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Real wedding · Villa wedding
Sarah & Simon — A Two-Day Villa Wedding at Villa Aye
Villa weddingVilla AyeKamala
Sarah and Simon first wrote to us in October 2023, more than a year out from the date they had in mind. That long runway is what a villa wedding wants — it gave us time to walk them through Villa Aye in person, shape the celebration around two days rather than one, and quietly line up the vendors who would carry the day. Ninety-one guests came for the ceremony and dinner on 7 December 2024; sixty-four stayed on for a second, looser party the next evening.
By Paul & SupparinDecember 2024
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The first email, October 2023
Sarah and Simon's enquiry arrived on 8 October 2023, asking about availability at Villa Aye for a wedding the following December. Fourteen months is a generous runway — the kind that lets a villa wedding settle instead of scramble. Over the winter we traded emails on shape and shortlist, and by the following summer they were ready to see the villa themselves.
A quiet corner of the villa on the morning of the wedding.
The site inspection, August 2024
In August 2024 Sarah and Simon flew in for the site inspection. We walked Villa Aye together — the arrival gate, the pool deck where a ceremony can sit for ninety guests without feeling crowded, the sala that would hold dinner, and the terrace at the back where the party would eventually spill out over Kamala Bay. Most of the design decisions quietly resolved themselves in that walk-through. By the time they flew home the shape of both days was on paper.
One of the styling details from the ceremony setup — small enough to be missed, deliberate enough to be there.
Shaping the vendor team
Through the second half of 2024 we assembled the vendor team around the couple's brief — photographer, videographer and band chosen for the two-day shape rather than a single ceremony. Catering was designed to carry a ninety-one-guest sit-down on the Saturday and a lighter sixty-four-guest party on the Sunday without repeating itself. The layout drawings, timings and guest logistics were locked long before anyone flew in.
The wedding day — 7 December 2024
The ceremony itself sat on the pool deck at Villa Aye in the late afternoon, with Kamala Bay behind it. Ninety-one guests. A short exchange of vows, the first kiss, then drinks under the poolside pergola while the sala turned over for dinner.
The ceremony on the pool deck — the same view Sarah and Simon walked in August 2024.
The first kiss, at the end of a very short ceremony script.
A portrait in the calm half-hour between ceremony and reception.
The reason Villa Aye's terrace is where the drinks land — sunset over Kamala Bay.
Dinner for ninety-one in the sala, once the light had gone.
The second day, 8 December
The Sunday was deliberately looser. Sixty-four of the wedding guests stayed on for a post-wedding party at the villa — the band back on, the catering pared down to something less formal, and the pace set by the couple rather than a schedule. It is the reason we treat a villa wedding as a two- or three-night takeover rather than a single evening: the day after is where the celebration actually settles.
The post-wedding party on the Sunday — a smaller room, a longer night.
After the wedding
The couple wrote back after they had flown home to say the planning had been "easy and fun", that their time in Thailand and the wedding day itself had been "perfect", and that the vendors we had put around them had been exceptional. In January 2025 the wedding films arrived; their note back on those read simply: "greater than we dreamed of."
Easy and fun from start to finish — and the videos were greater than we dreamed of.
This wedding belonged to
- CoupleSarah & Simon
- CeremonyVilla wedding
- VenueVilla Aye, Kamala
- WhenDecember 2024
- Guests91
Vendor credits
- Planning & CoordinationPaul & Supparin, Unique Phuket
- VenueVilla Aye, Kamala
Source
From our planning correspondence with Sarah and Simon, October 2023 – January 2025.
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