Lao wedding has its own rites and codes which the slowness and the decorum could sometimes surprise, even confuse the persons who didn’t possess the code. But it is what makes its charm and its originality… If the marriage has lost many of its old aurain the civilized societies and represents mostly only an administrative formality, or just a stage in one’s life, because of divorces and separation, it remains an essential passage in the life of a Lao nationals. Getting married represents, indeed, the biggest event of their existence, not only for the very newlyweds but especially for their families.