White Elephant Nantucket Harbor Weekend — Nantucket, MA

Three nights at the White Elephant — the harbor-fronted icon at the foot of Easton Street, blue-and-white striped umbrellas, the bride's group on a bank of teak loungers facing the harbor and the bobbing Hinckleys. Saturday morning is a Hy-Line ferry hop out to the wild end of Madaket Beach (the bride's group in cashmere sweaters and old jeans), lunch back at Brant Point Grill on the harbor lawn. Afternoon at Murray's Toggery for the Nantucket-red khakis the bride has wanted since college. Saturday-night dinner at The Languedoc Bistro on India Street — a 1970s clapboard institution where the bartender knows every regular by name. Sunday: a long bike ride along the Sconset Bluff Walk to the lighthouse, a final lobster roll at Sayle's Seafood. Decompression on the inn's wraparound porch before the slow ferry back to Hyannis.