Google Wedding in the British Virgin Islands!

[Bajanne]

I just heard that one of the owners of Google is having a fantasy wedding in the British Virgin Islands.  The wedding will be on Necker Island.
"Necker Island is a small island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda, located at 18°31′36″N, 64°21′26″W. It is owned by Sir Richard Branson, famous for his Virgin brand. The island is rented out as a luxury resort for US$46,000 per night" Wikipedia.
They have also rented out complete hotels on Virgin Gorda for the guests.  A big catamaran like what is used here to ferry commuters between the islands was bought and painted white (to be repainted after).
Everything was flown in - numerous containers of stuff.
The guest list is one of the most impressive.  I am sure I heard names like Bush, etc....
I lost my invitation  so I won't be going. boohooboohoo!

[tamara]

Yes, I think I will have my wedding there also 

[Sluff]

Must be nice to be able to afford such luxury. Very nice.

[goofynina]

If and/or when i ever get to the Virgin Islands, it wont be to get married, i just want to give Bajanne a great biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig ol' Goofynina hug    (and drink some of that jamaican rum)   

[okarol]

From Times Online
December 6, 2007

Clintons to attend Google wedding
A string of high-profile guests are descending on a private island in the Caribbean for the wedding of Larry Page, Google's billionaire co-founder

Bill and Hillary Clinton are among the guests expected to descend on a tiny Caribbean island this weekend for the wedding of Larry Page, the billionaire co-founder of Google.

Mr Page and his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, are to marry in a private ceremony on Necker Island, a small 74-acre enclave owned by Richard Branson, with about 600 guests, Times Online can confirm.

Mr Branson, another member of the billionaires' club and a good friend of Mr Page's, will be best man.

Details of the event have been kept intensely private, but it is understood that celebrities including Bono, U2's frontman, as well as high-profile politicians, will be flown on private jets from around the world to attend.

Mr Page's party has booked out the entire island, which has space for 28 guests and usually costs $48,000 - or $1,679 per person - per night to hire - for the event, which was first reported on on the Silicon Valley gossip website valleywag.com last month.

Other guests will be ferried in from nearby Gorda Island, a 10-minute boat ride away, where hotels have also completely booked up months in advance.

According to its website, Necker Island, located in the British Virgin Islands, is a "stunning and unspoilt area of the Caribbean" which is surrounded by turqouise waters, coral reefs and pristine sandy beaches.

Guests can only arrive by helicopter or boat, and can choose from a number of secluded Balinese-style beach houses, which are adorned by luxurious pools and Jaccuzzis, and sport their own private chefs. Mr Branson, the Virgin entrepreneur, has owned the island since the 1970s.

A spokesman for a helicopter company on Gorda Island told Times Online today: "It's definitely a Google wedding. I understand that Bill and Hillary (Clinton) are flying in tomorrow.

But the company is keeping it very quiet."

Another helicopter firm that Times Online understands will be taking guests to the event from St Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands, and a 40-minute flight away, refused to comment.

Mr Page, who is 34 and worth an estimated $18.5 billion, founded the world's most popular search engine with his classmate, Sergey Brin, in 1998.

He is understood to be a good friend of Mr Branson, who used the help of Google's satellite imaging tool, Google Earth, to try and find his friend Steve Fossett, the adventurer, when the latter's plane went missing in September.

Mr Page's fiancee, who is 27, is a PhD student in 'biomedical informatics' at Stanford University, and also has a masters degree in science from Oxford University.

The pair have reportedly been together for over a year.

A spokesman for Google declined to comment.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3011672.ece

PHOTO: The Great House, Necker Islands, British Virgin islands

[Bajanne]

The husband of a friend of mine is the accountant at one of the hotels booked out on Virgin Gorda.  She said that she must go over there at some point to see her husband and say hello, of course!  'Gorda Island' sounds sooooooo strange.  The name is Virgin Gorda.
I have seen Necker Island from afar - it is to the north of Virgin Gorda.  I'd better apply for a job over there - chambermaid or something like that!