Can a UK citizen enter Thailand on a 45-day exemption, get married, and apply for a married visa?

despite my best efforts it would appear that this topic has migrated from a "how do I get a marriage visa" topic to a "how do I get married in thailand as a brit" one

AND

As I said, seeing as this isn't the "how can I marry my thai significant other" group we are now done.

@Dean *********

you have more than enough info to get your friend pointed in the right direction (y)

another way to go about it would be to come in, jump thru the above mentioned hoops to register the marriage that I outlined in the above comment THEN rather than opening a bank account or anything like that just go to the thai consulate in Savannakhet Lao and buy a year long, multi-entry Non-O visa based on marriage to a thai for 5000baht.

That visa is good for unlimited entries for the year it's valid for, each entry gets you a 90 day entry stamp, when that 90 days runs out you go to the border, stamp out of thailand, stamp in and out of another country and right back into thailand to get a new 90 day stamp and you do that the whole year the visa is valid for.

If you do it right you can get 15 months of stay (in 90 day increments) out of a visa that's valid for a year. Actually you can get 17 months because you can extend that last 90 day stamp 60 days based on visiting thai family at the immigration office for 1900baht so it gives you 17 months of stay total 🙂

Whether you can or can't pull that off is gonna come down to how fast you can get your act together, get the affidavit of freedom to marry from your UK embassy here, get it translated into thai, certified by the ministry of foreign affairs, THEN find an Amphur that will marry you and your thai bride to be, as well as get a bank account in your name open and transfer 400K baht into it

AND YET

still have enough time left on your 45 day visa exempt or the 30 day extension to go to the immigration office to apply for the 90 day Non-O visa based on marriage to a thai for 2000baht.