Tag: Palmetto Bluff

For Leah Bailey, the beauty of Lowcountry style begins with architecture and building materials. “To me, a typical Lowcountry home has a big front...

Shaun Doty took a break from opening new restaurants, focusing on Bantam & Biddy, private chef work, and consulting. Then, in late 2024, he got a call: The new owners of Barnsley Resort (just over an hour’s drive northwest of Atlanta, outside Rome) wanted to hire him as the property’s culinary adviser. “The resort has always been very successful at weddings and corporate retreats, but they wanted to rebrand it for leisure travel,” Doty says. “It needed to have the edginess of a restaurateur that competes in the Atlanta market.”

In September 2019, Justin and Hailey Bieber were married in a lavish ceremony at the Somerset Chapel at Montage Palmetto Bluff. If their recent social media posts are any indication, that union is up and down—but the site where they said their vows is solid. An easy, four-hour drive from Atlanta (and 35 minutes from the Savannah airport), the Forbes Five Star property in the South Carolina Lowcountry oozes Southern charm. Here are five reasons why Southerners should visit—and, perhaps, the Biebers should consider a marriage-reparation trip.

After a year of cancelled plans, missed holidays, and Zoom toasts, it’s time to dream big again (well, almost). If congratulations are in order, these Southern destinations offer the perfect setting to celebrate (or do over!) life’s milestones and special occasions.

Life moves as slowly as a Southern drawl at the Inn at Palmetto Bluff, a plantation-style luxury resort in the South Carolina Lowcountry. I’m torn between not wanting the days to end and wishing night would fall so I’d be that much closer to witnessing another glorious sunrise on the marsh.