To the finish line! Thai brides-to-be race for free, lavish wedding
Brides-to-be, dolled up in their wedding gowns, do cover most of the race as they run the first 2 kM
(Reuters) - Run like your lives depended on it! 300 couples gathered in Bangkok city on Saturday (November 24) to join a 3-kilometre (1.86 miles) annual Running of the Brides race.
The couples compete for a grand prize of a fully-sponsored lavish wedding and honeymoon trips to the Maldives and Sapporo, Japan, worth 2 million baht ($60,400 approx.).
Brides-to-be, dolled up in their wedding gowns, do cover most of the race as they run the first 2 kilometres up and down a highway, before meeting up with their grooms for a piggy-back ride.
Hand-in-hand, the first couple, Saisroy Songprasert, and her groom-to-be, Wasan Thatnamol, reached the finish line in 27.43 minutes, saying they were running for their lives .
As for other couples, maybe better luck next year.
