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Bangkok’s pandemic wedding boom – Coconuts

It’s been over two years since Peerampa Janjumratsang decided to become a bride. Plans for a big ceremony were made; deposits were paid. Then everything was delayed, postponed, put on hold.

“We were thinking this stupid ‘Wuhan virus’ won’t be a big deal and would go away in a couple of months,” she said of their thinking in March 2020 when they paid a sizable venue deposit. “The original wedding date would have been in December, in about eight months. We thought that should be OK.”

It wasn’t. When the next appointed date came earlier this month, she went ahead and had a small, friends-only ceremony – in Singapore, where she’d been stranded by travel restrictions for over a year. “There’s been an explosion of weddings here as well,” she said. “Back-to-back weddings for the last three or four weekends.”

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