What are the steps and costs for obtaining a marriage license in Bangkok for an American marrying a Thai citizen?

TSL & Associates directly across the street from the courthouse.

Key visa can arrange this

Have you been to Thailand? It is like any USA city, it depends on your budget.

If she can't do a bit of research and come up with the answers to a simple question like this....................give her the flick.

Do it yourself mate. It's not as difficult as it's made out to be.

Any government official can do the registration and issues the marriage certificate, fees are minimal. If you want them to come your place of choice you’ll need to set up a schedule, some do and some don’t.

Best of luck!

Don't

Bang Rak, license cost me 40baht.

Bang Rak Amphur is what the bride would want; its liteerally "Love Village", which means its busy. Amphurs are offices. You go along, fill in some forms that are in Thai, pay a small fee, round up some witnesses (people who work in the office), and thats it, you're married. There isn't an official you stand in front of and recite vows etc. Usually, you need an Agent/Fixer to get you to miss the queue. I'm British, so I had to go through an Affirmation Ceremony at the Embassy, which had its own fees (to check I wasn't a bigamist basically). That paperwork, plus your passport needs to translated into Thai, and notarised, taken to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who will take 3 working days to approve your application to marry, then you take that stamped paperwork to the Amphur you have booked at and complete. An agent will charge 8-10,000 Baht, and will do all the translations and running around Bangkok. Its worth it, as translators can get your Western name wrong. I had my affirmation done on a tuesday morning, agent was ready to collect the paperwork, and scoot off to get everything done before the MFA shut at 3pm. I just turned up to the Amphur on the following monday, the earliest it could be done, after hanging arounf Bangkok for way too long. Your wife will want a party with her friends afterwards, including photoshoot in dress ups, Thai and Western. Leave that to her to organise, as she will get the price down, so you have more money to buy her gold. If she has been previously married, no Sin Sod, but really, you are kind of expected to give her a decent wedding gift of cash, preferably in USD or GBP anyway. Stones or farang gold won't go down well. If you want an actual ceremony, thats a bit of theatre a hotel can arrange. You could go the whole shebang, and get in a tag team of 9 monks, but in Bhuddism, marriage isn't a religious thing, so all you are really getting is a good luck ceremony, not really a marriage ceremony in the Western sense. Or you could go to a Church in Bangkok, if thats your thing. But you still need to go to the Amphur to make it legal.

All the steps to get married in Thailand are detailed here -

Ban Rak

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