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Every wedding we hold on Phuket is written up afterwards by the person who planned it. There are no carousels, no testimonial blocks, no five-star ratings — only the verified first-hand account of what was decided, what was held, and what we would do again.
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Real wedding · Elopement
Jade & Nicky — An Elopement at Hua Beach
Jade filled out a wedding questionnaire in September 2025, dreaming of an elopement on Hua Beach the following April. From the first replies it was clear what mattered to her and Nicky: a baby elephant for the photoshoot, petals down the aisle, mint green in the arch, and the right song at the right moment. On 3 April 2026 they married on Hua Beach with seven guests — a small, considered day, shaped over six months of warm, gently persistent check-ins.
Real wedding · Elopement
Gemma & Rebecca — An Elopement at Hua Beach
Gemma's first enquiry arrived in September 2024, quietly, and then went quiet again for months. Sixteen months later, on 21 January 2026, she and Rebecca married at Hua Beach — a same-sex elopement for two, with a baby elephant, a bamboo flower arch, and a planning journey that adjusted quietly every time something needed to change.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Ashleigh & James — A Phuket Wedding, Shaped Slowly and Deliberately
Ashleigh first reached out to Paul's celebrant site in June 2024. Within a few emails it was clear she and James wanted a full wedding, not just a celebrant — and they wanted to meet in person before planning it. What followed was a year of small, telling decisions: three rounds of design drafts, an in-person deposit, music chosen for specific moments, and a day at Villa Baan Phu Prana on 6 April 2025 that felt entirely theirs.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Sarah & Simon — A Two-Day Villa Wedding at Villa Aye
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.
Real wedding · Buddhist blessing & beach ceremony · with film
Maria & Chris — A Thai Monks Blessing at Thavorn Beach Village
Maria and Chris came to us in late 2022 with a clear brief: a stress-free destination wedding in Phuket that combined a traditional Thai monks blessing with a Western ceremony. Twelve months of open, pragmatic emails later — including a decision to skip a $300 attire shipment and trust the hotel's iron instead — they married on 20 December 2023 at Thavorn Beach Village. The film on this page shows the feeling and rhythm of a real Thai Buddhist blessing performed by monks — the same ceremonial shape we brought to their morning at Thavorn.
Real wedding · Villa wedding · with film
Andrew & Nelson — A Villa Aye Destination Wedding, on Film
Andrew and Nelson came to us in late 2022 with a clear picture: an elegant same-sex destination wedding at Villa Aye. What followed was a year of shared spreadsheets, direct feedback, and a warm working partnership — culminating on Saturday 11 November 2023 in a traditional Chinese tea ceremony, a Western vow exchange over the pool, and a sixty-six-guest evening reception, all held inside one private villa in Kamala. The full-length film sits at the top of this page.
Watch · Wedding film
Phuket Beach Elopement Video – A Real Intimate Wedding by the Sea
Watch a real Phuket beach elopement and see how a simple, beautifully planned ceremony can feel intimate, relaxed and meaningful.
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Phuket Beach Wedding Video – Large Ceremony with Guests
Watch a real Phuket beach wedding and see how a larger ceremony with guests, seating, flowers and ocean views creates a complete destination wedding experience.
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Phuket Villa Wedding Video
Watch a real Phuket villa wedding and see how a smaller private villa ceremony can feel personal, elegant and beautifully planned.
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Phuket Vow Renewal Video – A Real Beach Ceremony
Watch a real Phuket vow renewal and see how a simple, meaningful beach ceremony looks for couples celebrating their marriage in Thailand.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Gitt & Jeroen — Worth the Wait, at Villa Aye
Gitt and Jeroen first booked with us for March 2020 at Villa Aquila. The pandemic pulled that date apart, and what followed was a multi-year rescheduling — through the birth of a child, through changing borders, and eventually to a new villa. On Thursday 23 November 2023 the wedding finally happened at Villa Aye, in the pink, white and greenery palette they had held onto through every re-plan.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Bekki & Glen — The Wedding That Waited Four Years for Villa Jia
Bekki first wrote to us in February 2019 about a wedding for April 2020 — Villa Jia on Natai Beach, eighty guests, a beachfront ceremony. Four years, three postponed dates and one very patient couple later, she and Glen were finally married at the same villa they had chosen on that first viewing — on 9 April 2023, for a little over seventy guests.
