Wicklow Hall Has Spanish Moss, Powder Blue Rooms, and Your Wedding Weekend Covered

Wicklow Hall begins with the trees: centuries-old live oaks spread across eleven acres on the Santee River, their branches heavy with Spanish moss and throwing long shadows over the lawn. Beyond them sits a grand Lowcountry house with original fireplaces, powder-blue rooms, a piano in the dining room, and windows looking into the garden. The Southern Gothic beauty outside gives way to something warmer once you step indoors, which is where Wicklow Hall starts to feel especially good for a wedding. Marry beneath the oaks, then move back through the house for drinks, dinner, and a night with your closest people sleeping upstairs. With room for 29 overnight guests, the estate lets your wedding feel expansive without losing the intimacy of having everyone home together.

 

Written by Morgan Nicole Johnson
Photography by Hailey Nicole, David Rinella, Catherine Claire Creative, and Courtesy of Wicklow Hall

 

Something Old, With a Grand Staircase and Nearly Two Centuries of Stories
 

The estate dates to the 1830s, and its latest life began in 2025, when Judith and David Rinella restored the historic property as an eight-room boutique inn. The couple found the former private estate, once used as a duck-hunting lodge, while searching for a hospitality project and fell for its position within some 60,000 protected acres of the Santee River Delta. The house joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, so the renovation preserved details worth keeping, including heart-pine floors, rare Egyptian Revival doorframes, and the original grand staircase railing. Marble bathrooms and modern kitchenettes joined the mix, while three cottages around the main inn expanded the guest quarters. Nearly two centuries after the first walls went up, Wicklow Hall has entered its wedding era.

 

 

A Wedding Weekend With the Run of Wicklow Hall
 

I like a wedding venue that gives you more than one good answer to the question, “Where should we do this?” At Wicklow Hall, vows might happen on the grand lawn, in the courtyard and gardens, or near the Main Inn, each with its own view and sense of occasion. Dinner works beautifully on a smaller scale, with seating for 35, while standing receptions welcome up to 115 guests. Couples choose their own caterer, music is welcome indoors and outside, and a full-property rental puts the house, grounds, and guest rooms in your hands for the weekend. Friday’s rehearsal dinner, Saturday’s ceremony and reception, and Sunday breakfast all have a home here, which is exactly why Wicklow Hall feels so good for a wedding.

 

 

The Guest Room Gets a Place Card, Too
 

Wicklow Hall sleeps up to 29 guests across the main house, suites, and cottages, so the people closest to you get more than a nearby hotel room. Suite Six sleeps four, The Cottage sleeps seven, and The Lodge sleeps eight, with smaller king rooms filling out the rest of the house. For a thoughtful host, the best part starts before check-in: Wicklow Hall will place chilled champagne with crystal flutes, seasonal flowers, or a handwritten note in the room before your guest arrives. Picture your maid of honor opening the door to flowers and a note from you, or your parents finding champagne waiting after the rehearsal dinner. It's the little things that become the details you remember.

 

 

A Little Saltwater Before the Champagne
 

Dear guests, please dry off fully from surf lessons before the rehearsal dinner. Wicklow Hall sits between Georgetown and Charleston, with the Hammock Coast close enough to turn the hours around a wedding into part of the fun. Spend the morning kayaking through salt marshes, book a fishing trip, take a private trolley through historic Georgetown, or head onto Winyah Bay for a sunset sail. The Wicklow team will arrange excursions, while Georgetown, 15 minutes away, supplies an easy afternoon of shops, bakeries, and waterfront restaurants. All of this makes Wicklow Hall especially appealing for micro weddings and group trips, where everyone has more time together and the trip itself matters as much as the party.

 

 

Your Something Blue Has Rooms for the Weekend
 

Wicklow Hall has all the ingredients of a wedding people will talk about on the flight home: an old Southern house, moss-draped oaks, riverfront grounds, rooms for your favorite people, and enough nearby adventure to give the weekend a life beyond the reception. There is space for a 115-person celebration, yet some of the sweetest parts happen on a smaller scale, with 35 around the dinner table, flowers waiting in a guest room, or everyone meeting for breakfast the next morning. For a micro wedding, the house and surrounding coast give you plenty to fill the days around the ceremony. For a group trip, skip the vows and keep the sunset sail, surf lesson, long dinner, and upstairs bedrooms. Either way, Wicklow Hall gives you a beautiful excuse to gather everyone you love in one place for a few days. Start planning your stay or wedding weekend with Wicklow Hall.