Saturday night minimums

kateh Posted: Jul 17, 2005 10:07 AM

Saturday night minimums

I've started my search for reception sites, and I'm running into a problem... I want 150 people at my wedding max, and most sat nights, they require a 185+ minimum.

Does anyone have any recommendations for places that have a low sat night minimum?

MissingTheBGene Posted: Jul 17, 2005 10:12 AM

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Perhaps halls with more than one room, like Jericho Terrace?

Also check out George Washington Manor, Swan Club, Chateau Briand, there may be a few others but this is what comes to mind right now.

Good luck and I'll post again if I come up with more!

Marcie Posted: Jul 17, 2005 10:15 AM

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Not sure about where you are looking, but the Bellport Country Club was very accommodating about it!

july06bride Posted: Jul 17, 2005 10:17 AM

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not positive- but captain bills, watermill has a smaller room with most likely a smaller min. east wind gardens is the smaller of the rooms- not sure how many it holds though

kaklesmay Posted: Jul 17, 2005 10:38 AM

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You can negotiate the minimums down at some places.

If thats the deciding factor, they should come down.

I got my min down from 185-150.

I didnt threaten them, I just said it would be a lot less stress on me if I could lower the min to 150, even though I expect more.

It also lowers your payments leading up to the wedding because its usually based on mins

Dont rule out nice places just because of the mins, you may miss something!

Good luck!

04Bride Posted: Jul 17, 2005 10:49 AM

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The Riviera in Massapequa has one wedding at a time and 150 min for saturday night

jimmysgrl Posted: Jul 17, 2005 11:23 AM

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I know, we ran into similar problems. We're having ours at the Harrison House with 150 min. on a saturday night but like the other girls said, sometimes you can bargain with them.

cjb88 Posted: Jul 17, 2005 11:24 AM

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Our Sat night min was 150 at Hamlet Willow Creek

DrBeLLaRoSe Posted: Jul 17, 2005 11:25 AM

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bourne mansion gave me the minimum of 165.

zinezilla Posted: Jul 17, 2005 11:40 AM

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We got the Royalton at the Roslyn Country Club for a Saturday night with a 150 minimum. It is newly renovated and is the mansion style setting we wanted.

The Huntington Harbor Club had a 150 minimum for a Sat. night wedding.

The Roslyn Claremont Hotel had a 140 person minimum guarantee for a Saturday night. So did the Metropolitan in Glen Cove.

We had the exact same problem. We were looking for a Saturday night for May-Sept '06 (high wedding season) and had to eliminate a lot of places for the number of guests they want you to guarantee. We did not want to have to guarantee more than 150 because even though we will probably invite close to 200, we are aiming to have around 160-170 at the wedding.

If you are set on having a Sat. evening wedding, I think many places will negotiate on the minimum if you are looking at an 'off-time,' such as January-March. We were very interested in the Harrison House, which wanted 175 adults for a Sat. evening in spring/summer, but they would have negotiated if it was a less popular time of year. Most places would rather have 140 people guaranteed in March rather than risk having no booking.

Also, we wanted a place that would do only one event at a time, but if you don't care about that, a lot of places have smaller rooms that only ask you to guarantee 100 or 120 (the trick is getting a room that is big enough but has a lower minimum guarantee). My friend had a wedding in a smaller room at the Watermill and had a very low guarantee for a Sat. (like 110 people).

Good luck!

sunflowers74 Posted: Jul 17, 2005 11:44 AM

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We had a similar problem. The places we found with lower Sat night min were:

Larkfield Manor ( of course)
Meadow Club
George Washington Manor
Thatched Cottage (still too high for us, but lower then 150)
East Wind Country Gardens
Tall Grass Country Club

AlliNMatt06 Posted: Jul 17, 2005 12:43 PM

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I know the Hamlet in Hauppauge was pretty low, I think 130.

M&S Sept12006 Posted: Jul 17, 2005 02:49 PM

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The Garden Room at the Westbury Manor has a min of 95 guests and the room will hold 150 comfortably...you should go and check it out!

Princessmaris Posted: Jul 17, 2005 03:01 PM

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My wedding is a friday night wedding..

My min. was 175 and we got it down to 160...

When we tried to negotiate price...it was the first thing they offered to change!

SPITSBRIDE Posted: Jul 17, 2005 04:36 PM

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Were getting married at Jericho Terrace and our minimum on a Saturday is 200.

kateh Posted: Jul 17, 2005 06:20 PM

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Thanks for all the replies! I didn't think you could negotiate the minimum... good to know. I'd really like the carltun to reduce the sat minimum to 150...

Maybe I'll call tomorrow and see what she says. Any advice?