This resort boasts a unique postmodern design, multimillion-dollar decor, and a thrillingly beautiful beach. The result: something like a Saharan Casbah whose domed villas 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 the most privacy on its 72 hectares (179 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. 

There are enough diversions at this very posh, British-style resort to keep a honeymoon 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.

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 (150 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 tranquility. Its king-size beds are the best on the island. Don't come here for a lot of activities.

Romantics appreciate the isolation of this resort, on a 720-hectare (1,800-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.

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 (65-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. 

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 instead). Start off your married life at this romantic old place, where Princess Margaret and Noel 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.  

There are a handful of members of this resort chain in Jamaica alone (plus two others on St. Lucia, another luxe one at Cable Beach outside Nassau, 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. 

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.

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.  

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, sea-view balconies, romantic four-poster beds, and a discreet, helpful staff that doesn't interfere with honeymooners who want to be alone.

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.

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. 

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.
 

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.

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. 

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.

Posh and discreet, this resort boasts some of the most extensive vacation facilities on St. Croix -- 3 beaches, 8 tennis courts, a spa and fitness center, an 18-hole golf course, and 3km (2 miles) of carefully maintained jogging trails. The accommodations include beachside rooms with fieldstone terraces leading toward the sea. The resort's stone sugar mill (originally built in 1658) is one of the most popular sites for weddings and visiting honeymooners on the island.

So you don't want a big, expensive resort? Try this romantic little B&B hideaway. As you pass through iron gates into a well-manicured garden, you'll know you've arrived at a special place. That vision is reinforced when you're shown a four-poster bed and a sunken shower. It's a quiet retreat of charm and grace -- and the price is right, too.