Real wedding · Beach wedding
Amanda & John — A New Year's Day Beach Wedding at Hua Beach
Amanda and John wrote to us in early 2022 wanting a destination beach wedding on Phuket for family and close friends. They quietly handled the legal paperwork in the UK in December so that New Year's Day at Hua Beach could be the real celebration — thirty-three guests, their two sons as ring bearers, and a ceremony Paul shaped around them from first message to last frame.
Real wedding · Resort wedding
Christine & Bradley — A Beachfront Wedding at Amari Phuket
Christine (Cookie) and Bradley booked Amari Phuket in late October 2022 for a beachfront wedding at the year's close. Over two months of quiet planning we shaped a small, close-family ceremony for twelve — a lilac, lavender and white palette, a semi-circle ceremony on the beachfront lawn, a Thai set-menu dinner, and Paul as celebrant. On 29 December 2022 we held it together from the arch to the last frame.
Real wedding · Thai Buddhist blessing
Alan & Thuy — A Thai Monks Blessing at Wat Doi Thep Nimitr
Alan and Thuy came to us in mid-August 2022 wanting a traditional Thai monks blessing on Phuket. What began as an enquiry about the Big Buddha became a quiet morning ceremony at Wat Doi Thep Nimitr — a working temple Toom has volunteered at for years, and a place we know how to hold gently for a couple who have travelled to be blessed.
Real wedding · Beach elopement
Anne & Jeremy — A Beach Elopement at Anantara Mai Khao
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.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Eunice & Ryan — A White and Dusty Blue Wedding at Villa Aquila
Eunice and Ryan's wedding at Villa Aquila on 1 March 2020 was defined by meticulous planning, collaborative problem-solving and a resilient navigation of the unexpected challenges brought on by the earliest weeks of the pandemic. Over many months of work with Paul and Toom, they shaped a white and dusty blue evening around a pool-platform ceremony, a chef-led dinner and a firework close.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Poonam & Victor — A Two-Day Villa Wedding at Villa Shanti, Natai
Poonam and Victor came to us for a two-day beachfront celebration at Villa Shanti on Natai — a Welcome Party on the sand on 1 February 2020, and a formal ceremony and reception the following evening. The palette was gradient pink flowing into emerald green; the food was a custom vegetarian, egg-free Thai family-style menu built with the villa kitchen for their families; and the party opened with a full guest flashmob the couple had rehearsed in secret. This is our planning record of that weekend.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Lowan & Anson — A Villa Shanti Wedding at Jivana 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.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Kitty & Mike — A Multi-Day Celebration at Villa Jia, Jivana Beach Villas
Kitty and Mike came to us looking for a destination wedding that could hold both the privacy of a villa and the warmth needed for a group of family and friends. They found it at Villa Jia, part of the Jivana Beach Villas complex in Phang Nga — a beachfront setting on the Andaman Sea, held over a full weekend in February 2019.
Real wedding · Legal ceremony
Doug & Parisa — A Legal Beach Wedding at Layan
Doug and Parisa were the couple who taught us how much reassurance an international legal wedding really requires. Between late 2018 and their ceremony on Layan Beach on 11 January 2019 they navigated the U.S. and Iranian embassies in Bangkok, the Thai MFA and the Amphur — and still arrived on the sand with room for a Persian recessional song and a ceremony they had written themselves.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Samantha & Saharat — A Villa Wedding at Villa Tievoli, Natai Beach
Samantha and Saharat's wedding at Villa Tievoli on Natai Beach was a celebration defined by careful coordination and a clear, elegant vision — planned across 2018 with the Unique Phuket team, held over a January weekend in 2019 for sixty guests.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Kailey & Daniel — A Spreadsheet-Precise Villa Aye Wedding
Kailey and Daniel booked with us in 2017 for a 4 May 2018 wedding at Villa Aye in the Kamala hills. From Australia they ran the planning as a shared project — one working spreadsheet, fifty guests, exact dietary and hair-and-makeup schedules — and on the day we held the choreography together from villa setup to the last dance.
Real wedding · Elopement · with film
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.
