How to marry like a celebrity in the Turks & Caicos

Donna Karan’s beach house on Parrot Cay, one chic Caribbean wedding headquarters

It’s so easy to get to the Turks & Caicos islands (a quick two-and-a-half-hour flight from New York) and the wide beaches and aqua waters are so travel-poster gorgeous, that weddings here have become very  big business. In fact, a dozen companies offer planning services, and sunset on the main island of Provodenciales often brings a parade of brides and grooms headed down to the water for a portrait session.

So what’s a couple to do when you want those turquoise waters and cotton-white sands, but you also want a wedding unlike any other? You rent Donna Karan’s place. Her 11-room villa on Parrot Cay by COMO, a private-island resort with a luxurious lodge and a handful of extraordinary vacation homes, is available for a cool $30,000 a night. That buys you the designer’s  main house and two guest houses that shelter a total of 11 bedrooms, a formal indoor dining area that seats 20, a screened guest pavilion, infinity pool, and full kitchen—plus the services of two private chefs. Available through Villas of Distinction, its Zen-like interiors, eclectic art, and global furnishings are as elegant and comfortable as Karan’s fashions themselves.