Weddings in Thailand, Buddhist & Christian ceremonies
| country: | Thailand |
| location: | Northern Thailand |
| departures: | Our Chang Mai weddings service is totally customizable to meet your requirements and taste |
| price: | From Baht 39000 - Baht 119999 (approx £625 - £1920) (1 day) excluding flights. Full price information available here |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
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Chiang Mai weddings: Buddhist & Christian ceremonies
A traditional northern Thai wedding is a truly romantic option to a high stress wedding back home. It is however not the normal tourist destination weddings or 'Thai Theme' weddings which are offered at many resorts in Thailand and around the world. We specialize in offering culturally correct traditional northern Thai weddings (or 'Lanna' weddings). Lanna weddings are known throughout Thailand as the most romantic and spiritual weddings in Thailand, having an exotic and romantic flair to them.
Our Chiang Mai weddings are a unique way to experience the beauty and generosity of the culture of Northern Thailand and its people - a truly unique way to experience a "wedding abroad".
All of Thailand has their version of the marriage ceremony where you truly do 'tie the knot'. It is a deeply spiritual ceremony for Buddhist and non Buddhists alike. If you choose to legally register your marriage locally it is easy with our help, it is also a legally accepted married in most all countries. A destination wedding in Chiang Mai is a great option if you wish to avoid the hassles and headaches of a traditional white wedding back home.
Many of our overseas couples have opted to have a very private wedding with just themselves and a few special people in attendance, leaving behind the problems and expectations that a wedding back home may have created. Choosing instead to enjoy the romance and spiritual experience together of a Thai wedding, starting a unique new life together as a happily married couple. Well other couples have opted to bring their whole family and lots of friends with them, to share the experience together, taking the opportunity to start their lives as married couple surrounded by loved ones, without the need to invite some people they may have had to invite back home if they had chosen to marry there.
Below are some examples of the Chiang Mai weddings we offer. Civil weddings such as for those that just need the marriage registration and Gay Weddings are also available.
We will arrange for your hair dresser to come to do your hair and makeup. We will provide all transport to and from wedding venue, provide the floral decorations, the bridal bouquet, and corsages for guests.
We offer live Traditional Lanna and Thai music played by a professional 5-6 piece group and a traditional northern Thai style wedding luncheon or dinner depending on chosen time of ceremony.We will also provide a professional wedding photographer and a CD of your wedding photos to take home and a video of your wedding can be arranged. We can also accompany you to the registrar to finalize marriage and provide a translation of the marriage certificate.
This is the most lavish Thai Buddhist wedding available, for the truly romantic and demanding. It is ideal for an exclusive wedding with from zero to twelve invited guests (easily expandable to 49 guests).
Our Royal Lanna wedding is designed around a wedding we provided for members of an old Lanna Royal family:
Your bride will be treated to a "Spa treatment" or traditional "Thai massage" the day before the wedding. We will also arrange for a manicure and pedicure for the bride and hair dresser services for on the wedding day for the bride. We can also provide traditional Thai wedding attire for bride and groom and Thai jewellery for bride.
The wedding day starts with morning offerings to the monks. You will be escorted to the morning market to select foods and flowers for the monks. You will receive a formal monk blessing at a temple by highly revered monks. The merit making of offering monks food in morning, birds and fish to release at the temple which is said to encourage good luck in the couple’s future.
After the knot tying ceremony, the Lanna evening wedding feast will include a selection of Traditional Thai ethnic dances preformed by a local Thai dance troupe. You will partake in setting off Traditional Fire balloons "KomLoi" to remove bad luck (May not possible in February March or April depending on fire hazard). The evening is capped off with a professional Thai fireworks display!
We can provide a professional photographer and a video photographer to provide a life time record. We normally provide an edited DVD of your Lanna Wedding. Wedding night accommodation for the newly weds can be at the wedding venue if desired.
On your first morning as married couple, we supply a very simple breakfast including a great selection of tropical fruits and epicurean delights, or what ever you prefer for breakfast. Newly weds receives Thai massages in the morning on the private balcony of their teak hideaway if desired.
A traditional northern Thai wedding is a truly romantic option to a high stress wedding back home. It is however not the normal tourist destination weddings or 'Thai Theme' weddings which are offered at many resorts in Thailand and around the world. We specialize in offering culturally correct traditional northern Thai weddings (or 'Lanna' weddings). Lanna weddings are known throughout Thailand as the most romantic and spiritual weddings in Thailand, having an exotic and romantic flair to them.
Our Chiang Mai weddings are a unique way to experience the beauty and generosity of the culture of Northern Thailand and its people - a truly unique way to experience a "wedding abroad".
All of Thailand has their version of the marriage ceremony where you truly do 'tie the knot'. It is a deeply spiritual ceremony for Buddhist and non Buddhists alike. If you choose to legally register your marriage locally it is easy with our help, it is also a legally accepted married in most all countries. A destination wedding in Chiang Mai is a great option if you wish to avoid the hassles and headaches of a traditional white wedding back home.
Many of our overseas couples have opted to have a very private wedding with just themselves and a few special people in attendance, leaving behind the problems and expectations that a wedding back home may have created. Choosing instead to enjoy the romance and spiritual experience together of a Thai wedding, starting a unique new life together as a happily married couple. Well other couples have opted to bring their whole family and lots of friends with them, to share the experience together, taking the opportunity to start their lives as married couple surrounded by loved ones, without the need to invite some people they may have had to invite back home if they had chosen to marry there.
