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help me find a venue

Original post by lenaM

hello everyone. Im new here this is my first post. My fiance and i got engaged on new years eve just as the ball dropped and basically a week or 2 after we started planning. (2 months). We have yet to find a venue and it is officially driving me crazy.
Our families are very large and theres a lot of specifics we need to meet.
-firstly we need for it to be a 1 event venue (i dont want to see any other guests who arent from my party)
- capacity needs to be 275-300 minimum (may even go over that)
- i want to get married in june of 2011 so preferably i want a beautiful outside (wedding permitting) . .if not i need for the venue to have 3 separate rooms for cocktail, ceremony , and reception (in that order .. i know many places do ceremony then cocktail but i prefer reversed)
- i would also like a place that allows outside catering but it isnt a necessity.

i really prefer to get married on long island , my family is from here and most of our guests are from brooklyn which is a close drive.
id prefer Nassau but im also open to Suffolk


Thank you so much in advance to everyone!

p.s :
the places i have already seen on long island:
- chateau briand (loved but they do more than 1 event and the backup ceremony room in case it rains wasnt to my liking)
- the inn at new hyde park (i wasnt crazy about the grand ballroom everything else was gorgeous)
- sand castle (love! actually gave a deposit till we discovered that in case it rains the indoor ceremony room will not accommodate 300 people .. tear . . i literally cried for 2 days over this place)
- floral terrace (nothing to say.)
- terrace on the park ( nothing to say.)

tomorrow i have appointments to
the woodlands
and
the carltun at eisenhower park
FutureMrsLots Posted:

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Posted by FallBride2010


Posted by lenaM

im loving Carlyle on the Green .. idk how i missed it in my search . will def stop by there tomorrow!! ty so much



The ballroom at Carlysle is beautiful. And you wont need outside catering...the food is sooo good!



I agree...I went to a wedding there last summer and it was beautiful
JessNicole7EM Posted:

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Posted by adelya21

Flowerfield? They are nice!



ITA, not sure how far it is from where you are, but it meets your criteria.
kerber981 Posted:

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I vote for the Carltun!!

Jordy1010 Posted:

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I'm a Carlyle bride and I vote Carlyle!!! It has everything you said you wanted! I am also having a wedding of 250-300 and Carlyle's ballroom can hold up to 400. The grounds are amazing, but the indoor ceremony area is also gorgeous. There are 3 seperate rooms for ceremony, CH and reception and multiple rooms for CH. The ballroom is all open with windows, wood floors and no poles!

I'm surprised that Carltun didn't tell you their ballroom was too small. Because that was the first place I looked and I always wanted to get married there and they said that their ballroom fits 250, but we werent convinced.

FM me if you have any questions

edited for spelling
jwleewedding Posted:

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Posted by LoveyDovey

Bourne Mansion

they have separate CH, Ceremony and Reception.

and they have outdoor space.




Bourne is a great place, but just FYI, since it's part of St Johns, it's considered a catholic property, which means you are not allowed to have your ceremony outdoors and the ceremony room can fit about 150 people comfortably.
justnicethings Posted:

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Just a warning, I don't think Carltun can accomodate that many people. My brother's guest list was closer to 200, and it was pretty tight.

Carlyle can definitely fit more.
I had the struggles of a large guest list, it's tough to make decisions based on it. We loved Woodlands and Royalton, but just too small :(

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