get married in Thailand

[Rooster]

Social Development and Human Security Minister Watana Muangsook is getting in trouble with Women's Rights Activists for suggesting old Thai practices like prostrating. In an attempt to promote Thai family unity and happy family, Watana wanting Thai women to practice polite Thai ways to show respect to their husbands. With his right intention, Minister Watana is bring stormed by modern Thai feminazis for suggesting prostration for wives to show respect to their husbands. Yes, this could be done in private. What is very wrong with this suggestion? Are old Thai tradition family practices so bad that these women are willing to destroy it? What are their suggestions for the improvement of Thai family unity and future for future Thai children to learn? We could not possibly be Thais if we do not practice Thai cultural traditions and practices. Have their men treated them so badly that they are willing to deny our culture and practices to our children? Have they learnt from their mistakes and ever examine what have gone wrongs with their relationships?

[Koh Samui Island Weddings]

Being married in a Civil ceremony - rather than a religious one - is the most requested type of marriage (as far as I know) in Thailand.

The process is very simple. What makes your marriage legal (both here and in your home country) is the marriage certificates. The ceremony can therefore be performed any way you wish - with the assistance of a Civil Celebrant.

Please let me know if you would like any further information.

Thanks and kind regards,

Jessica Holmes
Koh Samui Island Weddings Co. Ltd
16/9 Moo 3, Maenam
Koh Samui 84300
Ph +11 66 77 247 682
Email: kohsamuiweddings@hotmail.com
www.kohsamuiweddings.com (in construction)

[Zafrie]

I need help, I'm a Malaysian and I'm going to marry my British fiance in Thailand in February , how am I going about to do this?, My fiance will only be in Malaysia/Thailand for two weeks.

[JJ]

The reason it has to change and things cannot always stay the way they were centuries ago is that Thai people want to progress. They obviously do not want to stay at the life standard of former centuries, to that of a developing country, forever. The bathroom of ////// Rama V was poorer equipped than almost any of a European lower class person.
Prostrating is a personal cult. A gesture that should be, if so, performed toward god(s). In modern culture, humans treat each other as equal. Chinese have treated Mao with personal cult, North Coreans do so with Kim Yong Il, with terrible consequences. Particularly it put and puts them backwards in life standard tremendously. They only get cheated.

To put it simple, Thai have cars (Bangkok has too many). One cannot take everything from western cultures, pollute the environment considerably besides, and refuse to practise human rights and equal treatment of humans. In that sense, the often abused dowry system also needs to be abolished. Or do Thai people want to go back to the lifestyle centuries ago? Have a life expectancy of several decades less? Not have a cure for so many infectious diseases?