Jeff's Wedding

This is my friends names in Thai. Their names are Jeff and Korn! They got married on Sunday, December 2, 2007. These pics are of the traditional Thai wedding. It is a Buddist ceremony.



During the ceremony the older people pour water over the couples hands and offer a blessing to them. Most of the time it is a blessing of wealth, many children, good luck, and things like that. After the older people gave the blessing then the other people in this part of the ceremony could give a blessing. I was one of two foreigners, the other being the mother of the groom, and s I was asked to give a blessing. I was a bit nervous so I just went up, poured water over their hands and said congratulations! I was nervous!



This was at the reception! It is the bride and groom giving a piece of the cake to the mother of the groom and they also do it to the mother of the bride. They were so beautiful and I was glad to be there with them! All the ceremonies and traditions are totally different than a Christian wedding but it was interesting to learn about the culture.