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Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

JaimeLin Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:01 PM+

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Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:01 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

She's newly engaged and starting to think about having her wedding on LI but she's living upstate right now.

She's thinking about venues with a beachy feel or close to the water, any suggestions?

Also for the girls doing the all inclusive wedding companies what are included and can you give me a ball park estimate of what she should expect to spend with using these.

rcotter90 Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:12 PM+

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Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:12 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

Venetian yacht club is gorgeous and on the water and I've never been to bridgeview but I've heard great things. As for all-inclusive, for reference we looked at East Wind's all inclusive package and it would have cost us about $20K for 150 people. That's including venue, photo, dj, centerpieces, 1 8 passenger limo, and cake I believe. I may be missing something. Now I'm spending more than that on just my venue. SMH it makes me sick even thinking about it, but FH didn't like the idea of getting married in the room where we had our prom.

kellynicole91 Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:29 PM+

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Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:29 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

I'm not sure what price range she's going for but here's a few different venues (varying price ranges):
- the Mansion at West Sayville (Lessings; she can get married on the dock)
- Crescent Beach Club
- Pavilion at Sunken Meadow (Lessings)
- Land's End
- Danford's
- Venetian Yacht Club

haw4 Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:56 PM+

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Posted: Sep 08, 2014 04:56 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

I'm using complete wedding packages in East Meadow for pretty much everything! They're fantastic! I know they raised their prices but she can go on their website and look at their packages or build her own.

Jsabbatino Posted: Sep 08, 2014 05:12 PM+

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Posted: Sep 08, 2014 05:12 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

Chateau La Mer - they even bring you to your CH by boat if its nice! A lot of the all inclusive lessings properties have the pricing info on their websites

FeilWedding101615 Posted: Sep 08, 2014 06:37 PM+

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Posted: Sep 08, 2014 06:37 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

Crescent Beach Club! You feel like you're in a tropical island--very pretty venue

LibrarianJoyce724 Posted: Sep 08, 2014 06:46 PM+

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Posted: Sep 08, 2014 06:46 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

Bayview House at Captain Bills

HesLIgirl Posted: Sep 09, 2014 11:15 AM+

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Posted: Sep 09, 2014 11:15 AM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

I fell in love with Bridgeview Yacht Club right away. It's so beautiful, inside and out. And from what I understand, the prices are really, really good!

katiephoto Posted: Sep 10, 2014 01:49 PM+

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Posted: Sep 10, 2014 01:49 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

I am getting married on the dock at West Sayville Country Club. She should also check out the Pavilion at Sunken Meadow and Land's End. I didn't really like the set up at Sunken Meadow, but the view is amazing and you can have true beach wedding.

Or maybe even a Fire Island wedding? I am going to a wedding next weekend in Ocean Beach. They have a small white chapel there and a number of restaurants that host parties.

Jsabbatino Posted: Sep 10, 2014 02:05 PM+

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Posted: Sep 10, 2014 02:05 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

A very good friend of mine had her ceremony on the beach at FI and then reception at Chateau La Mer

JaimeLin Posted: Sep 10, 2014 03:46 PM+

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Posted: Sep 10, 2014 03:46 PM

Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

Thanks for all the help ladies =)

Deirdre-and-Joe Posted: Sep 10, 2014 11:26 PM+

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Posted: Sep 10, 2014 11:26 PM

Re: Need help with helping a friend plan her wedding!

I did one of the all-inclusive packages. I liked it because I didn't have to go crazy trying to find all the vendors, I did however look up multiple reviews for each prior to booking. We get 2 limos either to the church then 1 to the RH or 2 to the RH, 4 hour dj, 8 hours of photo, cake, 10 centerpieces, my bouquet, toss bouquet, MOH bouquet, FH boutonniere, best man boutonniere.

emmac Posted: Sep 11, 2014 07:20 PM+

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Posted: Sep 11, 2014 07:20 PM