The inflatable port-a-church. (Catholic tastes).

For $1,500 a day, British entrepreneur Michael Gill is renting out the world's first and only inflatable church. His air-filled building was manufactured by a moonwalk and bounce-castle maker and is 47 feet long, 25 feet wide, and 47 feet tall.

"The attention to detail is heavenly," gushes Gill's Web site (www.inflatablechurch.com), "complete with plastic `stained glass' windows and airbrush artwork which replicates the traditional church. Inside, it has an inflatable organ, altar, pulpit, pews, candles, and a gold cross. Even the doors are flanked by air-filled angels."

Designed to take full advantage of a proposed change in British marriage laws (which would no longer require the licensing of a place but only of the officiating person at a wedding), the giant blow-up church is ready to travel all over.

"Now we can bring the church to the bride rather than the other way around," says Gill. "It can be set up anywhere, from your garden to Malibu Beach. No problem with high heels--our church has a hard floor. But, please, no smoking!"

Even if the marriage law is changed, though, the plastic "church" will still only be acceptable for civil ceremonies, a Church of England spokesman explained to the British newspaper The Sun. He added, "A church is its people, and you can't have inflatable people."