Real wedding · Beach ceremony
Patrycja & Jochem — A Layan Beach Sunset Wedding
An end-of-year ceremony on the quiet north-west shore. Patrycja and Jochem married on Layan Beach on 30 December 2017 — an intimate, non-religious sunset wedding planned across seven months of Facebook messages, Skype calls and shared song choices.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Gerda & Martin — A Purple and White Villa Wedding at Villa Aye
Gerda and Martin came to us in March 2017 with a clear picture: a simple, elegant wedding at Villa Aye in a purple and white palette. Eight months of shared spreadsheets, one September planning visit and 74 guests later, we held their day together from a 3:00 PM tea ceremony through to a sea-barge firework close.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Brooke & Daniel — A Poolside Villa Wedding at Villa Aye, Kamala
Brooke and Daniel came to us in June 2016 for a wedding at Villa Aye in the Kamala Hills. Over more than a year of quiet planning we shaped the practical picture with them — chef, fireworks, a platform over the pool, a pale pink and ivory palette — and on 29 July 2017 held it together from the 9:00 AM setup through to a 1:00 AM close.
Real wedding · Beach ceremony & reception
Debbie & Melissa — A White Beach Wedding & Reception on Layan
One of the most thoroughly planned weddings in our 2017 diary — a simple, white-themed same-sex beach ceremony on Layan for twelve guests, followed by a small reception that we built from nothing on a remote stretch of sand: a custom dance floor, fairy lights, a mini Thai kitchen and a generator, all carried in and carried out again the same night. Debbie and Melissa married on 24 March 2017, took the rain as a blessing, and told us afterwards that we had made their families feel as though they were "in the movies".
Real wedding · Beach ceremony
Viktoriya & Clifford — A Layan Beach Wedding, Ten Months in the Planning
One of the most thoroughly planned weddings in our diary — ten months of correspondence, a living spreadsheet, honest budget conversations, and a rustic-elegant ceremony on Layan Beach in blue, gold and white. Viktoriya and Clifford married on 9 March 2017, walked in to "Fly Me to the Moon", and signed the marriage certificate under the gazebo so the day never lost its thread.
Real wedding · Beach wedding
Julio & Susana — A Surprise Layan Beach Wedding in Spanish
Eleven years in, Julio wanted to marry Susana without telling her. He wrote to us in late December 2016 with his daughter Mariel handling the English, and on 1 February 2017 the three of them stood on Layan Beach for a small, personal ceremony — vows in Spanish, Coldplay on the speakers, and a package tailored down to fit the family's budget.
Real wedding · Beach wedding
Laurianne & Salah — A Phuket Beach Wedding in February 2017
The story of Laurianne and Salah's wedding in February 2017 is a testament to the idea that the most memorable celebrations are defined not just by the main event, but by the personal connections and support shared along the way.
Real wedding · Vow renewal
Sara & Brendan Hodge — A Layan Beach 10th-Anniversary Vow Renewal with the Children as Witnesses
In August 2016 Sara Hodge wrote to Unique Phuket to plan a vow renewal for her and her husband Brendan on Layan Beach the following February — a family celebration for their 10th anniversary, with their two children as witnesses, a pre-ceremony Thai monks blessing to honour Sara's late father, and a third colour of sand carried into the unity ceremony in his memory.
Real wedding · Buddhist blessing · Beach photoshoot
Sheridan & Trent — A Wat Chalong Blessing and a Family Beach Photoshoot
Married already in Australia, Sheridan and Trent came to Phuket in early 2017 to mark the day properly with their daughter Alisha — a five-monk blessing at Wat Chalong followed by a family beach photoshoot on Layan and Patong. What could have been a straightforward booking became a warm, months-long correspondence with the Unique Phuket team, resolved with the couple's trademark good humour.
Real wedding · Vow renewal
Kumar & Viji — A Surprise Anniversary: Wat Chalong Monks Blessing & Layan Beach Vow Renewal
In early December 2016, Kumar's uncle Ganesan Viswanathan — GV — wrote to us wanting to plan a surprise 10th-anniversary celebration for his nephew and his wife Viji. The couple were staying at Villa Baan Sung Thai in Kamala and had been told only that they were going on a temple visit. What they did not know was that GV, working with Paul and Supparin, had built a full day around them: a formal Thai monks blessing at Wat Chalong in the early afternoon, then a private drive across the island to Layan Beach for a sunset vow renewal, fireworks and a fire show.
