Fifty-nine {couples} in Thailand received married whereas using elephants on Sunday, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding ceremony ceremony at a botanical backyard in a province east of Bangkok.
Dancers and a band led the procession of elephants and {couples} and an area official, additionally on an elephant, oversaw the signing of the wedding license.
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“For me, I’ve been planning for a very long time that if I had been to signal a wedding license in the future, it have to be a unprecedented occasion,” mentioned groom Patiphat Panthanon, 26, sitting beside his 23-year-old bride.
The elephant-back wedding ceremony is an annual occasion on the Nong Nooch Tropical Backyard in Chonburi province which often attracts as much as 100 {couples}. However this yr because of the coronavirus pandemic, the numbers had been down.
Kampon Tansacha, president of the Nong Nooch Tropical Backyard, mentioned that resulting from strict screening protocols for guests, folks had been feeling safer and have began to come back again to go to the botanical park, which showcases recreations of landscaped gardens from all over the world.
Thailand‘s tourism-reliant nation has but to raise a journey ban imposed final April to curb the outbreak, holding most international buyers away.
