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Chorus of wedding bells ring in Valentine's Day
THE SUNDAY NATION

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BANGKOK: -- LOVE was in the air yesterday with many lovebirds celebrating Valentine's Day by getting married in style - be it on a balloon, on an elephant's back, at a Bangkok event raining prizes, or in an open coffin.

In Nonthaburi's Bang Kruay district, Wat Takien in Tambon Bang Khuwiang hosted a wedding ceremony for 10 Thai couples that required each couple to lie in an open coffin while four monks recited funeral prayers for five minutes.

Abbot Phra Khru Samutsa-ngob said the rite was in accordance with the Thai saying "ruam hor long long" ("together in life and in death") - and was held for the second year as a blessing for couples to have a long-lasting marriage.

The monk said it also emphasised that life and death were two sides of the same coin.

In Bangkok, 46 district offices wedded 2,897 couples - 677 couples more than during the last Valentine's Day.

Bang Rak District Office, with the auspicious name "Village of Love", was the most popular location (737 couples), followed by Phasi Charoen (175), Lak Si (141), and Bang Seu (129).

Among the lucky couples who won a gold marriage certificate at Bang Rak was company worker Pasit Seubsuwong, 36, and his bride Supaji Chanasit, also 36.

They said it was a good way to start their married life together.

Some couples travelled far to be married at Bang Rak.

Company worker Abidine Hayipi and his bride Sorbariya Sudeng came all the way from the southernmost province of Yala, before returning home the same day.

Some foreigners also wedded at Bang Rak, including American Richard Meader and his Maha Sarakham girlfriend Pornjitra Mongkhon.

At Chon Buri's Suan Nong Nuch tourist attraction, 79 couples signed marriage certificates on the back of elephants, while 14 couples registered their unions in a balloon in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai district, and 57 couples married in a ceremony in the Hala Bala Wildlife Sanctuary in Narathiwat's Waeng district while some 1,000 guests looked on.

As love knows no borders, Tak joined with Myanmar's Myawaddy province to host the first bilateral Valentine's Day celebration to wed 23 Myanmar couples and 17 Thai couples at the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge.

In Chiang Mai's Muang district, the Mplus Foundation led 11 same-sex couples in a symbolic wedding parade at the Tha Phae Gate to campaign for making same-sex marriages legal.

In keeping with the day's theme, Khon Kaen Highway Police sent roses to speeding motorists with a note saying "We arrest you out of love" along with traffic tickets via the post.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Chorus-of-wedding-bells-ring-in-Valentines-Day-30254106.html

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-- The Nation 2015-02-15

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Marriage is like a funeral, you slip that ring on and sex dries up, the bitching moaning and groaning begins 24/7 and going to a footy game, fishing or catching up with mates is now confined to reminiscing. Life as you knew it is now dead and if you leave the toilet sear up your history as well. May as well have the marriage, last rites and the funeral all in one as it saves time and money.

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Marriage is like a funeral, you slip that ring on and sex dries up, the bitching moaning and groaning begins 24/7 and going to a footy game, fishing or catching up with mates is now confined to reminiscing. Life as you knew it is now dead and if you leave the toilet sear up your history as well. May as well have the marriage, last rites and the funeral all in one as it saves time and money.

and a very good morning to you as well, woke up full of the joys of spring today, I see :-)
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Marriage is like a funeral, you slip that ring on and sex dries up, the bitching moaning and groaning begins 24/7 and going to a footy game, fishing or catching up with mates is now confined to reminiscing. Life as you knew it is now dead and if you leave the toilet sear up your history as well. May as well have the marriage, last rites and the funeral all in one as it saves time and money.

and a very good morning to you as well, woke up full of the joys of spring today, I see :-)
yep being dragged off to the mother in laws after I made plans to watch the cricket with mates.

Man up mate! Thought you Aussies were some of the most fearless fighters in the world?

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Marriage is like a funeral, you slip that ring on and sex dries up, the bitching moaning and groaning begins 24/7 and going to a footy game, fishing or catching up with mates is now confined to reminiscing. Life as you knew it is now dead and if you leave the toilet sear up your history as well. May as well have the marriage, last rites and the funeral all in one as it saves time and money.

and a very good morning to you as well, woke up full of the joys of spring today, I see :-)
yep being dragged off to the mother in laws after I made plans to watch the cricket with mates.

And Didn't we win well Chooka

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