Below are some examples of the Chiang Mai weddings we offer. Civil weddings such as for those that just need the marriage registration and Gay Weddings are also available.
Chiang Mai weddings: Rural Garden Christian Wedding
We offer you the most romantic Christian wedding in a splendid Thai tropical garden setting with a Royal Forest backdrop and a real Thai rural flavour. On arrive in Chiang Mai, we will arrange for you to meet your personal wedding planner get any final ideas you may have worked into the wedding. In Christian weddings you probably prefer to bring your own attire, but we can provide the use of Thai attire if desired. We will arrange for your hair dresser to come to do your hair and makeup. We will provide all transport to and from wedding venue, provide the floral decorations, the bridal bouquet, and corsages for guests. We offer live Traditional Lanna and Thai music played by a professional 5-6 piece group and a traditional northern Thai style wedding luncheon or dinner depending on chosen time of ceremony.We will also provide a professional wedding photographer and a CD of your wedding photos to take home and a video of your wedding can be arranged. We can also accompany you to the registrar to finalize marriage and provide a translation of the marriage certificate.
Chiang Mai weddings: Buddhist Royal northern wedding
This is the most lavish Thai Buddhist wedding available, for the truly romantic and demanding. It is ideal for an exclusive wedding with from zero to twelve invited guests (easily expandable to 49 guests). Our Royal Lanna wedding is designed around a wedding we provided for members of an old Lanna Royal family:
Your bride will be treated to a "Spa treatment" or traditional "Thai massage" the day before the wedding. We will also arrange for a manicure and pedicure for the bride and hair dresser services for on the wedding day for the bride. We can also provide traditional Thai wedding attire for bride and groom and Thai jewellery for bride.
The wedding day starts with morning offerings to the monks. You will be escorted to the morning market to select foods and flowers for the monks. You will receive a formal monk blessing at a temple by highly revered monks. The merit making of offering monks food in morning, birds and fish to release at the temple which is said to encourage good luck in the couple’s future.
After the knot tying ceremony, the Lanna evening wedding feast will include a selection of Traditional Thai ethnic dances preformed by a local Thai dance troupe. You will partake in setting off Traditional Fire balloons "KomLoi" to remove bad luck (May not possible in February March or April depending on fire hazard). The evening is capped off with a professional Thai fireworks display!We can provide a professional photographer and a video photographer to provide a life time record. We normally provide an edited DVD of your Lanna Wedding. Wedding night accommodation for the newly weds can be at the wedding venue if desired.
On your first morning as married couple, we supply a very simple breakfast including a great selection of tropical fruits and epicurean delights, or what ever you prefer for breakfast. Newly weds receives Thai massages in the morning on the private balcony of their teak hideaway if desired.
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how this holiday makes a difference
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We as a small business have always believed in helping and giving back to our community and have done so by helping promote and start several community based self help projects, from a small coffee company, tribal handicraft co-op, handicapped NGO, to a local reforestation projects in the area of our venue.
As part of our local community, we invite local elders to help and partake in our Buddhist weddings. They will not accept payment for such things, but they do receive a chance to enjoy some excellent food and entertainment as well as to be shown the respect that local culture bestows upon our elderly. It is so import to provide all people a sense of self worth and usefulness, thus keeping our culture alive in Thailand today. We also try to promote Thai culture, Thai music and dramatical arts by hiring local professionally trained musicians and dancers and other performers for our weddings. We recommend to our wedding guests great local producers and suppliers of local products like jewellery, wood carvings and silk and even assist in translating as often the best producers do not speak much English. We also tell them of non touristy markets and places to find the best deals. As well as great local restaurants where authentic local northern Thai cuisine may be found. We can also recommend some fun things to do like elephant ride, treks, mountain biking tours or even golf courses. Our property was an abandoned farm due to the fact the slash and burn style farming practises had left the soil commercially unusable. With hard work and good soil restoration and management techniques and lots of loving care, it has been reclaimed to the point of a garden paradise - wedding venue (Thanks mostly to our head gardener "Khun Sea"). An adjacent small organic orchard growing old style Thai fruits and some of the land being reforested in Thai golden teak trees and other trees for future generations to enjoy and manage are all part of our overall wedding venue. Even our wedding house is made from recycled teak and other woods from two old houses that were being torn down in favour of new concrete homes, so no new lumber was used in our main building. Our other buildings are made from mostly locally source materials like thatched roofing material or recycled tiles. We do use gray water to water part of our garden, we recycle all paper, old metal, plastic but it is normal here and viable economically too. Of course we compost organic waste what little have to help rebuild our soil. We also have mostly long life energy gas lighting or candles. We have air conditioning or fan if preferred but with our planting around the house we find a small micro climate developing and the need for air conditioning most of all the time. The local staff knows the importance of water and energy conservation good environmental practices as here we all traditionally try to live with nature and accept when we do not the price to pay is high. We employ 100% local staff from northern Thailand, most from the local area. We offer better than average wages and opportunities to all staff members. We have provided on the job training to all staff and sub suppliers on building professional skills in whatever area of employment they are in from gardeners to kitchen staff and even the drivers. We offer employment opportunities to those not usually able to find work such as a hearing impaired individual, as well as illiterate workers, single mothers and local Hill tribe people.  This is not to say the service one receives is not the best there is, but just the contrary, ensuring your service with genuine whole hearted enthusiasm and appreciation of you coming to our small corner of the world to marry, has helped make possible a better life for so many. Yet we feel we can offer you a unique and wonderful experience too, a perfect wedding. |
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