A bath fit for a bride at Ayana Resort & Spa, in Bali

A bath fit for a bride at Ayana Resort & Spa, in Bali

Some resorts prep for a wedding by throwing a little tulle on a gazebo and chilling some bubbly. But if you’re looking for a place where weddings aren’t just accommodated, they’re embraced, exalted, and elevated to a whole new level, consider Bali’s Ayana Resort & Spa.

Overlooking the beach at Jimbaran Bay, this ultraposh compound has not one, not two, but seven venues made for weddings, including two sleek all-glass chapels, a joglo (Javanese pavilion) built for a palace 350 years ago, a garden canopied by frangipani trees, a private jetty, and a massive wedding villa with water terraces that mimic the island’s rice paddies.

And you can order up some pretty extraordinary details. Before the wedding, how about a flat-tummy treatment in the spa? Or the opportunity to create a signature fragrance to mark the occasion? Perhaps you’d like to arrive at the ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage? Want to wear the local wedding finery? Follow four traditionally costumed flower girls down the aisle? Be serenaded by a Sumatranese quartet? Celebrate with a nine-layer raspberry mousse cake? Have an after-party at the Rock Bar, one of the world’s most celebrated party places, while lights illuminate the old fishing boats bobbing in the Indian Ocean below?

Yeah, we thought so.

In Bali, Ayana Resort's wedding gazebo, with a carpet of flowers

In Bali, Ayana Resort‘s 350-year-old Javanese joglo, with a carpet of flowers


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