Last week I got an email from my foreigner friends asking me about “Dowry” as he has an idea to get married with his Thai girlfriend and this is not my first time that foreigners friends question me about Thai’s wedding culture especially “ Dowry”
“ Why do Thai parents needs Dowry?”
“ Don’t you think it’s like selling daughter?”
“ Why man have to pay, in my country girls have to pay?”
“ How much we should pay for the dowry?”
“ It’s like a legally buy a wife?”
“ Do I need to pay tax on “Dowry”?
“ Can you give me a sample basic amount of dowry?”
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! My dear friends. Thais parents didn’t ask for dowry as a commercial! There is no surplus or deficit, no tax, no VAT 7%! Your girlfriend is not product so dowry is not a price tag on your girlfriend’s head! First of all, you need to understand Thai culture ok? If you love her but you don’t try to understand the culture and you are not hap
The amount of dowry shows financial security of the bridegroom side. It’s pretty common that bridegroom put dowry and gold. It ‘s like a blessing for your brand new family. But there are some couples that they don’t need any “dowry”, but they do have “dowry” just for a symbol as it’s a part of the ceremony. And most of the families hand the dowry back to the couple as a wedding gift.
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