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Lowan & Anson — A Villa Shanti Wedding at Jivana Beach Villas
Villa weddingVilla ShantiJivana Beach Villas
Lowan and Anson came to us in October 2018 to plan a private villa wedding at Villa Shanti, part of the Jivana Beach Villas complex on Phuket's quiet west coast. Eight months of planning — a December site inspection and a carefully paced wedding day — closed with a sunset ceremony on 22 June 2019.
By Paul & SupparinJune 2019
Plan one of your own
We plan villa weddings like this one on Phuket — quietly, in person, with the same team you meet here. It is one of the six kinds of Phuket wedding ceremony we plan on the island.
The booking, October 2018
Lowan and Anson engaged Unique Phuket in October 2018 to plan a private villa wedding at Villa Shanti — one of the beachfront residences inside the Jivana Beach Villas complex. Their stay was confirmed for 21–24 June 2019, giving us a clear frame to plan around: a three-night takeover with the wedding day sitting quietly in the middle.
Villa Shanti, on Layan Beach
Villa Shanti sits inside Jivana Beach Villas, a small cluster of private beachfront residences on Layan Beach — a long, quiet stretch of sand on Phuket's west coast, kept calm by the neighbouring Sirinat National Park. The villa is directly on the beach: a wide pool deck opens onto the sand, an oceanfront sala shelters the dining table, and the bedrooms sit back behind mature garden planting. Managed by Elite Havens with a full on-site team — private chef, butler, housekeeping — it is designed for the sort of three-night takeover a wedding needs. For Lowan and Anson, that meant the ceremony, dinner and evening could all live inside one address, on their own time, with the beach as the only backdrop the day required.
Site inspection, December 2018
The couple flew in for a site inspection on 14 December 2018 to walk Villa Shanti in person with their planners. Seeing the villa in its real light — the beach frontage, the pool deck where the ceremony would sit, the sala for dinner — is the point at which most of the design decisions quietly resolve themselves. By the time they flew home, we had the shape of the day.
Finalising the details, May–June 2019
The weeks before the wedding were the ordinary rhythm of a villa takeover: food-and-beverage choices, the provisioning list, transport for the couple and their guests. One small piece of housekeeping mattered enough to note — the bride is known day-to-day as Sarah, but her formal name is Lowan, so we updated every planning document, guest-facing name card and vendor brief accordingly, so the day itself would read correctly from the first welcome sign to the final signature.
The wedding day — 22 June 2019
The day was paced carefully. Hair and makeup began at 7:00 in the villa, giving the bridal party a long, calm morning. A tea ceremony followed in the afternoon — the family gesture that anchors the wedding in tradition before the Western ceremony takes over. The wedding ceremony itself began at 5:00, timed to the softening light on the beach.
Villa Shanti in the afternoon light — the ceremony pace that shaped the whole day.
Reception dinner opened at 7:00 in the villa; a fire show followed at 8:30, and the first dance sat at 9:30 — a run of set-pieces spaced far enough apart that the evening never felt hurried. This is the difference a proper villa takeover makes: the schedule serves the couple, not the venue.
After the wedding
The week after, we handled the administrative wash-up with Elite Havens, the villa management company — including the return of the couple's security deposit, which is the small but real end of a villa wedding for the couple. The wedding film, produced later that year, was delivered to Lowan and Anson through Vimeo; photography from the day continued to travel, still drawing attention on our Flickr archive as late as January 2022.
This wedding belonged to
- CoupleLowan & Anson
- CeremonyVilla wedding
- VenueVilla Shanti, Jivana Beach Villas, Phuket
- WhenJune 2019
Vendor credits
- Planning & CoordinationPaul & Supparin, Unique Phuket
- VenueVilla Shanti, Jivana Beach Villas
- Villa managementElite Havens
Source
From our planning correspondence with Lowan and Anson, October 2018 – July 2019.
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