Greyfield Inn Cumberland Island Wild-Horse Weekend — Cumberland Island, GA

Greyfield is the only inn on Cumberland Island, a 17-mile barrier island accessible only by the inn's private ferry — Carnegie family hunting lodge restored as a 16-room Relais & Châteaux property, all-inclusive. The bridesmaids spend day one with the inn's naturalist tracking the island's 150 wild feral horses on the dunes, then a private picnic at Plum Orchard. Day two is a kayak through the salt marsh, an afternoon at the Dungeness ruins, and dinner in the Greyfield dining room (jacket required) with the inn's wine pulled from the basement. Decompression: a final beach walk at sunrise on the empty 17-mile shoreline.