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Destination Weddings The Faraway Villa Have it your way! The Faraway Wedding Experience- take a journey through a wedding day. Villa Resort Weddings-Pawanthorn Luxury Villas Booking and Planning Information.
Have it Your Way! Faraway Wedding Experiences.
Flexibility is vital when organizing a destination wedding. This is why, within the structure of any Faraway Wedding package, we encourage you to customize and personalize to ensure a unique wedding experience. By using our unique interactive wedding planning tools, combined with regular communication with your personal wedding planner, you can create a very individual wedding. For example, you can choose your colour scheme, and we will then tie in all other decorations to match. You can provide your own vows, choose from pre-written samples, or use the vow selector to create totally unique vows for you. There are also a variety of wedding ceremonial designs available which are exclusive to Faraway Weddings clients. All of our wedding packages have been specifically designed to offer a complete wedding experience which is suitable for most circumstances, from just the couple to larger groups of up to 50 guests. Once you choose the package you want, and a suitable guest package, you are not tied into anything else and will not need to purchase any other hidden extras. What has proven to be one of the biggest attractions of a Faraway Wedding experience at the Faraway Villa, has been our bar system. Uniquely, we operate a wholesale bar system. We simply calculate a bar set-up cost to cover glass hire and staff required for the number of attendees. Drinks are then ordered and purchased at wholesale prices (+approx 5% to cover sourcing and purchasing) and we do not charge any corkage if you intend bringing in any duty free alcohol. At the end of the night any alcohol left is yours to take away, maybe to use for an after-wedding party. Similarly, as independent wedding planners, we do not attempt to tie you into accommodation. Clients having a wedding at the Faraway Villa have the freedom to choose wherever they want to stay. However, we can recommend and arrange accommodation for you and your guests and because of our reputation on the island we can sometimes negotiate good rates on your behalf. Each member of the Faraway team is trained, experienced and dedicated to ensuring that your wedding day goes smoothly and according to plan. Our team not only excels at the pre-wedding planning, but also in the on-day coordination and execution. At the Faraway Villa you can choose from the following wedding experiences:
Secular Beach Wedding Buddhist Beach Wedding Secular and Buddhist Beach Wedding Christian Beach Wedding Buddhist Temple Wedding (beach photographs and reception held at Faraway Villa) Catholic Church Wedding (beach photographs and reception held at Faraway Villa) Green Beach Wedding
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Villa Resort Weddings Faraway Weddings currently works with Pawanthorn Samui Villas, a luxury villa estate which is managed and operated in a similar way to a resort complex. As far as our villa resort wedding experience is concerned, we have based it on our current Secular Beach Wedding Experience. The general idea is that you receive the same quality and level of service synonymous with Faraway Weddings, together with the convenience of you and some of your guests staying within the luxury villas. Faraway Weddings will coordinate everything for you, from the wedding to the reception and even the accommodation. We would act as a liaison between yourself and the villa resort right from the very start and all the way through to the conclusion.
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With our villa resort venue there is a minimum stay policy required when booking a wedding. It is also important to highlight at the earliest stage that despite these venues being very high-end properties, our luxury villa resort experiences are flexible but structured wedding packages, which work in the same way as the Faraway Villa Wedding experiences. The unique luxury villas at Pawanthorn provide an exceptionally private and spectacular wedding venue. The beachside terrace has been created with weddings in mind and the beach, with its natural rock formations provides a picture perfect scene for our luxury Faraway Wedding Experience.
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Pawanthorn Villa Samui is an exclusive beachfront estate comprising of three luxurious and totally unique villas.
Each villa has a different theme of dÊcor and influence, and each has been designed to fit around the natural landscape of the estate. The first follows a traditional Thai theme and has been named after the Thai national flower, Ratchaphruek. The second is based on the traditions, customs and architectural designs of the Chinese. This villa is also named after the Chinese flower of beauty, Mei. The third and final villa takes it’s inspiration from India and is named after the national flower of India, the Lotus.
