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| Home > Wedding in other countries > Thai Wedding
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| | Thai Wedding:
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 The Thai wedding ceremony is held in a beautiful and sacred way. Astrologers are consulted before in order to find out if the stars of those to be married are compatible and if so what should be the auspicious day and time for the ceremony. But mostly the ceremony is held in August which is considered as the most auspicious month for wedding.
Usually in the countryside, a marriage takes place at the age of 20 while in the city this maybe late, up to 28 - 35. This depends on the readiness of the persons who want to enter into marriage. At the same time, nowadays most young people choose their own marriage partners while arranged marriage is very rare.
The most interresting part of the wedding ceremony is a procession of offering items as relatives and friends of the groom dance their way to the house of the bride with their hands full of offering.
 The engagement ceremony must take place before the wedding; however, some couples may prefer to hold the engagement and wedding ceremony on the same day as a means of saving money. The engagement ceremony is usually done through the offering of an engagement ring to the girl while the wedding cremony will be incomplete without the offering of the money to be given to the bride`s parents by the groom`s parents of the amount they demand.
The wedding ceremony begins in the morning with the chanting of monks and then the couple and relatives offer food to the monks who, after their meal, will chant again while the senior monk will bless the couple and the whole gathering with holy water before they go back to the temple.
After the dinner reception, the last ceremony to be performed is the sending-off of the bride and groom to the room specially arranged with the decoration of roses. The ceremony will usually be guided by the elder villager and eventually, the ceremony ends here.
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