If girls married before there is no need to have a second village party and/or dowry. Some girls still want dowry second time but the party is not neccessary,
Normally both money and gold is used for the dowry.
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Originally Posted by Latino4life
I came close to getting married during my last trip   but we never had the time to go to Bangkok (my embassy) and get a ducument needed for this. Nevertheless we did talk about the expences and she told me her parents didn't want any money (I think this is what you call "Sin Sot"??) anyway, as far as she told me, her parents were just happy I would stay with her and take care of her... I did offer my self to pay a little something since I read it's tradition and I read that thai men pay 10K but farangs pay about 30-50K so that's what I offered. She told me that a ceremony/party in her village would be quite expensive so that a small party in Phuket for her family (4 members) and 2 of her friends in a restaurang would be much better but not even that was necessary. In other words I would just have gotten away with just the marriage registration 
Now that I read some of the post in this thread it made me wonder thou... We never talked about the gold thing 5555555  |