Each the groom and the bride are from the central highlands province of Lam Dong, the place Da Lat is the capital. They’re each working on the historic Da Lat station, additionally the place they first met.
Thinh, 33, mentioned the friends at his wedding ceremony to Hoa, 24, gathered on the Da Lat municipal station on the afternoon of Dec. 22 to board the prepare to Trai Mat, seven kilometers away. It was en-route because the prepare rolled down the tracks that the wedding ceremony was held.
The prepare carriage was embellished with flowers, and a protracted desk operating the size of the rail automotive sat 64 invitees for pastries and wine.
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Visitors sitting at a desk on a prepare carriage, the place Thinh and Hoa’s wedding ceremony ceremony passed off Dec. 22, 2023. Photograph courtesy of Thinh and Hoa |
Thinh gave a hoop to Hoa after the prepare departed from Da Lat station, earlier than elevating a toast with violin music within the background. When the prepare reached Trai Mat station, the couple and the friends disembarked to take images on the romantic location earlier than returning to Da Lat.
The couple got here up with the thought of a prepare wedding ceremony in November. As workers on the Da Lat station, with Thinh working in operations and Hoa in advertising and marketing, they thought the thought would make their huge day much more significant.
Thinh and Hoa’s love story ignited in Could, 2023, when Hoa utilized for a job on the Da Lat station, the place she later encountered Thinh. It went naturally: they struck up a dialog, bought nearer to one another, and finally fell in love.
“I needed to have a particular wedding ceremony to commemorate the place our love started,” mentioned Thinh. Each [Thinh and Hoa’s] households supported the thought as quickly as they heard it, he added.
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Thinh and Hoa on the prepare carriage the place their wedding ceremony passed off on Dec. 22, 2023. Photograph courtesy of Thinh and Hoa |
It took the couple solely a month to finish the wedding-planning course of, which included making use of for permission from the station’s administration board, then arranging the ceremony and décor.
Upon listening to their thought, the station’s administration board confirmed their assist and facilitated the method by aiding in organizing the prepare, as nicely even providing assist in protecting the marriage’s bills.
Le Anh Tuan, director of the Saigon Railway Transport Department, mentioned the occasion was the primary wedding ceremony in Vietnam to be held in a prepare carriage. The department could being providing the service to these sooner or later, he mentioned.
The Da Lat-Trai Mat railway is the final remaining part of the historic 84-kilometer-long Da Lat-Thap Cham line, which opened in 1932 to attach Lam Dong with the coastal Ninh Thuan province. It at present serves tourism functions solely.
Thinh and Ho’as prepare wedding ceremony on Dec. 22, 2023. Video courtesy of Thinh and Hoa