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The 10 best wedding venues in Long Island

Long Island's wedding map splits three ways. The North Shore Gold Coast holds the estates — Oheka Castle in Huntington, the Tudor-style Hempstead House at Sands Point Preserve, and the Vanderbilt Museum's Spanish Revival mansion above Northport Bay — while the North Fork sends couples out to working vineyards such as Bedell Cellars in Cutchogue and Kontokosta Winery on the Sound. The South Fork runs to Montauk, where Gurney's holds the only four-season oceanfront resort on the point. Closer to the city, Nassau County's ballroom belt takes the largest guest lists on the island.

Researched and last reviewed 2026-08-25. We have no commercial relationship with any venue listed.

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Oheka Castle — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. I

Oheka Castle

Historic castle hotelHuntington, North ShoreUp to 350 seated in the Terrace Room

Built on the highest ground on Long Island as Otto Kahn's Gold Coast estate and now run as a 34-room historic hotel, this is the address couples reach for when they want the scale to be the point. Three indoor reception rooms are on the books — the Grand Ballroom, the Formal Dining Room and the Terrace Room — with the Terrace Room seating 350 at tables of twelve, and the house takes only one wedding a day. Formal gardens and the long approach drive do most of the photographic work, which is partly why it keeps turning up on lists of the houses said to have inspired Gatsby's mansion.

One wedding a day, 350 in the Terrace Room

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Sands Point Preserve — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. II

Sands Point Preserve

Gold Coast estatePort Washington, North ShoreUp to 300 seated; 350 for a cocktail reception

Over two hundred acres of cliff, woodland, meadow and beach along Long Island Sound, with the 50,000-square-foot Hempstead House at the center of it — a Tudor-style mansion finished in 1912 for Howard Gould and later held by the Guggenheims. The air-conditioned ground floor is the reception: a sunken palm court, two living rooms, a mahogany-paneled library, dining room and billiards room, each with a carved stone fireplace. In warm months the Rose Garden and the terrace over the Sound take the ceremony, and the preserve is close enough to Manhattan — around 25 miles — that guests can drive out for the day.

Sunken palm court above Long Island Sound

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Chateau at Coindre Hall — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. III

Chateau at Coindre Hall

Historic chateauHuntington HarborUp to 250 seated

Modeled on a medieval French chateau and finished in 1912 for the pharmaceutical heir George McKesson Brown, this 40-room, 80,000-square-foot house at 101 Browns Road went on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Suffolk County owns it as a park; Lessing's runs the interior as an event property, one wedding at a time. The circular staircase off the entrance foyer is the picture everyone takes, the Grand Ballroom and a separate piazza give you two distinct rooms, and six fireplaces are scattered through the rest. French doors open to a terrace above Huntington Harbor, so the cocktail hour is on the water even though the reception is indoors.

1912 chateau above Huntington Harbor

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Vanderbilt Museum — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. IV

Vanderbilt Museum

Museum estateCenterport, North ShoreUp to 250; planetarium theater seats 145

The Spanish Revival house William K. Vanderbilt II built in phases between 1910 and 1936 sits on 43 acres above Northport Bay, drawn by Warren & Wetmore of Grand Central fame. Receptions go into a 6,000-square-foot tent pitched on what used to be the private golf course, with the historic courtyard handling cocktails or a smaller seated dinner. The Rose Garden — reflecting pool fountain, historical columns, iron gates by Samuel Yellin — is the usual ceremony spot. The Reichert Planetarium seats 145 under a 60-foot dome and can be added Monday through Thursday or on a Sunday evening, which is the part no ballroom can match.

Rose garden, harbor views, a working planetarium

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The Mansion at Glen Cove — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. V

The Mansion at Glen Cove

Estate hotelGlen Cove, North ShoreUp to 220 in the Garden Ballroom; 700 in the seasonal tent

Charles Platt designed this Georgian house in 1910 for John Teele Pratt and Ruth Baker Pratt, who became New York's first congresswoman; Herbert Hoover later ran it as a summer White House. What separates it from the other Gold Coast houses is that it is a functioning hotel — 186 rooms and suites behind the historic facade, on 55 acres of Pratt estate grounds and gardens rather than a waterfront. The Garden Ballroom seats 220 and a seasonal tent on the lawn takes up to 700, but the real argument is the bed count: for a guest list that is largely flying in, being able to put everyone up on the property, half an hour from Manhattan, tends to settle it.

