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    its not always right that

    By Anonymous, Created on: 20/12/2002, Last updated on: 12/08/2010

    » actually i have a thai pretty girlfriend who being my girl for a year now. and i think thai women are serious and good one bcoz of i've known thai friends both men and women and they're not think about your money in their brain! now a days, they can work and earn as much as men can do. don't look...

    • Anonymous commented : 0 baht and buy grandmother a gold necklace and rings for my fiancee and I. I had the time of my life. I met her family, only problem I realy had was the small language gap. She speaks ok english, but its a lot better then my Thai. We are working towards getting her a Fiancee visa. And so far we have no problems. I send her 50 dollars a month but am thinking about increasing that to about 150 because I consider her my wife and wish to take care of her. She never ever asked me for a dime. Even when i was over there I had to beg her to let me buy her anything, she thought I SPENT way to much. I am a very happy man, and I would recommend that if you want a good wife...dont go to bars or you will get a bar fly. I got lucky that my best friend and his wife, set me up with a family member. Please email me if there are any questions, I would love to chat . charwiz

    • 27 replies, 36,653 views

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    Dowery

    By Anonymous, Created on: 26/05/2004, Last updated on: 09/03/2007

    » Hello and thanks to all that responded to my last questions. Those of you who have been following my last questions thanks. I am set to marry in Nov or Dec and I talked to her family. My dowery is set at 2 milllion bath and I already gave a 200,000 bath strater to show that I was interested. What...

    • Anonymous commented : her family. In Thai culture, gold is the measure of wealth and security. The 10 bahts of gold is equivalent to 10 US troy ounces. Well, gold in the open market is valuing $400 per troy ounce = 16,000 Thai bahts. The 10 bahts of gold would cost 160,000 Thai bahts. These 10 bahts are most likely to be your bride's jewelry's wedding gifts from you like ring, neck-lace, bracelets, belt, and ear rings. These golds are usually your bride property, security, and future family's jewelries. The cash of 200,000 Thai bahts dowery is for show and return to you and your bride later. If her family has outstanding loan from financing her education, than you may not see this money or partially returned to your new family. You just need to have an adult from your family or someone to representing you in the closed door negotiation process. Now, you have to remember that most of these traditions are for a show, a test, work ethic, character, and etc.. You should remember that every Thai parents want their daughter to marry well, which will reflect well to their friends and extended families. Please do not act like egocentric foreigner. Remember, you are representing your family and your race also.

    • Anonymous commented : 500,000B + 100,000B worth of golds + 50,000B worth of diamonds do u think all this is reasonable? pls advice, TQ

    • Anonymous commented : on on the weight and value of gold in Thailand. I always think of gold in troy ounce and thought that baht coid weight in gold would be the same as ounce, since the old Thai baht coin was as big as the American silver dollar coin or American Eagle gold coin. The 10 bahts dowry of gold is a little less than 5 troy ounces, approximately. One gold baht is 15.16 grams. A troy gold ounce is 31.103 grams. Therefore, a gold baht weight is equivalent to 0.487 troy ounces. So the October, 2004 value of a troy gold ounce is about $412.00 USD. The 5 troy gold ounces would cost $2,060.00 USD or B82,400.00 Thai Bahts. The gold bar is generally cost less than finished gold jewelries. US, Canadian, Swiss, or S. African gold bar will find better value in Thailand than Thai gold bar, since it is more pure like 99.99%. I was abled to purchase some gold bars from USA last year for $384.00 USD per troy gold ounce.

    • Anonymous commented : the girls mom ask 10 baht of gold for her daughter and a dowery of 200,000 baht? I think the family is middle class.

    • Anonymous commented : her. The amount of money and gold for dowery can be varied mainly depends on how wealthy the groom is and of course it is also based on the girl's virginity and high moral standard. 2) For Farangs : Most foreigners from the west have questioned and doubts about paying dowery to those Thai girls whom they met and picked from bars and entertainment complex primemarily for sexual relation with payments but ended up marrying them. Even so, dowery is still requested by those girls in wihich the amount of dowery is always over exaggerated to her Farang boy friend's point of view. These are the two different cases for all to judge.

