Romantic Hotels & Resorts

More and more couples are exchanging their vows in the Caribbean. Many resorts will arrange everything from the preacher to the flowers, so we've included in the following list some outfits that provide wedding services.

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Cap Juluca (Anguilla): This resort boasts a unique postmodern design, multimillion-dollar decor, and a thrillingly beautiful beach. The result resembles a Saharan Casbah with domed villas that seem to float against the scrubland and azure sky. It's an extremely stylish setting for romance. More than any other resort on Anguilla, Cap Juluca affords privacy with its 72 hectares (178 acres). In a private villa, honeymooners enjoy private pools and huge tubs for two. You can join other guests for meals and/or retreat into total seclusion.

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St. James's Club (Antigua): There are enough diversions at this very posh, British-style resort to keep a honeymooning couple up and about for weeks. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included, along with unlimited drinks. Among the perks is a private, candlelit dinner for two in a romantic setting. Honeymooners are greeted with a bottle of champagne and freshly cut bougainvillea in their rooms, which can be private villas, suites, or, for complete seclusion, a hillside home. Unlike Cap Juluca, which promotes seclusion, this is for honeymooners who prefer an active lifestyle, gambling at the casino, taking in the beach, or enjoying the widest array of dining and drinking options of any hotel on the island.

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Biras Creek Estate (Virgin Gorda, B.V.I.): If you're eager to escape your in-laws and bridesmaids after a wedding ceremony, this is the place. It's a quintessential mariner's hideaway that can be reached only via a several-mile boat ride across the open sea. Perched on a narrow promontory jutting into the Caribbean, it's an intensely private retreat set on 60 hectares (148 acres) with a crisscrossing network of signposted nature trails. Spacious, open-air, walled showers are provided in each bathroom. Honeymooners come here not to be pampered, but to be left alone to do their thing. Entertainment and dancing enliven some evenings, but for the most part you'll enjoy utter tranquillity. Its king-size beds are the best on the island. Don't come here for a lot of activities.

Peter Island Resort (Peter Island, B.V.I.): Romantics appreciate the isolation of this resort, on a 720-hectare (1,778-acre) private island south of Tortola and east of St. John. Reaching it requires a 30-minute waterborne transfer, which many urban refugees consider part of the fun. It's very laid-back -- bring your new spouse and a good book, and enjoy the comings and goings of yachts at the island's private marina while you recover from the stress of your wedding.

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Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman (Grand Cayman) Hands down, this is the most glamorous and best-landscaped resort in the Cayman Islands. Honeymooners can buy a package that includes champagne and wine, a room with an oversize bed, a 1-day jeep rental, a romantic sundowner sail on a 12m (39-ft.) catamaran, and discounts at clothing stores, the resort's restaurants, and a golf course. They'll even present you with a honeymoon memento for your home.

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Sutton Place Hotel (Dominica): If you want something completely different, head for the remote island of Dominica. It's an inexpensive destination, with a lush, tropical setting. Although the beaches aren't great there is river swimming. Start off your married life at this romantic old place, where Princess Margaret and Noël Coward retreated in days of yore (not together). Opt for one of the top-floor suites for a real romantic getaway, and relax in your four-poster bed.

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Sandals Royal Caribbean (Jamaica): There are a handful of members of this resort chain in Jamaica alone (plus three others on St. Lucia, one in Turks and Caicos, and yet another one on the island of Antigua that is far less grand). Each prides itself on providing an all-inclusive (cash-free) environment where meals are provided in abundance. Enthusiastic members of the staff bring heroic amounts of community spirit to ceremonies celebrated on-site. Sandals provides everything from a preacher to petunias (as well as champagne, a cake, and all the legalities) for you to get hitched here. Any of these resorts can provide a suitable setting, but one of the most appealing is Sandals Royal Caribbean, outside Montego Bay, Jamaica.

The SuperClubs of Jamaica These all-inclusive properties, including the Breezes and the Grand Lido hotels, are for honeymooners who can afford a little more elegance and luxury. They operate somewhat like Sandals, but have far more style and a higher price tag. Prices are high in winter, but when mid-April arrives, rates plummet. SuperClubs, such as Grand Lido and Grand Lido Sans Souci, are scattered between Ocho Rios and Negril. If you pay for the food-and-room packages, the hotel chain will throw in the wedding for free -- providing the license, the witnesses, the minister, and even a two-tier cake. You can be married in the garden or on a white-sandy beach.

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Wyndham El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door Spa (Puerto Rico): A complex of hotels set on a forested bluff overlooking the sea, this is one of the most lavish resorts ever built in the Caribbean. The architecture incorporates Moorish gardens and Andalusian fortresses. You'll find hammocks for two on the resort's offshore private island, as well as about a dozen private Jacuzzis artfully concealed by vegetation throughout the grounds.

The Horned Dorset Primavera (Puerto Rico): This is the most elegant, intimate, secluded, romantic inn in Puerto Rico. It has private plunge pools; a cantilevered porch over the sea perfect for champagne at sunset; a fabulous candlelit restaurant; vast, well-equipped bathrooms with tubs big enough for two; seaview balconies; romantic four-poster beds; and a discreet, helpful staff that doesn't interfere with honeymooners who want to be alone.

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Golden Lemon Inn & Villas (St. Kitts): It started its life as a French manor house during the 17th century, but by the time its present owners began restoring it, the Golden Lemon was decidedly less glamorous. It required the refined tastes of Arthur Leaman, a former editor at House & Garden, to bring it to its full potential. Today the Golden Lemon is an authentic Antillean retreat -- luxurious, laid-back, and romantic -- set in an isolated fishing village loaded with charm.

Four Seasons Resort Nevis (Nevis): Though not as historic as some of the island's plantation-style inns, the Four Seasons rules without peer as the most deluxe hotel on the island, with the most extensive facilities. Set in a palm grove adjacent to the island's finest beach, it has the atmosphere of a supremely indulgent country club. The Four Seasons offers a 4-day wedding package with a choice of ceremony styles (in a church or on a beach, with a judge or with a civil magistrate). The resort's pastry chef designs each wedding cake individually, and the staff can arrange music, photographs, flowers, legalities, and virtually anything else you want.

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Anse Chastanet (St. Lucia): Offering panoramic views of mountains and jungle, this intimate hotel is a winner with romantics. With its small size, it offers a lot of privacy and rustic charm. Its wedding package includes all legal processing, a wedding cake, and champagne, and add-ons cover everything from photography to a post-wedding sunset sail.

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Petit St. Vincent Resort (The Grenadines): If your idea of a honeymoon is to run away from everybody except your new spouse, this is the place. It takes about three planes and a boat to reach it, but the effort to get here is worth it, if you want total isolation and privacy. Even the staff doesn't bother you unless you raise a flag for room service. If the honeymoon's going well, you may never have to leave your stone cottage by the beach. The artfully built clubhouses and bungalows were crafted from tropical woods and local stone. The results are simultaneously rustic and lavish.

The Cotton House (The Grenadines): Cosmopolitan and stylish, this hotel was built as a cotton warehouse on the tiny island of Mustique during the 18th century. It's intimate, exclusive, and full of undeniable charm and romance.

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Le Grand Courlan Resort & Spa (Tobago): This is the favorite honeymoon retreat on Tobago. If you want to be fussed over, you and your new spouse can attend the spa for "release massages," or you can be left entirely alone to enjoy the bay outside your window or the sandy beach at your doorstep. From Guyanan hardwood to Italian porcelain, the decor is refined and elegant.

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