Pattaya Wedding Packages: Prices and What Each Tier Includes

By Wedding in Thailand — updated 2026

A package is a useful starting point and a poor basis for comparison unless you read it carefully. This guide sets out what each Pattaya tier includes, what sits outside it and how to compare two quotes properly, alongside our complete Pattaya wedding guide. For destination guidance the Tourism Authority of Thailand is a useful reference. These are indicative 2026 planning figures rather than quotes, so confirm current prices when you enquire.

How Pattaya venues package a wedding

Nearly every resort on this coast quotes weddings as a package rather than as a list of separate costs, and the structure is consistent enough across properties to compare if you know what to look for. A package bundles the ceremony setup, a celebrant, basic florals, some photography and usually a food-and-drink element at a per-head rate or a minimum spend. What varies is how much of each is included and where the floor sits.

Per-head rates and minimum spends

Resorts generally price the reception per head and attach a minimum spend to the function space, which means a small wedding at a large resort pays the minimum rather than its headcount. Ask for the minimum spend figure in the first enquiry, because it is the real floor on your budget and it is also the number that moves on a weekday or outside the November to February peak.

Why Pattaya packages are good value

Pattaya was built for mass tourism, so its hotel and banqueting capacity is enormous relative to the number of weddings held here. That imbalance works in your favour: properties negotiate on minimum spends, room blocks and inclusions more readily than island resorts do, and the same package specification typically lands twenty to thirty per cent below a Phuket equivalent. Our national cost guide sets the comparison out.

The entry tier: beach ceremony only

The smallest packages cover a ceremony and nothing else, and they are genuinely complete for what they are: a styled setup on the sand, a celebrant, flowers and a short photography session. They suit elopements, couples with a handful of guests, and anyone holding their real reception at home. At this level you are buying about two hours of the venue’s attention rather than a day of it.

What is usually included

Expect an arch or styled setup on the beach, chairs for a small number of guests, a sound system for the ceremony, a bouquet and buttonhole, a celebrant for a symbolic ceremony, a certificate from the venue and one to two hours of photography. Some properties add a small cake and sparkling wine for a toast, and many include a night in a room or suite as part of the price.

What it costs and what it excludes

This tier runs roughly 45,000 to 120,000 THB depending on the property and how much photography is included. It excludes any reception, so dinner is either at the resort restaurant on an ordinary bill or elsewhere entirely. See our beach weddings guide for the ceremony settings and our cost breakdown for what a dinner adds. Several resorts will also waive or discount the ceremony fee entirely if you book a reception with them, so ask before treating this tier as a standalone purchase.

The mid tier: ceremony and reception

This is where most Pattaya weddings sit, and the package covers the ceremony plus a seated dinner or buffet reception for a real guest list. The step up from the entry tier is not just scale — you acquire a banqueting team, a wet-weather room, a bar arrangement and a coordinator from the venue, all of which change how much work the day takes from you.

What is usually included

The ceremony elements above, plus a reception venue — beach, lawn, terrace or ballroom — with tables, chairs, linen, basic centrepieces, a set menu or buffet at a per-head rate, a drinks package or corkage arrangement, a sound system and often a wedding cake. Venue coordination on the day is normally included, though it is not the same as a planner.

What it costs

For thirty to eighty guests this tier runs roughly 250,000 to 600,000 THB at a four-star Jomtien resort and 400,000 to 900,000 THB at a five-star property at Na Jomtien or Wong Amat. The spread within those ranges is driven mostly by the menu and drinks selection rather than by the ceremony, so that is where to focus if you need to move the number.

The top tier: full resort wedding

At the top of the market, packages become specifications rather than lists: exclusive use of a ceremony area and function space, a styled reception designed for your wedding rather than from a standard menu of options, premium catering and drinks, entertainment and often a multi-day structure with a welcome dinner and a farewell brunch attached to the wedding itself.

What is usually included

Full event styling with a designed floral and lighting scheme, premium menu and open bar, extended photography and often video, a live band or DJ, suite accommodation for the couple, a welcome event and a next-day brunch, and dedicated staff through the whole stay. Exclusive use of a beach section or lawn is usually explicit at this level rather than assumed.

What it costs

Expect 900,000 to 2,500,000 THB for eighty to a hundred and fifty guests at a five-star beachfront property, and beyond that for a villa buyout or a fully designed event. Our venues guide covers the properties that operate at this level and our cost breakdown shows how the money divides across the day. At this level the package is a starting specification rather than a fixed list, and most properties expect to negotiate the inclusions around what your wedding actually needs.

Package tiers compared

The table sets the three tiers side by side so you can see what the money buys at each step and where your own guest count lands. Treat the figures as indicative 2026 planning ranges for the package element only, before travel, accommodation for guests and anything you bring in from outside. The jump between tiers is mostly catering rather than ceremony, which is why guest count moves your total far more than the style of the wedding does.

What sits outside the package

Budgets in Pattaya overrun on the lines outside the package far more often than on the package itself, and most of them are predictable. Ask about each of the items below before you compare two quotes, because one venue may have several of them inside its number and another may not, which makes the cheaper headline the more expensive wedding.

• Service charge and VAT, which together add around seventeen per cent if the quote is net.
• Corkage if you bring your own wine, or a mandatory drinks package if you cannot.
• Outside vendor fees for a photographer, planner or florist you bring in yourself.
• Extending the reception past the noise curfew, charged by the hour.
• Guest transport along the bay and minivans from Bangkok or Suvarnabhumi.
• Hair, makeup, attire, rings and the marriage registration in Bangkok if you want a certificate.
• A wet-weather room, if the quote treats it as an add-on rather than a standard inclusion.

Reading two quotes properly

Comparing packages is a mechanical exercise once you normalise them, and it is worth the hour it takes because the differences are routinely large enough to change which venue you choose. The method below reduces two very different-looking documents to a single comparable figure, and it also surfaces the questions you should have asked before the site visit.

Normalise to a total for your actual guest count

Take each quote, add service charge and VAT if they are quoted net, multiply the per-head elements by your real guest number rather than the sample number in the quote, and add the external items each one omits. Our guide to the 17.7 per cent on Thai quotes explains how the tax and service lines compound, which is the single most common misreading.

Then compare on what is genuinely different

Once the totals are comparable, the choice comes down to the things a spreadsheet cannot hold: whether the ceremony area is private to you, whether the indoor alternative is somewhere you would actually want to hold a wedding, how the sunset falls on your date and whether the coordinator you met will be there on the day. Those are the questions worth a site visit.

How to choose a Pattaya package

Four steps take you from an enquiry to a booked package without the two common errors: choosing on headline price, and discovering the external costs after a deposit. A local planner will often pay for themselves at the mid and top tiers simply by reading quotes properly, and our planner cost guide explains how they charge. For guest travel the TAT Newsroom carries current updates.

1. Fix your guest count and decide whether you need a reception at all, since that sets your tier.
2. Request full written packages from three or four properties, asking explicitly for the minimum spend figure.
3. Normalise each quote to a total for your real numbers with tax, service charge and external items added.
4. Negotiate on a weekday or shoulder-season date, then confirm inclusions and the wet-weather plan in writing.

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