He Took 163 Flights to Get to Her: Kiki & Thavidu's Wedding at COMO Point Yamu, Phuket
- Author: Natali Grace Levine
- Wedding date: 10/10/2025
- City: Phuket
Love Story
"He took 163 flights and flew 344,000 miles to make it work."
It started, of all places, in a pandemic. Thav was stuck in Phuket in quarantine, renewing his US visa. Kiki was in lockdown in Bangkok, bored enough to open a dating app and swipe right on a stranger. They matched on OkCupid — and then, when Thav made it to Bangkok, matched again on Bumble, which reminded Kiki she had forgotten to reply to the first one. They laugh about that now.
What followed was 3.5 years of long distance between Bangkok and San Francisco — Thav flying over as often as he could, racking up 163 flights and 344,000 miles in the process. When they couldn't be together in person, they figured out another way: VR headsets, virtual movie nights, paintball, skydiving. Kiki had never been a gamer. She became one for him.
The proposal happened on Hong Island, near Phuket — a place they'd visited eight months earlier, where Thav had loved a photo they took at the top. He brought her back under the pretense of recreating it, this time with a photographer he claimed came with their hotel stay as part of a promotion. Kiki had her suspicions — a few weeks earlier, Thav had bolted awake mid-sleep to urgently check whether she'd looked in his backpack, then immediately fallen back unconscious with no memory of the conversation. And that same morning, he had casually asked to borrow her concealer for the first time in his life. She said yes at the top of the hill, with the sea below them and their song playing.
About Your Wedding
Kiki wanted a garden. Thav wanted water. COMO Point Yamu, perched on a cliffside above the Andaman Sea with a lawn that feels like the edge of the world, gave them both — and became the only venue they ever seriously considered.
The concept was a whimsical summer garden: green, pink, and white, with touches of yellow and blue running through every floral arrangement and table setting. Not a conventional wedding, and not one that tried to be. The vision was layered — a day built from dozens of small, carefully placed moments of delight, staggered so deliberately that not one of them felt overwhelming. Live violinists who walked among the guests. A singer so good that half the room didn't realize it was live music until they were already dancing. Painters creating portraits at the tables. And then, in the middle of the cake cutting, fireworks — timed to a specific moment in A Whole New World, their go-to karaoke song — that pushed the room over the edge entirely.
108 guests flew in from around the world, many of them traveling 16 hours or more. Kiki and Thav wanted them to feel, unambiguously, that it was worth every mile.
Morning Details
A three-bedroom villa at COMO Point Yamu, the ocean somewhere beyond the trees, and a dress he still hadn't seen.
Kiki and her family had stayed in the resort's private villa throughout the wedding weekend — and it was there that the morning of October 10th began. The COMO property has a particular quality at that hour: still, lush, and already cinematic before anything has happened. The day that had been a year in the making was finally, quietly, arriving.
Bride Getting Ready
Kiki flew to both Singapore and Hong Kong, looking for her dress — Bangkok, she knew, wouldn't carry what she had in mind. "Fell in love with it after the first Singapore trip, even though it was a little above our budget, but still went to check out Hong Kong and my other appointments just to confirm it was the one." It was. The Chiara by Ines De Santo, found at Truly Enamored in Singapore, and once she had it, everything else fell into place.
Her veil came from NK Bride in New York. Her rings were a story of their own: Thav's, a gold band with a blue sapphire from a small New Zealand jeweler discovered on TikTok. Kiki's Cartier band is paired with her emerald-cut engagement ring, which hangs over it. Both were chosen with the same careful attention that defined every detail of the day. Bridesmaids wore Show Me the Mumu, their dresses carrying the same easy, garden-summer energy as the rest of the celebration. Florals were by I AM FLOWER, whose work extended the whimsical garden concept from the ceremony lawn to the bridal bouquet.
Groom Getting Ready
Thav had originally planned to wear a blue suit made in San Francisco. He changed his mind at the last minute — and was glad he did. His tuxedo, made by Empire Tailors in Bangkok, turned out perfectly: clean, classic, and exactly right for a cliffside garden wedding at one of Phuket's most beautiful properties. He got ready in his own space at COMO Point Yamu, the same resort that was holding the day together around him, the lawn below already being transformed into something extraordinary.
First Look
Next to the pool of the three-bedroom villa — the same villa where Kiki had gotten ready, surrounded by family, the dress hidden from Thav the entire time — they saw each other for the first time.
"Excited to finally see me in the dress cos I had hidden it from him the whole time, and trying not to nervously stumble." Thav's first thought, by his own account, was that she looked amazing in that dress. The pool behind them, the Phuket light doing what it does in the late morning, and a moment that the photographs captured exactly as it was — unguarded, unhurried, and entirely theirs.
Photoshoot Before The Ceremony
The pre-wedding shoot happened months before the wedding itself — and on the other side of the world. Kiki and Thav had traveled to Australia to handle the legal paperwork for their marriage, and turned the trip into an adventure. "We turned it into a trip — Sydney Opera House, Darling Harbour, and then flew down to Melbourne to shoot along the Great Ocean Road since both of us, and our photographer, had always wanted to go there."
