In Indonesia, a traditional baby shower is held during the seventh month of a woman’s first pregnancy and Villa Kropak provided the perfect backdrop for this couple’s beautiful ceremony
The event, called Mitoni, is an opportunity to provide a blessing for the parents to be for the forthcoming birth. A bower made of leaves and floral decorations is created for the occasion and the mother to be sits here to receive the blessings. Attended by family elders, close family and friends, the ceremony has a number of traditional elements, many based around the number seven.

The mother to be is the ceremonial focus and she is showered with water gathered from seven different wells or springs and infused with perfumed flowers. The bathing or showering with water is to purify both the parents to be and the baby. The mother to be changes her ceremonial batik garment or sarong seven times during the ceremony. Each batik pattern has a different meaning and the last one is the most significant, representing a safe delivery and ongoing love and happiness for the family.