BANGKOK: Some 250 couples in wedding dresses and suits raced through a Bangkok park on Saturday in the annual ‘Running of the Brides’ to compete for $28,000 (Dh102,841) in wedding prizes.
Sirada Thamwanna, 29, said she was exhausted after winning the four kilometre foot race with her soon-to-be groom Sittichai Prasongsin, 27.
“Just now, I told the groom that I was going to give up, I can’t do it anymore,” Sirada said after crossing the finish line in a white wedding dress and black running shoes.
“He supported me and said that we only had a little more to go,” she added.
The free wedding package includes a gown for the bride and suit for the groom, wedding bands, a honeymoon on the Thai resort island of Phuket and a trip to the Maldives.
