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

Please join them in celebrating the beautiful union of this perfect couple on Thursday, Sept. 5, at Summerland, the Winbury family’s historic seaside estate on Nantucket. 

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

Schedule

The Wedding Weekend

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

The Rehearsal Dinner

Join the Winburys and their closest friends on Summerland Beach on Friday evening to sip summer cocktails under white tents festooned with beach roses and Lucite chandeliers. Guests will enjoy Pemaquid oysters from Damariscotta River, Maine, and platters of lobster steamed in seaweed. It’s a clambake, after all. 
Dress code: Cocktail

The Wedding

The nuptials will take place at Summerland on Saturday at 4 p.m. The cake will be a five-tier buttercream dream, and there’ll be oysters from Emil’s down Polpis Harbor.
Dress code: Black-tie

The Post-Wedding Brunch

On Sunday, a lavish brunch will send the newlyweds off to Fiji on their honeymoon in style.
Dress code: Semiformal

The Wedding Party

Greer Garrison Winbury
The Groom’s Mother

Tag Winbury
The Groom’s Father

Benji Winbury
The Groom

Amelia Sacks
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

Places to Stay

There are a select number of cottages inside the gates of Summerland for close friends and family in the wedding party. 

For our other honored guests, we suggest booking a room in advance at The Wauwinet hotel, as accommodation books up quickly here on Nantucket.

*Note: Would not recommend staying at the Sand Dollar Motel.

Things to Do

Nantucket is a dollhouse town with cobblestone streets and cedar-shingled, white-trimmed mansions lining the shore. You’ll find plenty to do in this coastal utopia.

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

FAQ

Picture this: Nantucket. Summertime. Beautiful weather. Our heroine is deeply in love and about to marry her ideal man, handsome and from an extremely well-to-do family (in fact, the wealthiest family on the island). But when she wakes up on the morning of her wedding, a body is found floating 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 bestselling novel, is streaming now. 

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

What is The Perfect Couple about?

The Perfect Couple follows Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a bride marrying into one of Nantucket’s wealthiest families. Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman), the groom’s mother and a famous novelist, spares no expense on the high-society wedding. But when a dead body appears on the beach, everyone’s Champagne dreams quickly vanish and are replaced by suspicion. As secrets bubble up to the surface, an investigation takes hold that feels 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 sumptuous trailer above and don’t worry — unlike 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 bestselling novel of the same name. Toss it into your tote and make it your next beach read.

The limited series is the first screen adaptation of one of Hilderbrand’s novels. “I waited 24 years for this!” the author tells Tudum. “My first novel came out in the summer of 2000. It was optioned by Aaron Spelling, OK — that just tells you how long ago that happened. I’ve had a lot of projects go upside down and rest on ice. And now something is finally going to the screen. I am so excited!”

Back in July, when the teaser trailer debuted, the book publisher saw nearly a 500 percent increase in book sales, and then when the trailer was released, the book popped back onto the New York Times bestseller list. Just before the series debut, the book reappeared on the USA TODAY bestselling book list. Following the show’s launch on Sept. 5, the audiobook jumped to No. 1 in suspense and No. 5 overall in Amazon’s best sellers.

Can I see some photos from The Perfect Couple?

Yes, flip through these first-look photos of the elegant ensemble above.

Who’s in The Perfect Couple cast?

• Kidman (A Family Affair, Being the Ricardos) will play Greer Garrison Winbury, the groom’s glamorous mother.
• Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan, Asteroid City) will play Tag Winbury, the groom’s dashing father.
• 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 Serpent) is Benji Winbury, the groom.
• Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus, The Bold Type) takes on the part of Merritt Monaco, the bride’s best friend.
• Ishaan Khatter (Beyond the Clouds, A Suitable Boy) will play Shooter Dival, the groom’s best friend.
• Jack Reynor (Midsommar, The Peripheral) will play Thomas Winbury, the groom’s brother.
• Mia Isaac (Not Okay, Black Cake) is Chloe Carter, the chief of police’s daughter.
• Sam Nivola (Maestro, White Noise) is Will Winbury, the groom’s brother.
• Michael Beach (Mayor of Kingstown, DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) will play Dan Carter, the chief of police.
• Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The First Lady) takes on the role of Nikki Henry, the detective.
• Isabelle Adjani will recur as Isabel Nallet, the family friend. 

Behind the Secrets of The Perfect Couple

Who’s the creative team behind The Perfect Couple?

Emmy and Oscar winner Susanne Bier directs all six episodes and executive produces alongside showrunner Jenna Lamia (Good Girls, No Tomorrow, Awkward). The limited series’ other executive producers include Shawn Levy for 21 Laps Entertainment (Stranger Things, Shadow and Bone, and 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 in the adaptation of her novel was that “Nantucket was done correctly,” she said. “Jenna would call and text me all the time with tiny questions about the way Nantucket was referred to. I feel confident that anybody on Nantucket, and any of my readers, will get a real sense of the authenticity of Nantucket that comes out in my books.”

While Hilderbrand went to visit the set of the series, she’s waited to watch The Perfect Couple with the rest of the world. “I’m really excited to see how Nantucket looks,” she tells Tudum. “I wanted the essence of Nantucket, which is sort of understated ease and entitlement of the place, to come across. And I’m sure it does because I’ve read the scripts.”

Lamia hails from New England herself and was a huge fan of Hilderbrand’s books before even working on the series. Her commitment to nailing the texture, colors, and smells of a New England summer on Nantucket forged her connection with Hilderbrand in their first meeting. “Capturing Nantucket would’ve been important for any show set in 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, resplendent in raspberry reds and salmon pinks. “It's wealth that looks like it isn't trying.” Funnily enough, much of the series was actually filmed on Cape Cod in Chatham, Massachusetts, including the Winbury’s Summerland estate. “That was our home base, and we did enhance it with blue hydrangeas,” says Lamia, who adds 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.

Courtesy of Jenna Lamia

But many things production didn’t even need to touch. “There was one of the most beautiful sunsets any of us had ever seen one night, and we just let a camera roll for the whole sunset, and it ended up in the show,” she says. Because they shot close to Nantucket, “it didn’t take a lot to transform it.”

Bier credits Hilderbrand with physically assisting production of the series by acquiring locations and contacts on Cape Cod. “The whole world is very much 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 eating for dinner. It's about all those things, which all together create a sense of world.”

Of course, production also filmed on Nantucket itself — the “bits we couldn’t do anywhere else,” says Bier. Those bits include the scenes where they pass the bookshop, where Greer’s latest Dash & Dolly novel is front and center, and the bar where Greer meets with police chief Dan Carter.

Watch The Perfect Couple Teaser

Can I watch The Perfect Couple teaser?

Yes! Grab a coupe of champagne and indulge above. Some may say it’s “just too good to be true.”

What’s The Perfect Couple release date?

The nuptials of The Perfect Couple are streaming now, only on Netflix.