Block Island Spring House Weekend — Block Island, RI

A 1852 mansard-roof Victorian on the bluff at Spring Street — the Spring House Hotel, where Mark Twain summered and Ulysses S. Grant once kept a suite. The bride's group has a wraparound block of rooms with ocean views. Saturday morning is a moped-and-bike loop around the 11-mile island — the Mohegan Bluffs (200-foot clay cliffs that drop into the Atlantic), the Southeast Light, lunch at the Oar in New Harbor with a Painkiller and the bride's group's burgees on the wall. Afternoon at Crescent Beach. Saturday-night dinner on the Spring House porch with a Maine-influenced tasting menu. Sunday: a sunrise walk to the North Light and the seal-haul-out spot at Sandy Point, a long brunch back at the inn. Decompression on the high-speed ferry deck back to Galilee under a clearing afternoon sky.