{"id":1076,"date":"2014-01-28T11:51:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T09:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T09:51:55","slug":"underwater-wedding-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1076-underwater-wedding-in-thailand","title":{"rendered":"Underwater wedding in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For almost 20 years the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/cities\/trang.php\">Trang<\/a> offers to couples from Thailand and from around the world to \u00f9marry in flippers, diving masks and bottles underwater. This Annual Underwater Wedding Festival is held each year for Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Trang Annual Underwater Wedding Festival\" alt=\"Trang Annual Underwater Wedding Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hellotravel.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/640X400\/115\/cck_images\/b.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1996, this\u00a0deepwater marriage attracts more and more lovers each year.\u00a0Apart from the registration procedure that takes place underwater, the ceremony also introduces a traditional Thai style wedding to the participants. The ceremony starts with a Khan Mak procession, a colorful and lively parade in which the groom makes his way to ask the bride\u2019s parents for their daughter\u2019s hand, accompanied by folk dances and songs. A religious and blessing ceremony also take place, at which the bride and the groom have to wear traditional Thai costumes. Then there is a procession of brides and grooms through the streets of the city to the traditional Thai wedding ceremony .<\/p>\n<p>Trang Underwater Wedding Annual Festival was recorded by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest submarine\u00a0wedding ceremony in the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Important: For the underwater recording procedure grooms are required to be certified divers if they are not it will take place on land .<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trang Underwater Wedding Annual Festival runs from February 13 to <strong>February <\/strong>15 each year<\/strong><br \/><strong>Information and registration with the TAT Trang Office : 075 215 867 or 075 211 058 <\/strong><em>( the code for Thailand is 0066 )<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost 20 years the city of Trang offers to couples from Thailand and from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-festivals-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}