Canadian Man Weds Roi Et Woman, Offers Dowry Worth Bt100 Million

[BookMan]

Well, that has certainly raised the expectations of brides to be in Roi Et

What if there husbands are not in roi et ?

What do you suggest?

[daboyz1]

I wonder how much the Thai boyfriend got out of this?

[SteveReilly]

Good for her! And good of him to stress education to a loved one

[Phronesis]

I wonder if the sin sot was written off as a business expense for tax purposes?

[Phronesis]

I wonder if one of the sub clauses on the sin sot was signing a prenup.

[bangkapi]

Now her relatives can start their own taxi fleet in Bangkok.

[itchybum]

Well, that has certainly raised the expectations of brides to be in Roi Et

What if there husbands are not in roi et ?

What do you suggest?

A hens night?

[canuckamuck]

I got mine for free...

And have been paying ever since

[bangkokrick]

Bet he don't reach 55

[CTO]

Plenty of jokes come to mind, but if they've been together for 9 years, that's better than the average in Canada for marriages I suspect.

Good on her for working on her education.

Mind you I do support Sin Sot, I paid 5000 baht and 2 chickens for my wife, and she was worth every bit of it!

[Sunderland]

Good for her and her family.

The bloke is daft as a brush.

[GeorgeO]

Obviously well matched and after so many years,why not? happy for her and happy for him, i am sure he is prepared to lose it, if it came to that! good luck.

Loose it?

I guess it will all be booked as expenses, business loss, investments gone wrong, whatever.

Anyway, I wish them all kinds of happiness, luck, good fortune (?), health, and prosperity.

No, as the respondent stated ... lose it...!!

[sirchai]

What Mental Institution was he at in farang land. They did a good job. ..................

They probably haven't noticed he is missing....

Electro shocks at Ubon Ratchathani's See Maha Poo really did a good job.-wife wants a new car, a house and a giraffe now..-

[ThaiLife]

The Happy Couple

[jbrain]

The Happy Couple

Is that cold sweat on his forehead?

[sirchai]

Redekop and Sunantha met in a Bangkok restaurant where Sunantha was working as a waitress.

Any chance it was the " No Hands " restaurant she was working ?

No hands and you never know who's under the table. Gotta love this one....

[SlyAnimal]

Actually my gf was telling me about this earlier today when she read the thai version, and I think that although the newspapers haven't necessarily exaggerated, it's not as much as what people think.

In that, the actual gold + money make up around 5-6 million THB or there abouts.

The land is most of what makes up the value, and I'd say that he's probably just transferring that from being in a company name, or other type of asset protection/holding service, to being in her name.

I don't know that for sure of course, he might have decided to buy 6x random houses and 15 acres of land just for his wedding, but it'd seem logical that he'd have land which he currently owns but through a complex structure, instead simply transferred to her to ease up the risk of being caught by someone closing the loop hole through which he currently owns the land.

[transam]

Can't be bothered reading the topic, anyway I'll marry him for 100 million, no doubt I'll need to join a queue

Yes, bugger off and get a ticket number for the queue... ............................................

[Kerryd]

I told a g/f that because I was a farang, she had to pay sin sod for me ! I told her I wouldn't settle for anything less than 2 kwai (1 male, 1 female).

She dumped me as she thought she'd be the one cleaning up after the buffalo in (what would have been) our house !

(If I asked the same thing in Isaan, I'd probably have a stampede of buffalo through my front door ! Get the BBQ going !)

[asdecas]

Have to say, I lived in Bangkok for thirteen years from the mid-eighties, I never heard of this sin sot nonsense. Only in the last few years has it raised its profile. Why could that be?

[itchybum]

Plenty of jokes come to mind, but if they've been together for 9 years, that's better than the average in Canada for marriages I suspect.

Good on her for working on her education.

Mind you I do support Sin Sot, I paid 5000 baht and 2 chickens for my wife, and she was worth every bit of it!

What kind of chickens were they and alive or dead?

[Chicken George]

Maybe he wants her to just go away? That will make her.. If he does and she does'nt what next?

[rsokolowski]

100 Million, wow now all Thai familys will expect this as they all know how rich us farangs are:cheesy:

If they do they will have a very rude awakening, and the number of marriages to farangs occurring in Thailand will plummet. For 100 million baht I would definitely be renting not buying.

[NeverSure]

Just another example that executives are overpaid

He is an "executive at Chevron Thailand and the owner of a petroleum company in Ireland..."

When you own your own petroleum company you may pay yourself as much as you earn. Some people manage to stick their necks out and make a lot of money. IMHO they are entitled to do with it as they wish.

Jealousy should be kept quiet.

I think, if the story is true and not just for show, that the guy's an idiot. I just hope he has more where that came from when the whole deal winds up in his fanny sideways.

[Baerboxer]

Good for her and her family.

The bloke is daft as a brush.

Something a tight miserable Wearsider would say!

We don't know how rich he is - maybe just small change to him.

After 9 years, in which they've both worked hard, good luck to'em. Top bloke and shows what great guys most Canadians are.

[stoli]

Price of gas just increased on this news. She wants to thank the public for providing for her dowry.

[WEBLEDINK]

WE had a shot gun wedding and have to give all our bottom land in Tennessee for our toothless wives So what?!!!

[horsewell]

Obviously, this guy is an outlier. He could probably drop a few million just on a weekend away, so, 100mil was probably just a weeks work, at the most. His now wife has been spending the last 9 years getting educated and most probably a shining example of a person. She has probably been a great support for him over the years and the money that he gave to her parents would have been worth every satang even if the marriage doesn't last a few hours. I don't think we will hear anything more over it because, you would think, after 9 years they would have a pretty good idea of what they are both about together. Good luck to them.

[maprao]

What an absolute pl**ker! News like this does not get out unless leaked. Many very rich Thai people have done this. This was leaked by someone in Issan wanting to gain the publicity and face.

I wonder if she has flat feet and splayed toes as most farmers daughters have

I wish them good luck. Amazing Thailand.

[ALFREDO]

100 million baht; wow, that is crazy. Especially for a 37 year old farmers daughter. Oh well up to him

He is probably a Member here on ThaiVisa?