Top and Noon choose to reuse for a truly green wedding

 Given their choice in sidelines, the two actors have decided that their wedding will have an environmentally helpful theme. Top filled in reporters at a recent ADDA Design event at Siam Centre. “I’ve just finished creating the invitation card – it’s a product of our own firm. We want to show that invitation cards can be friendly to the environment too.”

They’re expecting around 1,000 guests but haven’t chosen a venue yet, wanting to make sure the ecology isn’t left out there either. “I want it to be at a hotel everyone could walk to hotel or ride the BTS to,” Top said. Meanwhile Noon is carefully selecting organic food to be served, not a difficult task for her because she and her friends have been running a salad restaurant in Bangkok’s Thawee Watthana district for years. 

It’s amazing how much they can agree on. Even though both are conscientious about giving the environment a break, we might not have expected Noon to go for a used wedding gown. “I admire her for selecting a used dress, and it really suits her,” a proud Top said. “I can only praise her for going with the idea, but our aim is to create the least waste at our wedding.” 

And Noon is only going to wear the one outfit, unlike the usual half-dozen wardrobe changes most celebrity brides insist on, and all of her bridesmaids will be in recycled garments as well. 

“As for me,” said Top, “I own a lot of suits and I’ll probably just go with one I already have.”

 

The rising tide of trash

Okay, so the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration says one of the main reasons the city keeps getting inundated in heavy rains is that its residents are such litterbugs. The city dug those gigantic storm sewers in the expectation that our aeons-old flood problems would be over once and for all, only to find them clogged up with discarded junk, everything from mattress and sofas to, ironically enough, big old earthen water jars. 

As we hang our heads in shame (if not resignation at the thought of many more decades of knee-deep waters), we can at least take heart that some Thais do like to keep things tidy. 

On Twitter there were photos posted by Singaporean user @SGsporthub of Thai football fans picking up trash around the SEA Games stadium there after their team demolished Indonesia on Saturday (5-0, but we don’t want to keep rubbing it in). 

“Thank you for clearing the litter, Thai fans!” said the caption, and, under another photo of the stands opposite, where the Indonesia fans were doing the same thing, “Thank you, Indonesian fans! You were amazing throughout!”

Now, if we can only put these football maniacs to work sweeping up the Bangkok debris, conditions might dry out around here nicely.