In her travels through Thailand, Lost Girl Adrienne Supino was invited to a local wedding. At the ceremony she discovered the ins and outs of how Thai people tie the knot… ***** by Adrienne Supino I chose Thailand for the weddings. Well, that isn’t completely true. Yes, I wanted to go to a foreign wedding, but not just a foreign wedding. I also wanted to go to a foreign funeral, foreign birthday parties, foreign dinner parties, foreign festivals—I wanted to be immersed in a culture so completely different from mine that it made my head spin. So after pouring over ESL (English as a Second Language) blogs for months searching for the perfect place for me to teach English, I eventually concluded that according to the web, Thai people were the most welcoming people out there. So, I went to Thailand. And, the bloggers were totally right. The Thai people were friendly and open to visitors—especially in the Northeastern countryside (the region known as Isaan) where tourists and Westerners hardly ever venture. It was here in the small rural town of Kaeng Khro that my dream of attending a foreign wedding came true. It didn’t happen quite as I had imagined. In fact, I didn’t even know the bride or the groom! As it turns out, the bride knew me, or at least she knew of me. Actually, most of the people living there knew of me and the two other foreign teachers, Sharon and Tess.

Original Source A Wedding Story: Rural Thailand