Seven Sensational Hotels for Weddings

By Mary Gostelow | Editor-in-chief of WOW.travel, the online magazine of kiwicollection.com

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1. The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, Japan

The hotel's wedding advisor can help you with municipal government registration before a ceremony in the Midtown hotel's own chapel, designed by Frank Nicholson. In typical Japanese style, you have probably had several pre-wedding teas, and enjoyed the 46th-floor spa. Service everywhere will be exquisite: General Manager Ricco de Blank's new book Passion For Service became a best-seller its first week.

2. Montpelier Plantation Inn, Nevis, West Indies

Tim and Meredith Hoffman, and his mother Muffin, own this 17-room hilltop retreat on an 18th century sugar plantation. Hold the ceremony in the remains of the sugar tower, reached up 11 stone steps, take photos in front of the giant figus tree, and hold the celebrations afterwards in the barrel-ceiling Great House. Employ the characterful TC as your personal lady chauffeur.

3. Stoke Park, Near Windsor, England

The stylish Giammario Ragnoli, from Lake Como, is new General Manager of this 21-bedroom hotel, once owned by Queen Elizabeth I and, later, by Pennsylvania founder William Penn. Several James Bond movies were partly shot here. It is a highly popular wedding venue - and comes with a 27-hole parkland golf course, 13 tennis courts and one indoor pool.

4. Palazzo Terranova, Near Perugia, Italy

Owned by the highly-cultured Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny, the palace, built on a distant mountain in 1800, has all ten luxury bedrooms sporting unique decoration. Marry privately, surrounded by 360 degrees of wooded mountains. General Manager Valentina Morriconi can arrange whatever you want, poolside, in the charming orangery or the main house.

5. Le Touessrok, Mauritius, Indian Ocean

Marry barefoot on a grassy knoll flanked by palm trees, with the ocean a few feet away - Bill Bensley designed these lovely gardens. Plant a commemorative seedling (and come back, year after year, to watch 'your tree' grow). Among the many choices for the reception is Paul & Virginia restaurant on the nearby Ile aux Cerfs. Jörg Roterberg is General Manager of the 168-room resort.

6. Conrad Bali, Indonesia

The unique wedding chapel here, designed by Anthony Liu, Isandra Martin and Ferry Ridwan, is best described as two mammoth side walls that meet overhead, with both ends open so you look over the ocean to infinity. For the reception, there are over six acres of grounds, with inland lagoons, for you to choose, and ask General Manager Michael Burchett for one of the sensational new Conrad Suites, designed by LTW, for the lucky couple.

7. Meadowood Napa Valley, St. Helena, California

Among the myriad wedding venues on this idyllic 250-acre estate are in-vineyard and by-croquet lawn spots. Chef Vincent Nattress will cater magnificently, perhaps including Sterling Caviar from nearby Sacramento, and choose a Harlan Estate or, our favorite, Screaming Eagle wine (their respective owners also own Meadowood). Hillside villa 92, one of the sexiest we know, is a great bridal suite.

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