Thai Wedding Parties

[chanchao]

It seems there are exactly two kinds of wedding parties in Thailand:

* The hi-so wedding, most often in some hotel conference room where everyone tries to imitate the apparent standard set in the TV soap series.

* The village wedding, where pretty much everyone in and around the village comes to drink themselves silly.

Ok, I'm being a bit symplictic and negative, both varieties have their merits and drawbacks.

Which do you prefer (to attend)? And what is the funnest thing you've seen/done at wedding parties?

I'm looking for some ideas here, I attended a wedding just yesterday and it sucked beyond belief... It went like this:

1. 7:00pm guests enter and get their picture taken with the couple. Hotel provided some ice sculpture that served no apparent purpose.

2. Guests donate money in an envelope which went into a big heart-shaped box. For this they received a useless heart-shaped key-chain trinket.

2b: Old and new photos of the couple were shown on a projector.

3. Some dude played keyboard while a singer imitated strangling a cat

4. Couple cut the 5 storey wedding cake

5. 7:30 Buffet dinner. Nice food I have to admit, this was the highlight

6. Everybody stuffed themselves. Cake was incredibly bad even by Thai cake standards, and that's saying something.

7. 8:15pm: Some family and employers of the couple came on stage and said nice things about the couple. Yawn.

8. 8:45pm: Everybody left.

Major yawn... This was not really an event to remember, even though obviously a lot of money was spent! If it's like this I'd really prefer the village wedding: a couple of bottles of 100 Pipers is cheaper than hotel conference rooms and ice-sculptures, and Thais do a better Larb than they do cake!

Suggestions? I need inspiration!!!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

[phuketrichard]

I have been to both over the years and the ones in the hotels were as you said a real,bore/drag. village ones were a lot more fun

Tomorrow will be my first Moslem wedding held in the village. That should be interesting!!!

[PvtDick]

I went to a lo-so wedding many years ago that was absolutely wild! The couple invited a katoey singing and dancing troop that eventually stripped topless and shoved their tits the faces of all the male guests (who were all wasted by that time). Swear to God.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

It seems there are exactly two kinds of wedding parties in Thailand:

* The hi-so wedding, most often in some hotel conference room where everyone tries to imitate the apparent standard set in the TV soap series.

* The village wedding, where pretty much everyone in and around the village comes to drink themselves silly.

Ok, I'm being a bit symplictic and negative, both varieties have their merits and drawbacks.

Which do you prefer (to attend)? And what is the funnest thing you've seen/done at wedding parties?

I'm looking for some ideas here, I attended a wedding just yesterday and it sucked beyond belief... It went like this:

1. 7:00pm guests enter and get their picture taken with the couple. Hotel provided some ice sculpture that served no apparent purpose.

2. Guests donate money in an envelope which went into a big heart-shaped box. For this they received a useless heart-shaped key-chain trinket.

2b: Old and new photos of the couple were shown on a projector.

3. Some dude played keyboard while a singer imitated strangling a cat

4. Couple cut the 5 storey wedding cake

5. 7:30 Buffet dinner. Nice food I have to admit, this was the highlight

6. Everybody stuffed themselves. Cake was incredibly bad even by Thai cake standards, and that's saying something.

7. 8:15pm: Some family and employers of the couple came on stage and said nice things about the couple. Yawn.

8. 8:45pm: Everybody left.

Major yawn... This was not really an event to remember, even though obviously a lot of money was spent! If it's like this I'd really prefer the village wedding: a couple of bottles of 100 Pipers is cheaper than hotel conference rooms and ice-sculptures, and Thais do a better Larb than they do cake!

Suggestions? I need inspiration!!!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

I went to an early Sunday religious ceremony and there was the inevitable bulk food and drink. The reception was Sunday evening, and the male guests have carried on drinking all day ( to the angst of their womenfolk ) by the the time evening arrived, the guys were all as pissed as parrots. In a strange way it was a funny night because the groom had had more than his share of spiritous beverage as well.

