Pay fee to Embassy, book date (new dates available 6 weeks in advance, only Tuesdays and Thursdays). There is no interview. You book in, sign a statement and go. Embassy will confirm your paperwork 3 weeks before, even though they say not to finalise travel until they confirm. Once a date is booked, you can change it easy enough. The Embassy doesn't care about date or where exactly you marry. My Girlfriend lives on Samui, but we married in Bangkok. Translated and notorized paperwork, without translation mistakes, needs to be delivered to the MFA by 3pm, They need 3 working days (closed weekends and holidays). Agents can make appropriate gratuities to ensure you can marry soon after. I got my certificate on a tuesday, and married on the following monday. MFA can reject if they don't like the translation. Recommend you pay the extra for a certified copy of your passport. Certificate looks like this.

Note, most travel insurance will not provide cover if you go to Thailand for medical treatment. And I don't mean they will not pay for that new knee. But if you had that new knee and there were complications you cannot expect cover for the medevac home. Check the small print. You might also have to include the cost of diagnosis for some electives. No doctor worth their salt would undertake an invasive procedure just on the say so of the patient. If they do, they are a Quack.

@Graham *****

Hair splitting. The certificate needs properly translating and notarizing. Its all in Thai. No civil servant in the UK is going to understand it. You will need a translated copy for the courts, passport office, visa application, adoption proceedings, banks, loans.

@Graham *****

Google fail. That actually says "a Thai marriage certificate will be written in the Thai language which will not be accepted by the British Consular Section. In order for it to be accepted, you will need to obtain a “sworn translation” of the certificate. Once this has been obtained, it can then be present to the Consular Section who will then arrange for your marriage to be officially recorded in the UK.". So a Thai marriage certificate, per se, is not automatically recognised in the UK. What I thought all along. You need a notarised translated version, that then needs to be signed off at the Embassy.

@Denzil ********

Didn't need date or place, just the city. My certificate just said Bangkok Metropolis and August.

@Denzil ********

You just need the city, and I think within 30 days of the MFA stamp

@Graham *****

Got a link for that?

@Graham *****

3 working days by the MFA not 48 hours. Had my attestation at 9am on a Tuesday. Paperwork in the hands of the agent at 9.30, he got it translated and notarized, delivered to the MFA by 3pm

The earliest marriage date was on the following Monday at Bangkok noi amphur.

Watch the attestation diary dates at the embassy. Only on Tuesdays and Thursdays. When you pay the online fee, you then book a time and date for the swearing. But the embassy won't actually confirm anything until 2 weeks before. The MFA need 3 working days, they close at 3pm and weekends. I used an agent, who charged for the service. BUT only after paying him did he reveal another fee to legalise the thai marriage certificate for the UK. 4000 plus 2000 post.

@Sam *******

it doesn't mean tax free. You might still be taxed based on the origin of the income. You won't be double taxed.