As the 5 P.M. wedding hour approached on a diamond-bright day, limousines whisked guests past the "no cameras" sign at the gates of Mr. Jackson's Neverland Valley ranch, in the Santa Ynez Valley 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

Mantanani - Mantanani is quickly becoming a popular island getaway due to its close proximity from Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah - a speed boat whisks guests to the island in 45 minutes.

Palm Island, open since Jan. 18, has a cluster of 40 units in 22 cottages, two open-air restaurants, a 90-foot long free-form pool, and a private launch to whisk guests back and forth from the small airport on Union Island, a 10-minute boat ride through turquoise water.

A glass elevator will whisk guests to the serene white-and-beige second-floor lobby (inset).

The Hyatt's 22-story skylit courtyard, with bedrooms opening onto cantilevered balconies hung with vines and transparent "bubble" elevators whisking awed guests to their floors, was copied all across the United States soon after it opened in 1967.

That evening, a shuttle bus was whisking guests from the hotel into town, but by the time she arrived, there were no seats available.

Afterwards the partying began again as buses and limousines whisked guests to the club M.K.

Tight security by Italian and British police delayed the party and bottled up a fleet of motorboats whisking guests to the Palazzo Pisani Moretta, where the dinner and ball was held.

Athletic-looking attendants in white pants, sneakers and coral-colored golf shirts (very Connecticut) appeared on the hour and half-hour to whisk guests off to treatments, which happened behind closed doors.

It takes its commitment to eco-tourism so seriously that it has developed the prototype of an electric Land Rover, an emission-free vehicle that can whisk guests silently through the wilderness.