[shopgurl]

One of the most interesting and exciting weddings I've attended would have to be my best friend's wedding, which was a semi-traditional Indian wedding. It was a week long celebration of singing and dancing where all guests had a part in joining in with the festivities, certainly something I remember till this day. It was also nice to see everyone dressed in traditional Indian attire, makes you wonder why Thais couldn't do the same thing?

[elsie]

I have to admit a reception held at a hotel is dead boring. It's just exactly the same. Only different faces on the stage. And different gown I put on - which I can hardly breathe in. Last time I went to my mate's wedding. There was nothing on the projector. And everyone at my table was asking what is wrong with them.. where is a bloody video?

I also find the speech part most boring. I always had to sip my wine continuously to stay awake. Only once that nobody was making a speech was at my cousin's, when a Royal family member came. Jolly good. But then, I couldn't waltz around the ballroom either. Oh well, guess we can't have everything.

[Jeff Jarvis]

It seems there are exactly two kinds of wedding parties in Thailand:

* The hi-so wedding, most often in some hotel conference room where everyone tries to imitate the apparent standard set in the TV soap series.

* The village wedding, where pretty much everyone in and around the village comes to drink themselves silly.

Ok, I'm being a bit symplictic and negative, both varieties have their merits and drawbacks.

Which do you prefer (to attend)? And what is the funnest thing you've seen/done at wedding parties?

I'm looking for some ideas here, I attended a wedding just yesterday and it sucked beyond belief... It went like this:

1. 7:00pm guests enter and get their picture taken with the couple. Hotel provided some ice sculpture that served no apparent purpose.

2. Guests donate money in an envelope which went into a big heart-shaped box. For this they received a useless heart-shaped key-chain trinket.

2b: Old and new photos of the couple were shown on a projector.

3. Some dude played keyboard while a singer imitated strangling a cat

4. Couple cut the 5 storey wedding cake

5. 7:30 Buffet dinner. Nice food I have to admit, this was the highlight

6. Everybody stuffed themselves. Cake was incredibly bad even by Thai cake standards, and that's saying something.

7. 8:15pm: Some family and employers of the couple came on stage and said nice things about the couple. Yawn.

8. 8:45pm: Everybody left.

Major yawn... This was not really an event to remember, even though obviously a lot of money was spent! If it's like this I'd really prefer the village wedding: a couple of bottles of 100 Pipers is cheaper than hotel conference rooms and ice-sculptures, and Thais do a better Larb than they do cake!

Suggestions? I need inspiration!!!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

Hey, that sounds like my wedding day.... Some hi-so fellow, I never had met, gave a talk about what a nice guy I am ....

[chanchao]

> nice to see everyone dressed in traditional Indian attire,

> makes you wonder why Thais couldn't do the same thing?

Well, they don't do it that way on TV. So they all try to dress like they see the stars do at gala parties.

.........sob........ Beginning to wonder if this is another drawback of marrying a middle/upper class girl: you can't have a fun wedding?

Cheers,

Chanchao

[shopgurl]

The "preconditioned Thai wedding" is usually of this format.....and the sole reason is not for the benefit of the couple getting married but for the "face" of the family whether hi-so or low-so. It's understandable in the case of families that revolve around the family business and therefore have many contacts that are needed to be invited so that business relations will stay intact.

I often really wonder are the couple happy with a bunch of people they have no faintest idea who the ###### they are congratulating them but actually are there just for the food???

Chanchao, go with a wedding YOU&YOUR SPECIAL SOMEONE want, don't comply with society's set wedding party conditions that are ludicrous and just plain BORING, IMHO.

[Totster]

It seems there are exactly two kinds of wedding parties in Thailand:

* The hi-so wedding, most often in some hotel conference room where everyone tries to imitate the apparent standard set in the TV soap series.

* The village wedding, where pretty much everyone in and around the village comes to drink themselves silly.

Ok, I'm being a bit symplictic and negative, both varieties have their merits and drawbacks.

Which do you prefer (to attend)? And what is the funnest thing you've seen/done at wedding parties?

I'm looking for some ideas here, I attended a wedding just yesterday and it sucked beyond belief... It went like this:

1. 7:00pm guests enter and get their picture taken with the couple. Hotel provided some ice sculpture that served no apparent purpose.

