A wedding.

**stroller** · 23-02-2007, 07:44 PM

A fair crowd gathered inside, where the ceremony was started with presenting the 4 baht and 2 saleung of gold, which I missed.

I was alerted when the monks were positioned:

**stroller** · 23-02-2007, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by Fabian

Do you know how much the rent for the bus was?

20k there and back.

**Fabian** · 23-02-2007, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by stroller

Unlike around here, up North, the majority of folks from surrounding villages didn't turn up for freebies:

What a posh wedding, they even had chairs.

**Marmite the Dog** · 23-02-2007, 08:43 PM

Lets have a picture of the two mugs who got married then.

**Thetyim** · 23-02-2007, 09:27 PM

**stroller** · 24-02-2007, 09:03 AM

Presenting gift packages to the monks:

Then it's "Soo Fun", an elder speaks some text with wellwishes. The ritual "Pai See" consists of a 3-storey table ornated with flowers, candles, a ritual bowl with food and the bundled cotton strings for the next step.

**stroller** · 24-02-2007, 09:07 AM

Followed by "Mat Mue", first the parents, then relatives and friends tie handspun cotton strings to the wrists of the newly married:

A thank-you present from the couple:

**stroller** · 25-02-2007, 10:30 PM

Blessed water is scooped from a bowl into a little ornate shell vessel, handed to the well-wisher who will pour it over the hands of the couple, who are connected by a cottonstring:

**stroller** · 25-02-2007, 10:37 PM

The party outside continues, by now the locals and Northern folks have segregated, the Northerners celebrating with their Lao Khao, sticky rice and miang, the Pachinburians with imported Scotch and roast chicken.

As a well-travelled sort of guy I had the distinct advantage of not attempting to blabbel to anyone in my local dialect and expect everyone to understand, so I oscillated between the 2, though I fitted in better with the young mates of the groom, who had the sense of choosing some Bon Jovi as a rather prominent background music.

**stroller** · 25-02-2007, 10:38 PM

As evening approached, we were being driven to a classy Chinese restaurant in town. But got to wait for our driver first:

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 02:54 PM

The professional photo-dude:

The happy family in front of the res:

Finally on to the good part of the evening:

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 02:58 PM

The dining hall:

**Marmite the Dog** · 26-02-2007, 03:03 PM

^ That was a posh do. Indoors! Don't tell me they had aircon as well, or I'll die!!

**mad_dog** · 26-02-2007, 03:08 PM

I'm in PP at the moment and the hotel across the road from me is having a wedding ...event... Two days of chanting and wailing via a massive feedback screaching fucking PA system....So far How much does an AK 47 set you back in PP?

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 03:29 PM

Les hors d'euvres:

Delicious, some proper food for a change.
Later on:

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 03:37 PM

Local talent:

...and the obligatory katoy:

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 05:20 PM

Time for some speeches to be held, which thankfully were short and volume wasn't turned to a level which makes the plates vibrate.

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 05:23 PM

A song or 2 of karaoke...

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 05:26 PM

This is the position I aspire for, the old lady owner watching, contently counting the income as dish after dish is carried from the kitchen to the tables, chewing betel with fresh supplies in the basket near her:

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 05:28 PM

The heart is where the guests put the envelopes with the money. The cost of the event was more than covered.

**Fabian** · 26-02-2007, 05:39 PM

The bride is a bit of the big side.

**stroller** · 26-02-2007, 05:47 PM

...and short. Have you noticed the platforms?

**HermantheGerman** · 27-02-2007, 07:10 PM

I don't mean to be rude Stroller, but you sound a bit like a Party-Pooper.
Chai yen yen.

Anyway, the wedding seems to have the same ritual as ours. I guess they must have some kind of ISO standard in Thailand.
The hardest part at my wedding was the sitting down in front of the monks.
Jeeeesus Christ..... my legs and back was hurting like hell. Everytime the monks stopped whining I thought, "Thank God that's it", but then they started again and again and again......

**stroller** · 27-02-2007, 08:30 PM

I don't mean to be rude Stroller, but you sound a bit like a Party-Pooper.

Fair enough. But after I had hardly any sleep the night before and had been subjected to loud music for the entire day (no complaints about this), my mood was rapidly deteriorating from about 11pm onwards, hoping to get a little, if not comfortable, then at least quiet rest on the bus - I am an old dog, you know.

Anyway, the monks didn't stay long, which was commented on - you would have liked this.
Where was your wedding, also in the "Pak Glang"?

There are regional differences. I have a video of a wedding in the North, but the picture quality is much worse than the pics here, which aren't exactly the cutting edge of photography either.

**HermantheGerman** · 27-02-2007, 10:30 PM

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Anyway, the monks didn't stay long, which was commented on - you would have liked this.
Where was your wedding, also in the "Pak Glang"?

Our wedding was in Sathahip. The morning ceremony (with monks, tying the ribbon arround the wrist, sinsot

, parade etc.) was at my wifes parents house.
The evening ceremony (collecting the cash

, greeting every guest, making a speech etc.) was at a restaurant inside the Sathahip Naval Base.

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