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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-era 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.

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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 a 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. Every wedding includes three reception spaces — the Grand Ballroom, the Formal Dining Room and the Terrace Room — with the Terrace Room seating up to 350 at tables of twelve, and the house books 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 properties that inspired Gatsby's mansion.

One wedding a day, three reception rooms

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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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No. IIIChateau at Coindre Hall

No. III

Chateau at Coindre Hall

Historic chateauHuntington HarborUp to 250 seated

Modeled on a medieval French chateau and finished in 1912, this 40-room, 80,000-square-foot house on Browns Road is a National Historic Landmark that now works entirely as an event property. 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, and only one wedding runs at a time.

Landmark 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 that William K. Vanderbilt II kept as a summer home from 1910 to 1944 sits on 43 acres above Northport Bay, designed 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, salvaged columns, wrought iron gates by Samuel Yellin — is the usual ceremony spot, and the on-site planetarium under a 60-foot dome is available some evenings for something no ballroom can offer.

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 ShoreOver 25,000 sq ft of event space; 186 guest rooms

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 used it as a summer retreat. 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 gardens overlooking the Sound. For a guest list that is largely flying in, being able to put everyone to bed on the property, half an hour from Manhattan, tends to settle the decision.

Historic estate with 186 rooms on site

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No. VI

Bedell Cellars

VineyardCutchogue, North ForkUp to 200

The tasting room occupies a 1919 potato barn, reworked inside by designer Vicente Wolf — a reminder that the North Fork was farmland long before it was wine country. Weddings take the mahogany pavilion looking out over the vines, with an apple orchard and lavender rows behind it, and the ceremony is included in the site fee rather than priced separately. Two constraints shape the planning: the pavilion only runs May through early October, and receptions sit in fixed blocks, 5pm to 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays, 2pm to 8pm on Sundays.

Pavilion over the vines, 1919 potato barn

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No. VIIKontokosta Winery

No. VII

Kontokosta Winery

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

There is exactly one waterfront vineyard on the North Fork and this is it — rows running out to a bluff above Long Island Sound, with the meadow between them used for tented receptions. 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, off-season on request.

The North Fork's only waterfront vineyard

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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 220

Montauk's only four-season resort, holding a 2,000-foot private beach at the eastern end of the South Fork. There is more than 25,000 square feet of event space across multi-level decks, restaurants and banquet rooms facing the Atlantic, so the ceremony can be on sand and dinner indoors without anyone moving a car. Accommodation runs from oceanfront rooms to cottages and private residences, and the seawater spa gives the wedding party somewhere to be on the morning itself — practical, given how far out Montauk is from everything else.

2,000 feet of private Atlantic beach

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No. IXThe Crescent Beach Club

No. IX

The Crescent Beach Club

Beach clubBayville, North Shore

Bayville Avenue runs along a thin spit of the North Shore, and this club sits on the Sound side of it with a private stretch of white sand and palms trucked in for the summer. The ballroom faces the water directly, which is the argument for it over the inland catering halls at a comparable size, and the Ocean Restaurant handles smaller dinners. It works year-round rather than closing with the season, so a February wedding still gets the water view — just from behind glass.

Private sand on Long Island Sound

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No. XThe Inn at New Hyde Park

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, 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; smaller rooms take groups from around 25. There is a chapel on site for an indoor ceremony and gardens for an outdoor one, with a stated plan for moving inside if the weather turns — 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: East End estates and vineyards commonly quote a site fee alone in the $20,000 to $35,000 range before any catering — Kontokosta's summer and fall weekends run $25,000 to $35,000, and Gurney's reports all-in weddings between $50,000 and $85,000 — while a Nassau County catering hall that bundles room, food and staff into a single per-head figure will come in well under that for the same headcount.

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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 summer and fall weekends, the Vanderbilt Museum starts around $20,000, and Gurney's reports finished weddings between $50,000 and $85,000. Sands Point Preserve sits lower on the rental itself, in the region of $5,000 to $10,000, but catering and rentals are then additional. 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.

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 tops out around 220. 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: East End estates and vineyards commonly quote a site fee alone in the $20,000 to $35,000 range before any catering — Kontokosta's summer and fall weekends run $25,000 to $35,000, and Gurney's reports all-in weddings between $50,000 and $85,000 — while a Nassau County catering hall that bundles room, food and staff into a single per-head figure will come in well under that for the same headcount.

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