2. Guests donate money in an envelope which went into a big heart-shaped box. For this they received a useless heart-shaped key-chain trinket.

2b: Old and new photos of the couple were shown on a projector.

3. Some dude played keyboard while a singer imitated strangling a cat

4. Couple cut the 5 storey wedding cake

5. 7:30 Buffet dinner. Nice food I have to admit, this was the highlight

6. Everybody stuffed themselves. Cake was incredibly bad even by Thai cake standards, and that's saying something.

7. 8:15pm: Some family and employers of the couple came on stage and said nice things about the couple. Yawn.

8. 8:45pm: Everybody left.

Major yawn... This was not really an event to remember, even though obviously a lot of money was spent! If it's like this I'd really prefer the village wedding: a couple of bottles of 100 Pipers is cheaper than hotel conference rooms and ice-sculptures, and Thais do a better Larb than they do cake!

Suggestions? I need inspiration!!!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

This sounds exactly like a wedding I went to in Hong Kong, maybe it is a commom format for Asian weddings.

Me... I like a good knees up, you know drinking and dancing

totster

[Johpa]

Upper class Thai hotel style weddings.......Hate it! For me, the worst part is having to endure the speeches, the very long boring speeches endlessly wishing good luck upon the couple.

I will take a village wedding where there are few speeches, large amounts of food, and copious amounts of drink. I can watch the old guys drink themselves into oblivion, I can watch the older aunties (khun paas) drink themselves into a giggling horde, and watch the young folk flirting freely in an otherwise conservative environment. Of course these same conditions hold for a village funeral also.

[Padkapow Guy]

The kneeling down on the knee's all the time takes the fun right out of it for me. But usually the alcohol brings me right back.

next time you are ask to give a speech at a wedding I have a classic for everyone to use. " may all your up's and down's be between the sheets "

[IBMOPERATIONS]

Oh!...I just read that and it was my wedding in total!...except I really enjoyed it!...loved meeting all the relatives, marvelled at the fab ice sculpture, enjoyed the food, laughed at the speaches, munched my way through waay too much cake, got nervous speaking in front of 150 relatives,got face ache smiling for hundreds of photos, had a great night getting pissed in the huge hotel bedroom, couldn't believe how cheap the whole thing was and was amazed when I counted all the money.

Compared to a £20,000 Uk wedding it was top draw!

What are you people complaining about?...are you all serial wedding goers?

I'd recommend a 'society' Thai wedding to anyone!

[elsie]

are you all serial wedding goers?

Aye, quite. Never made it up on the stage - getting nervous and everything - yet. Only attend.

[Khutan]

I'd recommend a 'society' Thai wedding to anyone!

Umm IBMOPS, does that stand for "Institute of Broken Marraiges"?

Ok, I will have my village wedding any day, great fun so get drunk all day and carry on like a fool. My highlight was killing the crap Issan music and playing Khe Sanh as loud as the "Ladio" would play. So it was the Yobbo wedding with the Traditional trappings.

[Debaryman101]

It seems there are exactly two kinds of wedding parties in Thailand:

* The hi-so wedding, most often in some hotel conference room where everyone tries to imitate the apparent standard set in the TV soap series.

* The village wedding, where pretty much everyone in and around the village comes to drink themselves silly.

Ok, I'm being a bit symplictic and negative, both varieties have their merits and drawbacks.

Which do you prefer (to attend)? And what is the funnest thing you've seen/done at wedding parties?

I'm looking for some ideas here, I attended a wedding just yesterday and it sucked beyond belief... It went like this:

1. 7:00pm guests enter and get their picture taken with the couple. Hotel provided some ice sculpture that served no apparent purpose.

2. Guests donate money in an envelope which went into a big heart-shaped box. For this they received a useless heart-shaped key-chain trinket.

2b: Old and new photos of the couple were shown on a projector.

3. Some dude played keyboard while a singer imitated strangling a cat

4. Couple cut the 5 storey wedding cake

5. 7:30 Buffet dinner. Nice food I have to admit, this was the highlight

6. Everybody stuffed themselves. Cake was incredibly bad even by Thai cake standards, and that's saying something.

7. 8:15pm: Some family and employers of the couple came on stage and said nice things about the couple. Yawn.