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Each villa shares a naturally stunning location through which you are guided on a meandering stone pathway which leads through the grounds and directly onto a very beautiful and private beach area facing the island of Koh Matlang. The sandy beach is surrounded by naturally built rock formations providing a picture-postcard backdrop. Set slightly elevated above the beach is a communal stone terraced area which provides an exceptional space for sunbathing. It is also a very large area which is perfect for weddings. The design of the villas, together with the landscaping, comes together to complement the natural beauty and harmony of the area. The Pawanthorn Villas offer outstanding accommodation options in an extremely convenient location; ideally placed in terms of the airport, shopping and entertainment centres and with the kind of privacy which is increasingly hard to find on Samui. Our Pawanthorn Villa Wedding Experience has been designed to incorporate everything needed for an exceptional private villa wedding. The unique luxury villas at Pawanthorn provide an exceptionally private and spectacular wedding venue. The beachside terrace has been created with weddings in mind and the beach, with its natural rock formations provides a picture-perfect scene for our luxury Faraway Wedding Experience. This wedding experience has a requirement for Mei and Lotus to be occupied for the wedding to ensure your privacy and also so that no other guests would be disturbed by the wedding.
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Faraway Legal Marriage Service The Faraway Legal Marriage Service, is a comprehensive package that assures complete legalisation of marriage for foreigners in Thailand.
Rather than registering your marriage first or having to go through the lengthy process yourselves, this service will leave you free to enjoy your travels and most importantly, your wedding ceremony. All you need to do is bring passports and photocopies of the front page of your passports. We will inform you of any additional requirements as per individual embassies, such as previous divorce papers and individual embassy fees. You will then be met at your embassy in Bangkok by the Faraway Legal Representative who will guide you through the process of signing the necessary paperwork. After that you are free to continue with your travels. Our legal representative will have the documents translated at an authorised translation bureau and then take them to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for processing and endorsement. This will take approximately two days and then the documents are couriered to our office in Koh Samui. Faraway will then have a meeting with the Koh Samui City Council, where your paperwork will be endorsed. We then arrange for the Registrar to be present at your marriage ceremony with your marriage certificate, ready to be signed. We can also have this translated into English and sent onto you at a later date if your visit to Samui is a short one. If you wish to utilise this service, you will need to be in Bangkok at least six working days prior to your ceremony date on Koh Samui. You only need stay in Bangkok for a maximum of two days and then you can go on your travels. Your documents will be ready for signing at your ceremony six working days later.
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Booking Information Booking your wedding with us: All that’s needed to lock in the date of your choice and secure our services is a non-refundable deposit of 10,000 baht. A further payment (50% of the chosen wedding experience price) is then required 6 months prior to the wedding date. Another payment (50% of total outstanding wedding cost) is requested 30 days before the date of your wedding and the final outstanding balance is settled two to three days before the wedding at the pre-meeting. Faraway Weddings never organizes more than one wedding a day so, once a deposit is paid, that date is dedicated for your wedding alone. A wedding date is not confirmed until a deposit is received. However, upon payment of the deposit, a wedding date can be moved, subject to availability, at no additional cost. No refunds are provided in the event of a cancellation. All that’s needed to lock in the date of your choice and secure our services is a non-refundable deposit of 10,000 baht. A further payment (50% of the chosen wedding experience price) is then required 6 months prior to the wedding date. Another payment (50% of total outstanding wedding cost) is requested 30 days before the date of your wedding and the final outstanding balance is settled two to three days before the wedding at the pre-meeting. Faraway Weddings never organizes more than one wedding a day so, once a deposit is paid, that date is dedicated for your wedding alone. A wedding date is not confirmed until a deposit is received. However, upon payment of the deposit, a wedding date can be moved, subject to availability, at no additional cost. No refunds are provided in the event of a cancellation.