Historic estate with 186 rooms on site

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Bedell Cellars — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. VI

Bedell Cellars

VineyardCutchogue, North ForkUp to 200

A working North Fork estate vineyard whose weddings take a barn-style mahogany pavilion facing out over the rows, seating 200. Bedell publishes its conditions up front, and they narrow the field quickly: the pavilion runs May to early October, receptions sit in fixed six-hour blocks — 5pm to 11pm Friday and Saturday, 2pm to 8pm Sunday — and music has to stop at 11pm under the local ordinance. The ceremony is part of the site rental rather than a separate line, but nothing is cooked on the property, so caterers are drawn from an approved list and the wine poured is Bedell's own.

Mahogany pavilion over the vines

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Kontokosta Winery — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. VII

Kontokosta Winery

Waterfront vineyardGreenport, North ForkUp to 300 tented outdoors; 80 indoors

A 62-acre wind-powered farm holding more than a quarter-mile of Long Island Sound frontage — the rows run out to a bluff, and the rolling meadow between them is where the tent goes. The numbers swing hard with the season: 300 guests under canvas from May through October, but only 80 inside the tasting space once the tents come down, so a winter date here means a genuinely small wedding. Site fees for Friday-to-Sunday dates in summer and fall run $25,000 to $35,000, with winter, midweek and off-peak quoted on request.

A quarter-mile of Sound frontage

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Gurney's Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. VIII

Gurney's Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa

Oceanfront resortMontauk, South ForkUp to 280 seated in the seasonal Spa Tent; 160 in the Great Hall

The only four-season resort in Montauk, holding a 2,000-foot private beach at the eastern end of the South Fork. Ceremonies spread across the multi-level decks — Top Deck, East Deck, the Spa Terrace, the last of which takes 300 standing — while dinner goes indoors to the Great Hall at 160 or under a 60-by-90 tent that seats 280 in May, June, September and October. Rentals start at $5,000 and the food-and-bar package is priced per head by season, $250 from November to April against $375 in June and September, so the calendar is the biggest single lever on the bill. Everyone stays put, which matters given how far out Montauk is from everything else.

2,000 feet of private Atlantic beach

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The Crescent Beach Club — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. IX

The Crescent Beach Club

Beach clubBayville, North ShoreRoughly 350 to 450 seated; the club publishes no figure of its own

Bayville Avenue runs along a thin spit of the North Shore, and this club sits on the Sound side of it with its own beach — which is the entire argument for it over an inland Nassau catering hall at a comparable price. The Grand Ballroom's floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding doors give onto a veranda over the water, and the Ocean Restaurant on site takes the smaller dinners. It runs all season rather than closing with the beach, and books one wedding at a time, so a February date still gets the water view — just from behind glass.

Private sand on Long Island Sound

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The Inn at New Hyde Park — wedding venue in Long Island, New York

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No. X

The Inn at New Hyde Park

Ballroom and gardensNew Hyde Park, Nassau County25 to 500+; Georgian Ballroom seats 500

Seven separate rooms, each with its own private entrance, bridal suite and dedicated staff, which is how a Jericho Turnpike address absorbs a 500-person guest list without anyone bumping into another party. The Georgian Ballroom is the big one and seats up to 500; the smaller rooms take groups from around 25. There is a chapel on site for an indoor ceremony and gardens for an outdoor one, and the call between them is made at least 24 hours ahead on the forecast rather than on the morning — the closest thing on the island to a wedding that scales up without leaving Nassau County.

500-seat ballroom, on-site chapel

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Planning a wedding in Long Island

New York issues marriage licenses through any town, village or city clerk, and state law holds the license 24 hours before the ceremony can take place — for an East End wedding that means a weekday trip to a clerk's office in Riverhead, Southold or East Hampton, not an errand for the wedding morning. East End venues also run on fixed, early-ending blocks set by town noise rules rather than by the venue: Bedell Cellars, for instance, seats Friday and Saturday weddings from 5pm to 11pm and Sundays from 2pm to 8pm. Distance is the other trap — Montauk sits at the far end of the South Fork, and Route 27 through the Hamptons on a summer Friday can double the drive, which is why couples out there bus their guests in rather than leaving it to satnav.

