Jacklyn & Alex — An Enchanted Garden Elopement at Thavorn Beach Village

Jacklyn found us in December 2017 with a very specific picture in her head — an intimate two-person elopement in an enchanted garden, dressed in burgundy and gold and fairy lights, with a baby-elephant portrait session from an ethical source. What followed was three months of careful, cross-continent planning between Canada and Thailand, and on 13 March 2018 that picture became a real day at Thavorn Beach Village in Kamala. The wedding film sits at the top of this page.

The search — an enchanted garden, in burgundy and gold

Jacklyn was referred to us in December 2017 by Wedding Boutique Phuket, who were already fully booked for her dates. From the first email her vision was clear and unusually specific: an elopement, just the two of them, staged as an enchanted garden — dark colours like burgundy and gold, tons of sparkles and fairy lights, and a baby-elephant portrait session with the caveat that the elephant come from a genuinely ethical source. That last condition mattered to her more than any of the styling notes, and we treated it that way.

The couple's first instinct was The Pavilions, and we spent time exploring it with them. When the resort's in-house policies limited the level of customisation Jacklyn wanted for the garden setting, we stepped back and recommended Thavorn Beach Village in Kamala instead — a resort whose garden area actually fit the enchanted-garden picture Jacklyn was building, and whose team gave us the room to style it properly.

Cross-continent logistics

The bigger challenge was, quietly, the money movement. Canadian email transfers didn't clear, a bank wire ran into friction, and after a fair amount of back-and-forth we settled on PayPal — chosen together because it minimised cost and kept the transaction traceable on both ends. Throughout the exchange the tone stayed respectful and solution-oriented, which is the part of a planner's job clients rarely see and always feel.

Collaborative styling — February 2018

In February 2018 Jacklyn sent through a folder of picture inspiration — florals, table settings, the aisle look — and Toom (Supparin) worked through it image by image. Her role was transparency: which elements sat inside the standard elopement package, which required additional investment, and where a small adjustment would land the same visual result at a fraction of the cost. Jacklyn made her calls quickly and confidently, and the day's shape settled: hair and makeup, the garden ceremony under the fairy lights, a short portrait window, and the baby-elephant session at the end. Her processional was chosen too — The Piano Guys' arrangement of A Thousand Years.

The wedding day — Tuesday 13 March 2018

The day itself was, by design, small and unhurried. Two people, one garden, one photographer, one videographer, one baby elephant — and a schedule loose enough that everything could breathe. The flowers were the piece Jacklyn had prioritised in the budget, and they carried the room. The film at the top of this page is how she asked us to record the day so her family and friends in Canada could feel like they were there.

After the wedding

The correspondence after the wedding stayed warm. Jacklyn wrote back delighted with the photos and the film, and later sent a picture of what she had done with the wedding flowers back home — preserved and repurposed, still doing their job weeks later. She gave us full permission to use their wedding highlights on the website. Her public review on Google is the one we quote below.