Our Favorite East Coast Resort Venues
Jekyll Island Resort
Jekyll Island Club Resort, located in Georgia, is the perfect location to get married whether you’re wanting a lush garden or grand ballroom. Since the turn of the century, The Jekyll Island Club Resort has been heralded as one of America’s most desirable, exclusive getaways to meet and retreat. There are spacious accommodations onsite offering suites with oceanfront decks, beach chairs and umbrellas, a private beachside pool, hot tub, and fire pit. Your guests won’t want to leave!
Some notable highlights of Jekyll Island’s history are that the site served as the first brewery in the state of Georgia in 1747. In 1879, Newton Finney, and brother-in-law, John Eugene DuBignon collaborated to turn Jekyll Island into a private hunting club for the nation’s wealthiest individuals, quickly becoming their winter hideaway. In 1886, the Island was purchased by the newly formed Jekyll Island Club which Munsey’s Magazine called, “the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world.” The Club officially opened its doors in January 1888, quickly becoming a retreat for families that represented one-sixth of the world’s wealth. In 1910, under the cover of night, and using only first names to keep their identities secret, Senator Nelson Aldrich led a party of financial leaders to Jekyll Island to conceptualize a federal banking system. Coined the First-Name Club, together the group drafted the modern-day Federal Reserve. In 1915, the nation’s first transcontinental phone call took place between President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, DC, Alexander Graham Bell in New York, Thomas Watson in San Francisco, Henry Higginson in Boston, and AT&T President Theodore Newton Vail at Jekyll Island Club. Even golf as we know it was shaped here. In 1924, the USGA selected Jekyll Island as a testing ground for golf, replacing hickory shafts with new steel clubs, and testing ball performance. Together these strokes of genius resulted in the use of a lighter ball and steel shafts, forever changing the game. World War 2 and additional global events took a toll on the Island, and in 1985 after years of neglect and abandonment, two friends, one a lawyer, the other an architect, climbed through an unlocked window and fell in love with the deteriorating Clubhouse. Together, they planned to preserve and renovate The Club to its original splendor and re-open it as a hotel.
Montage Palmetto Bluff
Montage Palmetto Bluff sets the stage for a truly unforgettable wedding with Southern charm on the coast of South Carolina. This luxury resort hotel takes inspiration in every inch from the South’s rich cultural history, especially the Lowcountry. Your guests can enjoy an afternoon in the spa or fill their free time with activities like horseback riding, kayaking, and more!
At this resort, you could even get married at sea on a yacht or under thousand-year-old oaks! There is a minimum of 115 guests, but this resort can accommodate up to 500.
Situated along the coast of South Carolina between Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, Palmetto Bluff is a 20,000-acre development encompassing an extensive nature preserve; walking trails; a vibrant Village center complete with river access, an array of land activities, and a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course.
Sea Island Resort
This Georgia resort with 5 miles of private coastline offers 18 locations onsite to wed (including a yacht!). From ballrooms to an oceanfront location to wooded backdrops, this resort has so many beautiful places to choose from. Sea Islands’ largest space accommodates up to 350 guests and your guests of all ages will love the onsite accommodations, golf course, and myriad of activities.
With the opening of The Cloister in 1928, Bill Jones and automobile magnate Howard Coffin created “a friendly little hotel” on the southern coast of Georgia. For more than 90 years, the foundation of genuine warmth and hospitality has remained constant. Between the marshland and the sea exists a private island where the world is almost perfect. That place is Sea Island.
Stonewall Resort
Stonewall Resort is a lakeside lodge that offers rustic-modern weddings amidst the rolling West Virginia mountains and lush green fields. With a golf course, onsite spa, and many local attractions, your guests will feel treated to a proper vacation.
Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park was completed in 1990. The park and associated lake were a project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who purchased the property to construct a flood control dam. A portion of the lake covered the former site of Roanoke, WV, which was completely flooded in over 60 feet of water. The finished dam was put in service in 1988.
Castle Hill Resort and Spa
The timeless, romantic Castle Hill Resort and Spa is one of the most unique and memorable wedding venues in Vermont. This gorgeous mansion with a New England country backdrop feels intimate and cozy but can accommodate up to 250 guests.
There are multiple onsite settings including outdoor gardens, a library, a tented reception space, and two formal dining rooms. Your guests will love staying onsite and you can even treat them to a spa day!
This fantastic historic destination has been a cherished local landmark for more than a century, celebrated by locals and visitors alike. During his time as a Vermont state senator, Allen Miller Fletcher decided to build for himself and his family a new residence. English Cotswold-style architecture was used for inspiration, using the most advanced technology of the time to aid in its construction. The home was soon the first in Vermont to be fully wired for electricity and equipped with an elevator. Nickel-plated faucets were installed on each floor, in order to accommodate a hose in the event of a fire. The primary construction material to build the structure was gneiss stone (which was quarried on-site), as well as California redwood. When construction on both the building and its attending gardens finally ended, it stood as one of the finest destinations in all of Cavendish. Fletcher would spend the rest of his life at his magnificent mansion, going on to work as the Governor of Vermont. Today, Fletcher’s beautiful mansion now lives as a magnificent holiday retreat and attracts hundreds of visitors each year.