There’s a moment when you’re driving along the rugged coastline of Cape Ann when something appears on the horizon that makes you question your GPS. Is that… a medieval castle perched on the ...

There’s a moment of pure disbelief when you first spot it – a medieval European castle perched dramatically on the rocky Massachusetts coastline, towers reaching skyward as Atlantic waves crash below.

I’d always wanted to be married in a castle since I was a little girl. I thought a castle wedding would be absolutely gorgeous. But castle weddings are expensive. So we settled for castle-adjacent.