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We at Thailand weddings.com are members
and supporters of Responsibletravel.com As we believe in the values the company was
founded on and believe that we all have cultural and ecological
responsibilities to live up to.
How choosing us makes a
difference!
We as a small business have always believed
in helping and giving back to our community and have done so
by helping promote and start several community based self help
projects, from a small coffee company, tribal handicraft co-op,
handicapped NGO, to a local reforestation projects in the area
of our venue.
As part of our local community,
we invite local elders to help and partake in our Buddhist weddings.
They will not accept payment for such things, but they do receive
a chance to enjoy some excellent food and entertainment as well
as to be shown the respect that local culture bestows upon our
elderly. It is so import to provide all people a sense of self
worth and usefulness, thus keeping our culture alive in Thailand
today. We also try to promote Thai culture, Thai music and dramatical
arts by hiring local professionally trained musicians and dancers
and other performers for our weddings.
We recommend to our wedding guests great
local producers and suppliers of local products like jewellery,
wood carvings and silk and even assist in translating as often
the best producers do not speak much English. We also tell them
of non touristy markets and places to find the best deals. As
well as great local restaurants where authentic local northern
Thai cuisine may be found. We can also recommend some fun things
to do like elephant ride, treks, mountain biking tours or even
golf courses.
Our property was an abandoned farm due
to the fact the slash and burn style farming practices had left
the soil commercially unusable. With hard work and good soil
restoration and management techniques and lots of loving care,
it has been reclaimed to the point of a garden paradise - wedding
venue (Thanks mostly to our original head gardener "Khun
Sea"). An adjacent small organic orchard growing old style
Thai fruits and some of the land being reforested in Thai golden
teak trees and other trees for future generations to enjoy and
manage are all part of our overall wedding venue.
Even our wedding house is made from
recycled teak and other woods from two old houses that were being
torn down in favour of new concrete homes, so no new lumber was
used in our main building.
Our other buildings are made from mostly
locally source materials like thatched roofing material or recycled
tiles. We do use gray water to water part of our garden, we recycle
all paper, old metal, plastic but it is normal here and viable
economically too. Of course we compost organic waste what little
have to help rebuild our soil. We also have mostly long life
energy gas lighting or candles. We have air conditioning or fan
if preferred but with our planting around the house we find a
small micro climate developing and the need for air conditioning
most of all the time.
The local staff knows the importance
of water and energy conservation good environmental practices
as here we all traditionally try to live with nature and accept
when we do not the price to pay is high.
We employ 100% local staff from northern
Thailand, most from the local area. We offer better than average
wages and opportunities to all staff members. We have provided
on the job training to all staff and sub suppliers on building
professional skills in whatever area of employment they are in
from gardeners to kitchen staff and even the drivers.
We offer employment opportunities to
those not usually able to find work such as a hearing impaired
individual, as well as illiterate workers, single mothers and
local Hill tribe people. This is not to say the service one receives
is not the best there is, but just the contrary, ensuring your
service with genuine whole hearted enthusiasm and appreciation
of you coming to our small corner of the world to marry, has
helped make possible a better life for so many. Yet we feel we
can offer you a unique and wonderful experience too, a perfect
wedding.
We as a business and in conjunction
with our staff have also helped with local and hill tribe students
with tuitions and finacial assistance when needed. At present
we endevouring to set up a more formal and structured procedure
to aid in such works. Which will enable couples and guests to
help in as well. In the past some caring guests have donated
funds and asked us to make sure it goes to those who really need
it and will truly benifet from thier help.We have done so, but
only on an unofficial basis and see a need for a more formal
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