As marriage leads to babies, so does marriage spring forth from engagements, which are also a part of Thai tradition. Rather than an engagement or promise ring typical in the Western world, Thai couples are betrothed in a thong mun ceremony by which a potential groom makes his vow to wed his sweetheart with an offer of gold, usually 2 baht in weight (a baht weighing 15.2 g). In practice, parents of the bride and groom would meet even before this ceremony to discuss the fitness of the couple and to start with dowry and wedding plans, ad in fact in modern times this formal engagement is often skipped with couples simply asking for their parents’ blessings.