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Real wedding · Beach elopement
Anne & Jeremy — A Beach Elopement at Anantara Mai Khao
Beach elopementAnantara Mai KhaoBuddhist blessing
Anne Dudek and Jeremy Baxter wrote to us in October 2021, a few weeks out from their arrival in Phuket, wanting a quiet beach elopement at their hotel — the Anantara Mai Khao — with a Thai monks blessing at Wat Doi Thep to precede it. The planning stayed personal from the first reply to the last sunset frame on 18 November.
By Paul & SupparinNovember 2021
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The full film for this wedding lives on our YouTube channel, alongside every other beach elopement we have planned since 2012.
The first message, October 2021
Anne and Jeremy found us through a wedding directory in October 2021 and wrote in with a clear picture: an intimate, romantic elopement on the beach at their hotel, the Anantara Mai Khao. They told us how they had met in Santa Monica and been engaged in an English castle — the sort of detail that shapes a ceremony as much as any timeline does. Paul and Toom took it from there.
There was an early administrative mix-up over a payment reference — the kind of small comedy that surfaces in every planning correspondence and is worth remembering because it belonged to their story too. It was sorted quickly, and the rest of the planning stayed straightforward and warm.
The floral palette Anne asked for — white and pale, with soft greenery. Carried through the bouquet, the ceremony arch and the boutonnière.
A Thai monks blessing at Wat Doi Thep, first
The couple wanted a Thai monks blessing at Wat Doi Thep to precede the beach ceremony — the shape of the day we describe in our Buddhist blessing notes, kept intact. Chanting, sai sin thread, offerings, and the sprinkling of holy water to close. It set the tone for everything that followed on the beach a few hours later.
The blessing at Wat Doi Thep — the couple in front of the monks, before the beach ceremony at Anantara Mai Khao.
The sai sin thread already in place — the moment after the tying, before the water blessing.
Sunset light, and the walk to the beach
We adjusted the schedule so the ceremony would land in the best of the late-afternoon light. Anne walked down through the gardens of Anantara Mai Khao to meet Jeremy on the sand — a short, quiet procession that carried the whole tone of the day.
Anne's walk through the resort gardens to the beach — the schedule adjusted to catch the last of the good light.
The ceremony, and after
The beach ceremony itself was simple and heartfelt — the shape of an elopement kept deliberately small so the couple could feel the day rather than manage it. Once the vows were exchanged and the certificate signed, we stepped back and let the sunset do the last of the work.
A quiet moment after the ceremony — a memorable end to a day both for the couple and for the team who had planned it with them.
This wedding belonged to
- CoupleAnne & Jeremy
- CeremonyBeach elopement
- VenueAnantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas
- WhenNovember 2021
Vendor credits
- Planning & CoordinationPaul & Supparin (Toom), Unique Phuket
- Ceremony venueAnantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas
- BlessingWat Doi Thep Nimitr
Source
From our planning correspondence with Anne and Jeremy, October–November 2021.
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