Travel Picks: Top 10 places to ask: "Will you marry me?"

SINGAPORE - Asking someone to marry may be one of the most important questions of your life, and the right place can make it all the more memorable.

Boutique hotel travel specialists Mr & Mrs Smith (www.mrandmrssmith.com) have come up with a list of the top 10 hotels to propose.

1. Palazzo Barbarigo, Venice, Italy

Palazzo Barbarigo is a palace in Venice, Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of the city.

This dramatic 18-room destination hotel adds a modern shot of plush velvet, saucy feather-trim and moody mirrored wall to polished parquet floors and period details.

In the bedrooms, the theme continues with minibars in deco-style cocktail cabinets. Sigh over Grand Canal views in one of the lovely Junior Suites, which also have separate dressing and wardrobe areas.

Then whisk your lover out of the door and straight onto the gondola you've arranged at the hotel's marble-clad waterside landing.