    • Anonymous commented : paid a million baht worth of gold, a million baht worth of diamond sets. (Rings, necklaces earrings etc) diamond studded Rolex. Other gifts. And a large sum of cash. 700+ guests (oddly including many senior police) at one of the best hotels in Bangkok. They are by any standards a wealthy family. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned in this discussion is that wealthy families give back the Dowry. They did with my fiancés big sister. Even though he is from a wealthy family as well. They are not as rich as these lot. It’s all about face. To be seen to not need the dowry gains face. Although somewhat insulting. Firstly one must present at least a million baht. Then your family is not perceived as being wealthy enough so it’s given back. Funny old system. To the guy who’s been quoted 2 million. Unless she’s Royal in which case they would not be introducing a foreigner to the family. So you can cancel that one out. The only reason would be if she belonged to senior of the main 3 Police, Army, government (criminal organizations that run Thailand) it which case the dowry likely given back. Figures are difficult but if the family is not clearly “Hi So” High Society 500,000 baht would be good place to “Cap" Thai dowry’s. Also find out what family and friends paid of equal status. 40,000 seems to be about normal in most case that i've asked. 440,000 is another price that’s kicked around. Think its to do with the price of gold that is in some cases matched. Personally I’m thinking about a million baht but in my case the mother has already decided “which” house to give us. Hope I’ve got it right ;-)

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    getting divorced my mail.

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/06/2004, Last updated on: 22/01/2008

    » I am Thai woman. I got married American about 1 and half years ago in Thailand. Now I want to get divorced and he doesn't want to fly here to give me divorced. He would like me to send him money for the ticket, hotel and food for a week in Thailand. And that will cost me alot of money. I have talked...

    • Anonymous commented : Rooster, Thanks for getting back to me. I have not given the money to my brides parents yet. I am still in America but will be traveling to Thailand this June to marry my bride and bring her back to the US. We have settled on the amount to be given to her parents about 6 months ago. It makes me wonder if her parents now think they should have asked for more. I know her father has a lot of influence on my fiancee. It makes me wonder if he put her up to asking for addition money at the wedding which he can convert to his own use. Please give me you opinion on another thing. My fiancee has asked for 50,000 Baht to pay for the engagement party and wedding. We are going to have the wedding in her village. We will pay for food, rental of wedding costumes for myself and my bride and a professional photographer. We will go to the temple also to make merit. Does 50,000 baht sound like too much for this kind of event? Thank you

    • Anonymous commented : Hi Jeff. You need to tell more about your fiance's background and her family's status. This would determine the dowry/bride price. It seemed that you will have a village wedding events. The cost would depend on the number of people who will attend your wedding reception, and it is usually in the evening. You can calculate the cost at about 200 baht to 500 baht per head. The traditional wedding ceremony will take place at her home in the morning before noon with family members and important guests. Then the merit giving and Buddha service at about 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. The monks will eat and give holly water than leave by noon. They will invite 5, 7, 9 monks. It would depend on the availability of monks in the area and or the status of her family. You will have to pay someone to drive them over to her house. They would make gifts (usually household items) for each monks with money donation too. Each guest or each family will make about 1,000 baht gift or more, or they may bring other none monetary gifts. It would depend on their relationships with your fiance's family. I would not bring him 100,000 in cash. You need to give him bank cashier check and make a enlarge copy to show at the wedding reception. You can make a color copy at Kinko at 8 x 12 or larger. You can bring about $5,000 in $100 denomination. You can open an account with ATM card at Bank of America in Bangkok, so that you could manage the account while you are in USA also. This would be your spending account in Thailand. You can withdraw in Thai baht at the ATM machine to pay for wedding expenses. There is no need to rent wedding clothes. It is ok for you to get marry in other than black western suit and tie. She needs to custom make her traditional Thai silk dresses. NO, I would not give them anymore money. Since it is appeared that they will keep this money. If they are going to rebuild their house, than you could offer to help since you will be living their sometimes. If she is able to work in USA, she could sent them money later. Or she can give them some of her allowance.

    • Anonymous commented : Rooster...you seem so knowledgable on Thai culture and how to correctly do things in the Thai tradition. There are very few resources to go to concerning this. That is why I write you. I know someone who went to Thailand on vacation. As in many of the things that I have heard...he met an exotic dancer...wound up spending time with her. She talked him into taking her to her village to see her 8 yr old child. But was worried about showing up in her village and losing face and respect by bringing a man. He agreed to some kind of engagement ceremony to help her keep her respect. He only knew her 14 days and from Oct, 2006 until this date has been sending her money to help her. She continues to dance and he has begun to think that maybe he made a mistake. But he does not want to shame her, in either her family's eyes or the village. Is there some kind of protocal to breaking off this engagement without causing shame for the woman? He is a good man...just made a cultural mistake.

    • 21 replies, 11,466 views

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