Twenty couples marked Valentine’s Day by getting married in traditional cow-drawn wooden carts in Thailand.<br /> <br />The brides and grooms, including one European man with his Thai partner, rode on the traditional farming carriages through the country roads in Phetchaburi, southern Thailand today (February 14).<br /> <br />Footage shows happy couples, wearing beautiful Thai costumes, performing traditional rituals at the Na Phrom temple of Na Phan Sam district.<br /> <br />Newlyweds also made Thai desserts - which represented the long and happy love life - and were blessed with holy water by their relatives, making the ceremony lively and warm.<br /> <br />The Thai man speaking in the video, Prasit Ruamsin, the Chief Executive of the Na Phan Sam district, said that this festival had been held for three years.<br /> <br />He said: “The culture of Thai wooden carts was a local wedding ceremony of our district. But it was about to be forgotten because new generations preferred a quick and easy modern ceremony.<br /> <br />“So we promoted this traditional ceremony as a big festival for local and non-local to participate and we hope that more people would recognise the beauty of Thai traditional wedding.”
