that typically includes many bronze percussion instruments.
“It is a very unique sound, to say the least,” James says before attempting his own off-pitch rendition. “I don’t even know how to do it but they’re hitting tones with their voices that are just like out of this world. And I’m not sure the tones are necessarily supposed to have ever been hit by humankind, but it’s special.”
Next, the ceremony incorporated different cultural dances, including a dance called “Bidadari.”
“The dancing is really cool,” James tells the cameras as the teaser shows an ornately-dressed man captivating wedding guests with his dance movements. The clip cuts to a wowed James back at the wedding, who turns to Meitalia and admits, “I’m not gonna lie, that is impressive.”
But the mechanic from Maine appeared to have mixed feelings about the following traditional dance incorporated into their big day.
“And then apparently, they take a virgin girl, put her in a cage after tying her up, and then there’s a lot, a lot of smoke. And then she transforms or changes outfits inside the cage,” he says as the video shows two girls undergoing the process. “And she dances around in a trance while being possessed by an angel.”
James and Meitalia are one of six couples who will be featured this season on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, which is bringing back two couples from season 5 — Statler and Dempsey along with Shekinah and Sarper — and introducing four new pairs, including James and Meitalia, Josh and Lilly, Joanne and Sean and Corona and Ingi.
Episode 18 of season 6 of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way airs Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on TLC.
Source: People
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