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.