Celebrate your love in an unforgettable Thai wedding ceremony with graceful Siamese rituals. It's a feast for the senses: fragrant incense and jasmine garlands, gentle drums accompanying the procession, colourful flowers adorning the venue, and sprinkles of water with the traditional blessings.
Suggested sequence of the wedding ceremony:
- The ceremony officially begins as the monks arrive at the wedding venue
- The guests are gracefully led in procession to the wedding venue by the long drum parade
- The bride and the groom's closest friends, family and well-wishers greet the couple
- Fragrant neck garlands are offered to the couple. The groom presents the bridal
- bouquet to the bride
- The bride and groom are invited to light the candles and incense sticks
- In a peaceful and serene atmosphere, the Buddhist monks commence the blessing
- ceremony
- Symbol of this new bound, the holy thread is placed over the newlyweds head while
- their forehead is marked with powder praising for good luck and lifelong prosperity
- After offering the Sung-katarn to the Buddhist monks, the couple and all guests are blessed with a final trickle of holy water as the wedding ceremony comes to an end
- Bearing witness to the start of the couple's new life, all attending guests pour scented holy water over the newlyweds' hands and wish them well for their future together
- Cake cutting and toasting this memorable day
Approximate duration of the wedding ceremony: 2 hours