Overplanned trips feel like work. The formula that works: one shared activity per day, generous white space around it.

Most couples planning a DC-area wedding start with a spreadsheet. What fewer ask — at least at the beginning — is what kind of experience they actually want. When you start there, Luray, Virginia shows up on the list. And for couples who discover it, it tends to stay there.

Your twenty closest people. One weekend in the Shenandoah Valley. A ceremony, a long dinner, a slow morning after. The micro wedding retreat is a different kind of beginning — and The Undergrowth was built for exactly this.