Real wedding · Beach wedding
Marco & Sunee — A Layan Beach Wedding for Friends & Neighbours
Marco and Sunee were already married when they came to us. What they had never had were their wedding pictures. On 17 December 2016, Unique Phuket set up a small ceremony on Layan Beach for our friends and neighbours, with Chaloem Ton Loysamut behind the camera and Toom's flowers on the sand — the pictures they had been waiting for.
Real wedding · Villa destination wedding
Stephan & Diana — A Villa Destination Wedding at Villa Baan Chang Thai
Stephan and Diana wrote to us in July 2016 with a clear picture of a Swiss villa destination wedding on Phuket: around forty-five guests from across the world, a Buddhist monk blessing to open the day, and a ceremony at Villa Baan Chang Thai in the Kamala Hills. From that first exchange to the last firework on the evening of 28 December, the planning stayed personal — Paul, Supparin (Toom) and the team held the day steady around the couple.
Real wedding · Beach ceremony
Marc & Lilian — A Layan Beach Wedding Across Three Continents
Champagne tastes and a beer budget, in Barbara's own words — and a wedding on Layan Beach that bridged South Africa, China and Thailand without ever losing its warmth. Marc and Lilian married at 4:30pm on 29 November 2016 under a bamboo gazebo dressed in pink, white, purple and yellow, with David Gray on the walk in and Bruno Mars on the walk out.
Real wedding · Beach ceremony
Sharon & Christopher — A Coordinator-to-Coordinator Wedding at Bliss Beach Club
Sharon works as a Development and Events Coordinator in Melbourne, and the planning conversation with Toom and Paul at Unique Phuket ran in a language they all recognised — clear, efficient, and honest about trade-offs. On 10 October 2016 that shared shorthand became an eight-guest beach ceremony at Bliss Beach Club, held under a flower arch with a VIP room in reserve for the weather.
Real wedding · Villa ceremony
George & Gan Wan Wei — A Villa Sanyanga Wedding Built on the Spreadsheet
From the first inquiry in the summer of 2016, George ran the correspondence with the diligence of someone who plans events for a living. The "Wedding Spreadsheet" grew alongside the vision, and on 13 August the digital plan became a real day at Villa Sanyanga — a Western ceremony flowing into a Chinese tea ceremony, an R&B-to-Jay-Chou soundtrack curated with DJ Shane, and a group of guests from Malaysia who left at midnight.
Real wedding · Vow renewal
Lesley & Shayne — A Rain-Blessed Vow Renewal on Layan Beach
Come sunshine or tropical storm, Lesley and Shayne's Layan Beach vow renewal was still a beautiful one. This Australian couple flew in with their family and friends, whispered their own cheeky vows to each other, and were told by a local in Patong that the rain was a good sign — that the gods were pleased and wanted to attend the ceremony.
Real wedding · Vow renewal
Denis & Rene — A 25th-Anniversary Vow Renewal on Layan Beach
Twenty-five years in, Denis and Rene Taylor came back to the beach. Their daughter Hayley led the planning, Pastor Nok Moody wrote a vow renewal outline around the strength of a quarter-century, and on 11 May 2016 the whole family stood on Layan Beach for a small, personal silver-anniversary ceremony.
Real wedding · Beach & villa ceremony
Tara & Anton — A Layan Beach & Villa Wedding
Thirteen revisions of a wedding spreadsheet, three continents on email, and a day that ran from a villa ceremony at Salafa to a fire show on Layan Beach. Tara and Anton Sensky married on 7 April 2016 — one of the most detailed, most collaborative and most joyful weddings on our books.
Real wedding · Beach club
Natasha & Adrian — A Beach Club Wedding at O2, Chalong
One of the first weddings the team still cites by name. Natasha and Adrian treated their destination day as a production — a baby elephant welcome, a Krabi fire show, a live Filipino duo, a cabaret — and the O2 Beach Club wooden deck held all of it with room to breathe. Years later we still open the O2 conversation with new clients by describing the setup from Natasha and Adrian's wedding.
