Greer Garrison Winbury and Tag Winbury cordially invite you to the wedding of their beloved son, Benji Winbury, to Amelia Sacks.

Join them in celebrating the beautiful wedding of this perfect couple on Thursday, September 5 at Summerland, the Winbury family’s historic estate on the Nantucket coast.

We look forward to seeing you soon at what will be an unforgettable wedding. #WeddingOfTheYear #WinburyWedding

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The wedding weekend

Celebrate the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. Winbury at the Winbury family’s beachfront property, Summerland, where we gathered last year for the couple’s poolside engagement soirée. As you all know, the property has been in Tag’s family for five generations.

The rehearsal dinner

Join the Winburys and their closest friends at Summerland Beach on Friday night for summer cocktails under white tents decorated with beach roses and Lucite chandeliers. Guests will feast on Pemaquid oysters from Maine’s Damariscotta River and platters of lobster steamed in kelp. It is a clambake, after all.
Dress code: Cocktail

The wedding

The wedding will be Saturday at 4 p.m. in Summerland. The cake will be a dream cake with five layers of buttercream and for dessert there will be oysters from Emil’s in Polpis Harbor.
Dress code: Black tie

The brunch after the wedding

On Sunday, the newlyweds will be welcomed in style with an extensive brunch on their honeymoon to Fiji.
Dress code: Semi-formal

The wedding party

Greer Garrison Winbury
The mother of the groom

Tag Winbury
The father of the groom

Benji Winbury
The Bridegroom

Amelia Bags
The Bride

Abby Stokes-Winbury
The sister-in-law

Thomas Winbury
The groom’s brother

Will Winbury
The groom’s brother

Merritt Monaco
The bride’s best friend

Shooter Dival
The groom’s best friend

Accommodations

Within the gates of Summerland are a number of select cottages for loyal friends and family.

For our other guests of honor, we recommend reserving a room at the Wauwinet Hotel in advance, as accommodations here on Nantucket fill up quickly.

*Please note: Would not I recommend staying at the Sand Dollar Motel.

Things to do

Nantucket is a dollhouse town of cobblestone streets and cedar-shingled, white-trimmed mansions along the shore. There’s plenty to do in this coastal utopia.

Explore Sconset Beach, visit Brant Point Lighthouse, stroll through Bartlett’s farm stand (on the Winbury family tab!) or purchase Tag to take you out on the water in one of our custom boats. This town is your oyster.

Frequently Asked Questions

Picture this: Nantucket. Summer. Beautiful weather. Our heroine is madly in love and about to marry her ideal man, handsome and from an extremely wealthy family (in fact, the wealthiest family on the island). But when she wakes up on the morning of her wedding, a body is found in the harbor. Instead of attending the wedding of the year, the guests are now all suspects. True crime and romance lovers alike can rejoice in this new limited series, The perfect couple.

The six-episode series, based on Elin Hilderbrand’s New York Times bestseller, now streaming.

Read everything you need to know about the soap series below.

What is The perfect couple about?

The perfect couple follows Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a bride who marries into one of Nantucket’s wealthiest families. Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman), the groom’s mother and a famous novelist, spares no expense for the high society wedding. But when a dead body turns up on the beach, everyone’s champagne dreams quickly fade, replaced by suspicion. As secrets come to the surface, an investigation unfolds that seems to have been plucked from one of Greer’s books. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect.

Watch The perfect couple Trailer

Can I watch? The perfect couple trailer?

Why, of course. Dive into the lavish trailer above and don’t worry — contrary to Greer’s guest policy, we won’t make you sign an NDA before you watch. But be warned, the Winburys? “They’re rich. Kill-someone-and-get-away-with-it rich.”

Is The perfect couple based on a book?

Yes! The perfect couple is based on Elin Hilderbrand’s New York Times bestseller of the same name. Throw it in your bag and make it your next beach read.

The limited series is the first film adaptation of one of Hilderbrand’s novels. “I’ve been waiting 24 years for this!” the author tells Tudum. “My first novel came out in the summer of 2000. It was bought by Aaron Spelling, OK — that tells you how long ago that was. I’ve seen a lot of projects get turned upside down and put on ice. And now something is finally coming to the screen. I’m so excited!”

Can I see some pictures of The perfect couple?

Yes, just flip through the first photos of this elegant ensemble above.

Who’s in The perfect couple form?

