Castle Hill Inn Cliff Walk Weekend — Newport, RI

A 1875 shingled Relais & Châteaux mansion on Ocean Drive with its own private cove — the bride's room has French doors onto a slate terrace, the harbor and the Pell Bridge in the distance. Saturday: an early walk on the 3.5-mile Cliff Walk past the Vanderbilts' Breakers and the Astor Beechwood, lunch at the Castle Hill Lawn Tent (lobster rolls, frosé, the bride lounging in a striped Adirondack chair), an afternoon sail aboard the schooner Aquidneck out of Bowen's Wharf. Saturday-night dinner is in Castle Hill Inn's main dining room with a black truffle menu and a Newport White Burgundy from their cellar. Sunday: a slow brunch at the Lawn Tent, a Trinity Church service if the bride wants the full WASP experience, and a walk through the Cliff Walk's southern half. Decompression at the inn's grass tennis lawn with iced tea before the drive to Boston.