Villa Thansamaay — beachfront wedding venue in Koh Samui, Thailand

The estate

A place to begin everything.

A seven-bedroom house on the Koh Samui shoreline, Villa Thansamaay is a private residence whose grounds give directly onto the sand, the Gulf beyond them. The address is Surat Thani, and the property serves as somewhere to stay as much as somewhere to marry. A booking holds the villa, its grounds and all seven bedrooms, so the closest circle sleeps on site instead of arriving on the morning. A ceremony sits where the lawn meets the beach, with the grounds and the sand holding the reception afterwards. Seventy guests is the ceiling, more people than the house sleeps, which makes the wider party a daytime arrival and the bedrooms a matter of who stays on. Capacity is seventy, with seven bedrooms for those staying. There is no published rate: pricing is on request, so a figure has to be asked for against a specific date. The property is what exclusive use buys, with catering, styling, furniture and staffing priced apart from it. Settle first how many nights the villa is held, which of the seventy sleep there, and how the beach frontage behaves at high water.