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Real wedding · Beach ceremony
Benz & Yen Linh — A Hua Beach Wedding and Villa Reception in Kamala
Beach weddingHua BeachVilla Baan Chang Thai
Benz and Yen Linh planned their Phuket wedding from Paris across nine unhurried months with Toom — an intimate ceremony on the small Hua Beach in Kamala on 23 August 2015, followed by a Thai-inspired seafood BBQ and reception at Villa Baan Chang Thai, and a private boat tour for their guests through the quieter islands off Phuket.
By Paul & SupparinAugust 2015
Watch the films
The full film for this wedding lives on our YouTube channel, alongside every other beach wedding we have planned since 2012 — one of the six kinds of Phuket wedding ceremony we plan on the island.
The first conversation, from Paris
Benz and Yen Linh came to us in late 2014, planning their destination wedding from Paris. The early exchanges were the practical ones a good beach wedding rests on — drink packages, guest logistics, a recovery BBQ menu for the day after — and their preference from the outset was clear: an authentic Thai-inspired seafood BBQ, a genuine sense of the island for their guests, and a small, calm ceremony on the sand.
They knew what they wanted; they simply needed someone in Phuket to hold the detail. That is the shape of the work our couples ask us for most often, and Toom took the correspondence from there.
Shifting the ceremony to Hua Beach
As planning moved into 2015 a government regulation changed what was possible on Kamala Beach itself. Rather than absorb the change quietly and hope for the best on the day, Toom moved the ceremony a short distance up the coast to Hua Beach — the small, sheltered beach at the northern end of Kamala that we have been holding wedding ceremonies on for years. It is one of the reasons we keep several beach options in mind for every couple: when a permit shifts, the wedding does not.
Around the venue change came guest transport, a private boat tour to explore the quieter natural islands off Phuket, a celebrant confirmed, and a reception dinner set at Villa Baan Chang Thai in Kamala — an easy short transfer from Hua Beach and a villa we know intimately.
The wedding day — 23 August 2015
The ceremony took place on Hua Beach on Sunday 23 August 2015, followed by the reception at Villa Baan Chang Thai. The seafood BBQ landed as they had asked for it — Thai in character, generous, unfussed. The evening closed with wedding fireworks over the villa, and the day after ran into the recovery BBQ and the private boat tour, giving the guests a genuine two-day arc rather than a single event to endure.
Hello Toom! We're on the road to go back to Bangkok. Thank you so much for everything. You had done your best and it means so much for us. The wedding was marvelous, the BBQ party was beautiful and the boat trip was amazing!
Every one of their guests, they wrote, had been satisfied with every part of the event. It is the sort of note we keep on file quietly — not for marketing, but because it is what the work is for.
A friendship that outlasted the wedding
The relationship did not end when they flew back to Paris. Toom and the couple stayed in touch through the photos and the film, then across the years. In 2017 they wrote with anniversary wishes and the news of their baby daughter Alice — a small note, in the way weddings sometimes leave a small note, of the sort of rapport built when a planner treats a couple as people first and a booking second.
This wedding belonged to
- CoupleBenz & Yen Linh
- CeremonyBeach wedding
- VenueHua Beach, Kamala & Villa Baan Chang Thai, Phuket
- WhenAugust 2015
Vendor credits
- Planning & CoordinationPaul & Toom (Supparin), Unique Phuket
- Ceremony venueHua Beach, Kamala, Phuket
- Reception venueVilla Baan Chang Thai, Kamala
- PhotographyMadiow
- FlowersPhuket Flowers by Toom
Source
From our planning correspondence with Benz and Yen Linh, late 2014 through August 2015, and their post-wedding note from the road back to Bangkok.
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Do you only plan large weddings?
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Will Paul or Supparin be there on the day?
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Are we tied to specific venues or suppliers?
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