When to marry — Late May into June and September into early October are the working windows — the East End's tented lawns and vineyard pavilions only operate through roughly that stretch, September brings the North Fork harvest and relief from August humidity, and hurricane season peaking between August and October is the main case against a high-summer date.
What it costs — Long Island is an expensive market, and the two ends of it bill in opposite directions. East End properties charge a site fee and leave catering to you — Kontokosta quotes $25,000 to $35,000 for a summer or fall weekend date, and Gurney's lists venue rentals from $5,000 on top of a per-head food-and-bar package running $250 between November and April and $375 in June and September. A Nassau County catering hall bundles room, food and staff into a single per-head figure instead, which usually lands well under an East End total for the same headcount. Most other venues here quote privately rather than publishing rates.

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What does a Long Island wedding actually cost?

It depends far more on which end of the island you pick than on the guest count. East End properties charge a site fee and leave catering to you: Kontokosta Winery quotes $25,000 to $35,000 for a Friday-to-Sunday date in summer or fall, and Gurney's publishes venue rentals from $5,000 on top of a per-person package that runs $250 between November and April against $375 in June and September — so at Gurney's the date moves the total more than the guest list does. Nassau County catering halls work the opposite way, bundling room, food and staff into one per-head figure, which usually lands well below an East End total for the same number of guests. Most of the estates and museums quote privately rather than publishing rates, so treat any number on a listing site as an opening position, not a price.

Can a couple from outside the United States legally marry on Long Island?

Yes. New York imposes no residency or citizenship requirement, and no blood test. Both parties apply together in person at any town, village or city clerk's office in the state with photo ID; state law then holds the license 24 hours before the ceremony may take place, and it stays valid for 60 days — so a Thursday application comfortably covers a Saturday wedding. Unlike Italy or France, there is no requirement for a separate civil ceremony: the ceremony you hold on Long Island under that license is the legal marriage. The extra step is getting it recognized at home — order a certified copy afterwards and have it apostilled by the New York Department of State if your country is in the Hague Convention, and check with your own consulate first, since a handful of countries will not register a foreign marriage at all.

How far ahead do Long Island venues need booking?

September and October Saturdays are the pinch point, and the properties that host one wedding a day — Oheka Castle and the Chateau at Coindre Hall among them — have a fraction of the inventory a multi-room catering hall does, so twelve to eighteen months out is normal for those dates. The East End is tighter still, because the vineyards only run tented weddings from roughly May to October, which cuts the available Saturdays in a year almost in half. Weekday and Sunday dates, and anything between January and April, open up considerably; Sunday blocks at the vineyards also start earlier in the afternoon, which some couples prefer anyway.

How many guests can Long Island venues hold?

The ceiling is higher here than at most US destinations. The Inn at New Hyde Park's Georgian Ballroom seats 500, Oheka Castle takes 350 in the Terrace Room, and Hempstead House at Sands Point Preserve seats 300 with 350 standing. Out east the big numbers depend on canvas: Kontokosta Winery holds 300 under a tent but only 80 indoors, Bedell Cellars caps at 200, and Gurney's seats 280 under its seasonal Spa Tent but 160 in the Great Hall. That inversion is the thing to plan around — a 300-guest wedding in June is an East End possibility, but a 300-guest wedding in February is a Nassau or North Shore question.

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Planning a wedding in Long Island

When to marry — Late May into June and September into early October are the working windows — the East End's tented lawns and vineyard pavilions only operate through roughly that stretch, September brings the North Fork harvest and relief from August humidity, and hurricane season peaking between August and October is the main case against a high-summer date.

What it costs — Long Island is an expensive market, and the two ends of it bill in opposite directions. East End properties charge a site fee and leave catering to you — Kontokosta quotes $25,000 to $35,000 for a summer or fall weekend date, and Gurney's lists venue rentals from $5,000 on top of a per-head food-and-bar package running $250 between November and April and $375 in June and September. A Nassau County catering hall bundles room, food and staff into a single per-head figure instead, which usually lands well under an East End total for the same headcount. Most other venues here quote privately rather than publishing rates.