8. 8:45pm: Everybody left.

Major yawn... This was not really an event to remember, even though obviously a lot of money was spent! If it's like this I'd really prefer the village wedding: a couple of bottles of 100 Pipers is cheaper than hotel conference rooms and ice-sculptures, and Thais do a better Larb than they do cake!

Suggestions? I need inspiration!!!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

It seems there are exactly two kinds of wedding parties in Thailand:

* The hi-so wedding, most often in some hotel conference room where everyone tries to imitate the apparent standard set in the TV soap series.

* The village wedding, where pretty much everyone in and around the village comes to drink themselves silly.

Ok, I'm being a bit symplictic and negative, both varieties have their merits and drawbacks.

Which do you prefer (to attend)?  And what is the funnest thing you've seen/done at wedding parties? 

I'm looking for some ideas here, I attended a wedding just yesterday and it sucked beyond belief...  It went like this:

1.  7:00pm  guests enter and get their picture taken with the couple. Hotel provided some  ice sculpture that served no apparent purpose.

2. Guests donate money in an envelope which went into a big heart-shaped box. For this they received a useless heart-shaped key-chain trinket.

2b: Old and new photos of the couple were shown on a projector.

3. Some dude played keyboard while a singer imitated strangling a cat

4. Couple cut the 5 storey wedding cake

5. 7:30 Buffet dinner.  Nice food I have to admit, this was the highlight

6. Everybody stuffed themselves.  Cake was incredibly bad even by Thai cake standards, and that's saying something.

7. 8:15pm: Some family and employers of the couple came on stage and said nice things about the couple.  Yawn.

8. 8:45pm:  Everybody left.

Major yawn...  This was not really an event to remember, even though obviously a lot of money was spent!  If it's like this I'd really prefer the village wedding: a couple of bottles of 100 Pipers is cheaper than hotel conference rooms and ice-sculptures, and Thais do a better Larb than they do cake!

Suggestions?  I need inspiration!!!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

It seems there are exactly two kinds of wedding parties in Thailand:

* The hi-so wedding, most often in some hotel conference room where everyone tries to imitate the apparent standard set in the TV soap series.

* The village wedding, where pretty much everyone in and around the village comes to drink themselves silly.

Ok, I'm being a bit symplictic and negative, both varieties have their merits and drawbacks.

Which do you prefer (to attend)?  And what is the funnest thing you've seen/done at wedding parties? 

I'm looking for some ideas here, I attended a wedding just yesterday and it sucked beyond belief...  It went like this:

1.  7:00pm  guests enter and get their picture taken with the couple. Hotel provided some  ice sculpture that served no apparent purpose.

2. Guests donate money in an envelope which went into a big heart-shaped box. For this they received a useless heart-shaped key-chain trinket.

2b: Old and new photos of the couple were shown on a projector.

3. Some dude played keyboard while a singer imitated strangling a cat

4. Couple cut the 5 storey wedding cake

5. 7:30 Buffet dinner.  Nice food I have to admit, this was the highlight

6. Everybody stuffed themselves.  Cake was incredibly bad even by Thai cake standards, and that's saying something.

7. 8:15pm: Some family and employers of the couple came on stage and said nice things about the couple.  Yawn.

8. 8:45pm:  Everybody left.

Major yawn...  This was not really an event to remember, even though obviously a lot of money was spent!  If it's like this I'd really prefer the village wedding: a couple of bottles of 100 Pipers is cheaper than hotel conference rooms and ice-sculptures, and Thais do a better Larb than they do cake!

Suggestions?  I need inspiration!!!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

My wedding was the same, Can I ask Why u need the info for? Are you getting married? I am Thai American I have been to American weddings in the states that were good and also some were more boring than the one you attended.

Maybe next time just block out what you are used to and just enjoy yourself

remember you only live once

[Pepe']

i have been to both and definitely had more fun at the village weddings...

[Debaryman101]

Sorry about posting the qoute three times, Please don't hurt me too much thanks