The Great Ocean Road images became some of the most cinematic of the entire wedding story: two people, road-tripping through one of the world's most dramatic coastlines, already married on paper, and thoroughly happy about it.
Ceremony
The ceremony took place on the lawn of COMO Point Yamu — a raised, cliffside expanse of green with the ocean visible in every direction, and 108 guests gathered from across the world to witness it. Kiki walked to a live violin rendition of Moon River. Thav walked to James Bond meets Bad Bunny, played live by the violinist duo. Their parents, brother, and sister walked to Jurassic Park — also live. The crowd was already charmed before a single vow had been spoken.
And then came the vows. Neither of them had seen the other's words in advance. "Our vows unexpectedly talked about the complementary half of each other's points." Two people who had spent 3.5 years finding ways to close the distance between Bangkok and San Francisco, standing on a cliffside in Phuket, discovered that they had each written half of the same thing.
Photoshoot After The Ceremony
Married now, with Phuket as their witness — and the whole ocean still ahead of them.
Much of the couple's portrait work had actually taken place earlier in the day, a move that turned out to be one of the best decisions of the entire wedding. Before guests arrived and after the setup was complete, photographer Darin and the Wedding Bliss team suggested a dry run of the ceremony—a rehearsal walk that the camera captured in full. The footage was later spliced with the real ceremony, creating slow-motion moments in which Kiki and Thav appear completely alone on that lawn, the world quiet around them. It was spontaneous, collaborative, and entirely unrepeatable.
Wedding Venue & Decor
"COMO had both the oceanview backdrops and a grassy area that's almost cliffside — it was perfect for us."
COMO Point Yamu sits on the northeastern tip of Phuket, on a peninsula that puts the ocean on multiple sides and the sky directly above. The property's elevated lawn — almost cliffside, as Kiki describes it — provided the exact combination she and Thav had been searching for across Phuket, Koh Samui, Khao Lak, and Pattaya: greenery and water, intimacy and scale, beauty without the risk of a tourist wandering into the background of the ceremony photographs.
The color palette — green, pink, white, with touches of yellow and blue — was carried through the florals by I AM FLOWER with the kind of lush, garden-party specificity that made the whole venue feel like it had grown that way naturally. Personalized menus bore each guest's name. Live painters from Da Clay Studio moved through the reception, creating portraits of the guests as the evening unfolded. The stationery was designed by The Wedding Bliss on the day itself. Every element was considered. Every element earned its place.
Couple's Advice
"Add more than 2 portable ACs to the after-party room."
Reception
The first dance was to Unchained Melody — and then the evening took over entirely.
The food was COMO's Thai set, with small adjustments that proved more popular with guests than anyone had anticipated. The singer — found on Instagram in Bangkok, largely unknown, with a voice so extraordinary that guests didn't realize it was live music until they were already halfway through dinner — held the room between the formal moments. The violinist duo, Roman and Valentine, who had opened the ceremony and spent the cocktail hour moving among guests, eventually led a train from the reception to the after-party, the crowd fully and irreversibly hyped. "Our guests really loved Roman and Valentine — they both helped open the ceremony and then led a train to the after party, really getting the crowd hyped up and going."
And then, mid-cake-cut, A Whole New World began to play — their karaoke song, the one they'd sung together across 3.5 years of long distance — and the fireworks started at exactly the right moment. Multiple guests cried happy tears. Nobody saw it coming.
Behind all of it was The Wedding Bliss Thailand — a team that Kiki and Thavidu describe with something close to reverence. KJ and Bea, the two coordinators assigned specifically to the couple, followed them from 1pm to 11pm without a single detail dropped. "It felt like they were secret service agents assigned to us — coordinating with everyone via headsets and keeping us exactly where we needed to be on time." On the day of the traditional ceremony, Kiki and Thavidu had managed everything themselves while also serving as the bride and groom. The contrast was immediate and overwhelming. "They were such a breath of fresh air — literally felt like a night and day difference."
Darinimages photographer effectively co-directed the day alongside the Wedding Bliss team — her four assistants moving through the venue with the same precision as the planners, the whole operation running with a production-to-guest ratio of approximately three to one.Videographer Keith Scott Films — a married couple, Keith and his wife Maeva, who flew in from Australia — brought a quality to the weekend that Kiki and Thavidu felt from their very first video call. "From the very first time we met them over video call, we could truly feel their love for each other emanating through the screen." That calm, present energy was visible throughout the entire day, and it shows in every frame.
Between the planner's crew, the lighting team from Phuket Lighting, the florist's team from I AM FLOWER, the photographers' assistants, the videographer's crew, and the drones overhead — it was, by every account, exactly as extraordinary as it sounds.
Wedding Team
- Planner The Wedding Bliss
- Photographers @darinimages
- Videographer @keithscottfilms
- Florist @iamflower.co
- Violinist Duo @divo.duo
- Band @angie.voc
- Live-Painters @daclaystudio
- Lighting @phuketlighting
- MC @emceeable
- Makeup Artist @tinaderkse_brides @pupiew_makeupartist @phuket.make.up
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