A couple rides an elephant during a Valentine’s Day celebration at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chon Buri on Sunday. (Reuters photo)
Fifty-two couples got married while riding elephants on Sunday, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in the eastern province of Chon Buri.
Dancers and a band led the procession of elephants and couples and a local official, also on an elephant, oversaw the signing of the marriage licence.
“For me, I’ve been planning for a long time that if I were to sign a marriage licence one day, it must be an extraordinary event,” said groom Patiphat Panthanon, 26, sitting beside his 23-year-old bride.
The elephant-back wedding is an annual event at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden which usually attracts up to a hundred couples. But this year, due to…
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