Taking its cues from the nearby vineyards and olive groves, this renowned hotel cultivates a Mediterranean look. It's luxury as simplicity: earthtone tile floors, heavy wood furniture, and terracotta colors. Unwind with (or without) your guests at the full-service spa, and meet up later for dinner prepared by a renowned culinary team. The best place to say "I do"? On the terrace, overlooking the Napa Valley.
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Fodor's Choice Gold Awards 2010
Best Destination Wedding Hotels
U.S. hotels offering the best services and amenities for wedding planning and celebrations.
In alphabetical order Photo: The New York Palace
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Auberge du Soleil Rutherford, CA
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Casa Monica Hotel St. Augustine, FL
The wedding team at this grande dame hotel—a veritable Spanish-Moorish castle built in 1888—is adept at planning artful ceremonies and receptions. Think turrets, towers, and wrought-iron balconies outside, and columns and arches, hand-crafted chandeliers, and gilded iron tables within. Just imagine the photo possibilities. With St. Augustine's attractions a walk away and access to a beach club, there's plenty for you and your guests to do before and after the big day.
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Grand Floridian Resort & Spa Orlando, FL
Holding a wedding at Walt Disney World's flagship resort is like living the happy ending of a fairy tale. The whole place is a Victorian-style confection, rooms are elegantly appointed, the on-site Victoria & Albert's restaurant is one of central Florida's best, and the wedding pavilion has views of Cinderella Castle. Online planning tools make customizing your dream event as easy as waving a wand. Then, as if by magic, Disney's wedding planners (fairy godmothers?) do the rest.
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Monteleone Hotel New Orleans, LA
The grande dame of French Quarter hotels is all about history, Southern hospitality, and refined luxury, with its baroque facade, liveried doormen, and shimmering chandeliers. Catch up with your guests in the lobby's landmark Carousel Bar, where stools slowly circle around the room. Celebrate your big day in the Queen Anne Ballroom or the rooftop Riverview Room.
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New York Palace Hotel New York, NY
If ever there was a dream-come-true wedding destination, this is it. The lobby, with its sweeping staircases, golden chandeliers, and arched colonnades, and the gorgeous courtyard, with its 15th-century Italian-style motifs, is what Manhattan sophistication is all about. The ballroom is a luxurious locale for a fête; for a small affair, triplex suites have private rooftops and views of Rockefeller Center.
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San Juan Water & Beach Club San Juan, Puerto Rico
At this boutique resort you get tropical paradise without tactical nuisance. Multiple nonstop flights from the United States make travel easy for your guests, and worry-free packages make planning easy for you. Throw in sweeping ocean views from every room and the cosmopolitan city of San Juan as your playground, and you've got the perfect setting for a Caribbean destination wedding.
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Sheraton Kauai Resort Kauai, HI
The Sheraton Kauai Resort makes sure couples get hitched without a hitch at one of three outdoor venues, each featuring spectacular beach and ocean views. Try for rooms in the ocean wing, where you can practically feel the spray of the surf as it hits the rocks below. Three wedding packages and budget-planning tools make the preparations easy, and the flexibility to customize these packages allows you to make your special day especially yours.
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The Broadmoor Colorado Springs, CO
Old World elegance meets contemporary luxury at this glorious Mediterranean-style resort. The scenery is stunning, with sprawling grounds that wind around a lake beneath Cheyenne mountain. Plentiful amenities and activities include a world-class spa, paddle boats, championship golf, and a full kids' program. There's an array of gorgeous ballrooms to choose from, and the Broadmoor wedding planners are matrimonial artists who leave nothing to chance.
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The Homestead Hot Springs, VA
The 15,000-acre, historic Homestead is the perfect place to make your own history. Wedding planners here can organize anything: your menu, spa or salon appointments, romantic carriage rides, fireworks shows. Luxurious accommodations, Southern hospitality, a dramatic mountain backdrop, and endless activities will keep everyone on your guest list happy. Plus the 400 guest rooms mean you won't have to turn away your mother's best friend's cousin.
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Wentworth by the Sea Portsmouth, NH
The restored Wentworth by the Sea is a standout wedding venue not simply because of its idyllic coastal location, elegant facilities, comprehensive event-planning support, spa and golf packages, optional horse-drawn carriage, and white-glove service. No, what sets it apart are the ways refinement and nature are brought together. Sip champagne in the gardens, or take in the sunset from the Garden Ballroom's private veranda.
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