Hippie wedding

Tuesday evening we went to a unique wedding held just north of here near Caesarea. This was the wedding of the daughter of friends of ours from Netanya. They are a conventional conservative religious couple, whose younger daughter, beautiful and bright, brought up in Israel, went off to Goa in India, as many young Israelis do, and there met a Dutch fellow. She lived with him there for many years, and had a daughter with him. They moved a few years ago to Crete, where he bought a house in a remote area, and then he returned to Goa, leaving her there.
She evidently didn't like this arrangement, so she returned to Israel, and it took her some time to find her way and to start earning her own living. She was married last night to a guy with three children of his own. Needless to say her parents are very happy.
The wedding was held on a farm literally in the middle of nowhere. We had to drive down an unpaved path for about a mile, twisting and turning through the countryside, until we found the place. Several people live on an abandoned farm and they have organized this wedding facility as a side-line. The place was very rural, most of it covered by open-sided tents. The food was vegetarian, and the band was very funky, playing a kind of fusion of Sephardic-klezmer-Arab and Jazz music, which was very Israeli. There were dozens of kids running around and the women and some of the men had long flowing hair and were dressed in flowing robes, and most of the kids and some of the adults had no shoes, generally giving a hippie atmosphere. We felt very square.
The actual wedding ceremony was conventional, but a kind of hippie-rabbi officiated. He was an old man with long gray hair wearing a beret and what appeared to be Indian clothes. This was not your average wedding, but nevertheless, it was very Israeli, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.