Some couples are forgoing traditional catering for food cooked over an open fire. One benefit: instant conversation starter.

THE SETUP You’re going to play “ghost doubles,” or “jumbie doubles,” as we say in the Caribbean. Two people play at a time, server and receiver. All balls are hit crosscourt, the doubles alleys are ...

Once described by His Majesty as an “appalling risk” of an investment, the 18th-century manor known as Dumfries House will ...