• Childman (A family affair, The Ricardos are) plays Greer Garrison Winbury, the glamorous mother of the groom.
• Dear Schreiber (Ray Donovan, Asteroid city) plays Tag Winbury, the handsome father of the groom.
• Dakota Fanning (Once upon a time in Hollywood, The equalizer 3) takes on the role of Abby Winbury, the groom’s sister-in-law.
• Hewson (Flora and son, Bad sisters) is Amelia Sacks, the bride.
• Billy Howle (Under the banner of heaven, The snake) is Benji Winbury, the groom.
• Meghan Fahy (The White Lotus, The fat type) takes on the role of Merritt Monaco, the bride’s best friend.
• Ishaan Khatter (Beyond the clouds, A suitable Boy) plays Shooter Dival, the groom’s best friend.
• Jack Reynor (Midsummer, The periphery) plays Thomas Winbury, the groom’s brother.
• Mia Isaak (Not okay, Black cake) is Chloe Carter, the daughter of the police chief.
• Sam Nivola (Master, White noise) is Will Winbury, the groom’s brother.
• Michael Strand (Mayor of Kingstown, DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) plays Dan Carter, the police chief.
• Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy ex girlfriend, The First Lady) takes on the role of Nikki Henry, the detective.
• Isabelle Adjani will return as Isabel Nallet, the family friend.

Behind the secrets of The perfect couple

Who is the creative team behind The perfect couple?

Emmy and Oscar winner Susanne Bier directs all six episodes and serves as executive producer, along with showrunner Jenna Lamia (Good girls, No Tomorrow, UncomfortableOther executive producers on the limited series include Shawn Levy for 21 Laps Entertainment (Stranger Things, Shadow and boneAnd Unsolved mysteries), Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady for The Jackal Group, Kidman and Per Saari for Blossom Films, and Josh Barry.

Was The perfect couple filmed on Nantucket?

For author Elin Hilderbrand, the most important thing about adapting her novel into a film was that “Nantucket was done right,” she said. “Jenna was calling and texting me all the time with little questions about how Nantucket was named. I feel confident that everyone on Nantucket, and all my readers, will get a real sense of the authenticity of Nantucket that comes through in my books.”

While Hilderbrand visited the set of the series, she waited to watch The perfect couple with the rest of the world. “I’m really curious to see what Nantucket looks like,” she tells Tudum. “I wanted to convey the essence of Nantucket, which is a kind of understated ease and rightfulness of place. And I know that’s what happens, because I’ve read the scripts.”

Lamia, a New Englander herself, was a huge fan of Hilderbrand’s books before she even worked on the series. Her dedication to capturing the textures, colors, and smells of a New England summer on Nantucket forged a bond with Hilderbrand during their first meeting. “Capturing Nantucket would have been important for any show set there, but for an Elin Hilderbrand adaptation, it’s a character,” she says. “It’s a main character. So we had to do it justice.”

The goal was to make the show look like “absolutely delicious candy,” says Lamia, glowing in raspberry and salmon pink. “It’s opulence that looks like it’s not trying.” Funnily enough, much of the series was filmed on Cape Cod in Chatham, Massachusetts, including Winbury’s Summerland estate. “That was our home base, and we enhanced it with blue hydrangeas,” says Lamia, who adds that they filmed much of the series during the month of April.

Jenna Lamia and Elin Hilderbrand outside “Summerland.” “It was April and cold!” says Lamia.

Thanks to Jenna Lamia

But many things the production didn’t even have to touch. “There was one of the most beautiful sunsets we’d ever seen one night, and we just had a camera rolling through the entire sunset, and it ended up in the show,” she says. Because they were filming close to Nantucket, “it didn’t take much to transform it.”

Bier credits Hilderbrand with physically assisting the series’ production by acquiring locations and contacts on Cape Cod. “The whole world is about getting the texture right,” she says. “It’s about the locations. It’s about the kind of shoes. It’s about all the clothes. It’s about the food they’re having for dinner. It’s all those things, which together create a sense of world.”

Of course, filming also took place on Nantucket itself — the “bits we couldn’t do anywhere else,” Bier says. Those bits include the scenes where they walk past the bookstore where Greer’s latest Dash and Dolly The novel is centered around the bar where Greer meets Police Chief Dan Carter.

Watch The perfect couple Preview

Can I watch? The perfect couple preview?

Yes! Grab a glass of champagne and enjoy. Some will say it’s “too good to be true.”

What is The perfect couple release date?

The wedding of The perfect couple are now available to stream, only on Netflix.