Real wedding · Buddhist blessing & beach ceremony
Agathe & Rolant — A Private Family Wedding at Bliss Beach
A deliberately small day — the couple, their two daughters, and no other guests. Agathe and Rolant began the morning at a local Phuket temple with the abbot and four monks, moved to Bliss Beach Club for a Western ceremony on the sand, and closed the day with a sunset dinner for four beneath a decorated bamboo gazebo.
Real wedding · Beach ceremony
Benz & Yen Linh — A Hua Beach Wedding and Villa Reception in Kamala
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.
Real wedding · Villa wedding
Brian & Alecia — A Sri Panwa Private Villa Wedding
On 8 August 2014 Brian and Alecia married at Sri Panwa Private Villa. The brief was small — a bouquet, a corsage, two gazebo arrangements, a short Methodist-style ceremony. On the day, Toom quietly went further than the invoice, and the bride cried when she saw the aisle.
Still forming the question
Talk to Paul & Supparin first.
If a date, a ceremony shape, a venue or the paperwork is not yet clear, please start with a conversation rather than a formal brief. Paul and Supparin reply personally, in plain language, and will tell you what we honestly think before anything else.
Before you enquire
What planning a wedding with us actually looks like.
A wedding on Phuket is a small number of decisions made carefully, not a long checklist completed in a hurry. This page is our quiet brief on how we work with couples — so you can decide whether the rhythm suits you before any commitment is asked of either side.
What happens after you write
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Paul or Supparin reply within a working day
Usually within one Phuket working day. The reply is a considered note, not a brochure — what is achievable on your date, where it should sit on the island, and the two or three concrete next steps.
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We hold a call when it helps
Many couples prefer a short video call before committing. It is the fastest way to test whether we are the right fit, and to talk through venue, season and the practical brief.
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A written quote, line by line
When the brief is clear we issue a written quote — every supplier named, every line itemised, every assumption stated. You can change any line before you sign.
How Paul & Supparin work
Two planners, every wedding.
Paul leads the planning conversation, writes the quote, officiates the ceremony, and is the on-the-day point of contact for the couple. Supparin (Toom) leads the in-house floral and styling work, runs the installation, and is the on-the-day point of contact for the venue and the suppliers.
Communication is by email and short calls — calm, responsive, and in English. We do not work to a sales script and we will not pressure a date. Couples who choose to plan with us almost always do so after a considered conversation, not on a first reply.
Planning here is unhurried by design. The wedding is one day; the months before it are a relationship.
Planning from overseas
A planning team used to planning across time zones.
Most couples we plan with live in another country and arrive in Phuket close to the wedding date. Fifteen years of doing this means the rhythm is unhurried for you — we site-visit on your behalf, share photographs and short films, hold calls at sensible hours, and carry the local logistics so you do not have to.
Where a site visit is possible, it is welcome but never required. Couples who arrive only a few days before the wedding are met, briefed in person, and walked through the day before we run it.
Asked often, answered briefly
When should we start planning?
Twelve months is comfortable for a villa or resort wedding. Six months is enough for an elopement or a beach ceremony. Shorter is sometimes possible — please ask before assuming it is not.
Do you only plan large weddings?
No. Elopements and small beach ceremonies are a meaningful part of what we do. The two of you on a quiet beach is taken as seriously as eighty guests at a villa.
Will Paul or Supparin be there on the day?
Yes. Paul officiates the ceremonies, Supparin leads the floral and styling install, and one of them is the on-the-day point of contact. The wedding is not handed off.
Are we tied to specific venues or suppliers?
No. We recommend venues and suppliers we know personally and will tell you honestly where they suit you and where they do not. If you arrive with a venue in mind, we will plan around it.
Where to read next
The planning companion →
Costs, paperwork, season and the practical brief.
Pricing →
What ceremony packages start at, and how villa and resort weddings are quoted.
Reviewed venues →
Beaches, villas and resorts we have personally worked at.
Real weddings →
Verified weddings we have planned and run — with photographs and couples' words.
When the picture is clear
Begin your formal enquiry.
A short, considered form covering your date, guest count, ceremony shape and venue preference. Paul or Supparin reply personally — usually within one Phuket working day — with the two or three concrete next steps for your wedding.