The Search for the Perfect Location Continues...

Hey Ladies,

Clearly I am a “newbie” since this is only my second post but I figured where else to ask for some advice than here… The FH has been WONDERFUL for the past 3 weeks, we’ve seen close to 20 different Venues/RH and are looking forward to putting a cap on our search and simply go back and weigh the pros/cons of each. We’re not too picky, we just want to make sure we visit every possible location before making our final decision. Here’s the list of places that we’ve seen so far… I really hope I haven’t missed any but if your suggestions jog my memory I will be sure to let you know =)


Westchester/Upstate Area:

Abigail Kirsch At Tappan Hill
Glen Island Harbour Club
The Fountainhead
The Riverview
Westchester Manor
Bear Mountain Inn
Beckwith Pointe
Castle on the Hudson
Lyndhurt Castle


Long Island:

Watermill
Villa Lombardis
Flowerfield
Land’s End
The Venetian Yacht Club
The Crestwood Manor
Larkfield Manor
Huntington Harbor Club
Mill Ridge Inn
Garden City Hotel
Fox Hollow
East Wind


Coming this week:

Oheka Castle
Chateau La Mer
Bridgeview Yacht Club
Allegria Hotel
Majestic Gardens
Cold Spring Harbor Country Club
Westbury Manor


Any other Must-See suggestions before we put a cap on our list and finally pick?!

To help narrow the list down… The things that we are looking for:

*GREAT FOOD!
*One Wedding at a time. We understand that another “event” might be going on but if we can help having another bride in her suite next door to ours that would be steller ;)
*Décor that does not need extra help to it (If we can refrain from adding extra lighting simply to pin-spot centerpieces or up-light the walls that would be ideal)

Also! If anyone is interested in what we thought the pros/cons were of each of these places let me know, we took great notes :P

Thanks ladies! <3!!!

Thanks for the suggestions ladies!

We'll add both and also got a suggestions for Grand Prospect Hall =)

Oh my... poor guy... he's not going to want to marry me after all this running around :P

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Posted by Jayla127

I'm getting married at the Inn at New Hyde Park.

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Wow that looks gorgeous! if you don't mine me asking what was the minimum that they gave you?

My only concern is that we're inviting 140 guests and most places have that as their minimum :/

First off i woud like to say Welcome and Congrats!!!! You definatly have a pretty big list and it looks like a lot of research has gone into your RH search!! All the places you are looking at are amazing!!!


I must say though.. with your invite list... Chateau La Mer can definatly work with you,.. of course i am a little partial to the place b.c that is my venue... but they do have more than one event at a time.. what i can tell you though is that your bridal sutie would not be right next to the other brides suite. They have an upstairs room (with your invite amount that is probably goign to be the room they show you) and the food is AMAZING!!! FH is Italian and food was extemely important to him and his family and everyone loved it! Also they are quite affordable even during prime wedding season...

Im not trying to rave abt CLM just trying to let you know to keep your options open when it comes to deciding wether or not to take a place based on wether they have one wedding at a time or not...

I wish you the best of luck and welcome again to the addiction!!!!!

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Posted by 2010BTB

Check out the Royalton. Food there is phenomenal!

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Hey Bride to Be,

Are you talking about the Royalton in NYC? Because you're totally right! The food IS phenomenal there!!!

I think that we are trying to stay away from the city though, only because everything seems to be so much more expensive there :(

Thanks again!

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Posted by FutureMrsPanuch

First off i woud like to say Welcome and Congrats!!!! You definatly have a pretty big list and it looks like a lot of research has gone into your RH search!! All the places you are looking at are amazing!!!


I must say though.. with your invite list... Chateau La Mer can definatly work with you,.. of course i am a little partial to the place b.c that is my venue... but they do have more than one event at a time.. what i can tell you though is that your bridal sutie would not be right next to the other brides suite. They have an upstairs room (with your invite amount that is probably goign to be the room they show you) and the food is AMAZING!!! FH is Italian and food was extemely important to him and his family and everyone loved it! Also they are quite affordable even during prime wedding season...

Im not trying to rave abt CLM just trying to let you know to keep your options open when it comes to deciding wether or not to take a place based on wether they have one wedding at a time or not...

I wish you the best of luck and welcome again to the addiction!!!!!

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Haha thanks so much!!! And yes this site is quickly becoming a new addiction for me :P

We're going there Wednesday so I will definitely let you know how it goes... I heard that depending on the manager you initially speak with the contract prices can waver... Any recommendations as to who we should sit with?

the only other one I can think of is Abigail Kirsch at the New York Botanical Garden (in the Bronx)
Good luck!

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Posted by pjsoup

the only other one I can think of is Abigail Kirsch at the New York Botanical Garden (in the Bronx)
Good luck!

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Yeah I was debating about that one too!!! Abigail Kirsch has AMAZING food so we know that we can't go wrong with having them as our caterers, the only down side to Tappan Hill was that the space itself (of the mansion) was a little awkwardly positioned, the cocktail room had a strange, but cool, zig-zag shape to it.

And we also want our guests to be 'wow-ed' with each section of part of the wedding and if the ceremony were to be indoors we would switch rooms and come back to the same one for the reception portion... If we fell in love with the place it would be worth it but the cocktail room kind of did it for us :/

I hope the BG is more spacious :)

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Posted by SoonToBeMrsONeill

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Posted by FutureMrsPanuch

First off i woud like to say Welcome and Congrats!!!! You definatly have a pretty big list and it looks like a lot of research has gone into your RH search!! All the places you are looking at are amazing!!!


I must say though.. with your invite list... Chateau La Mer can definatly work with you,.. of course i am a little partial to the place b.c that is my venue... but they do have more than one event at a time.. what i can tell you though is that your bridal sutie would not be right next to the other brides suite. They have an upstairs room (with your invite amount that is probably goign to be the room they show you) and the food is AMAZING!!! FH is Italian and food was extemely important to him and his family and everyone loved it! Also they are quite affordable even during prime wedding season...

Im not trying to rave abt CLM just trying to let you know to keep your options open when it comes to deciding wether or not to take a place based on wether they have one wedding at a time or not...

I wish you the best of luck and welcome again to the addiction!!!!!

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Haha thanks so much!!! And yes this site is quickly becoming a new addiction for me :P

We're going there Wednesday so I will definitely let you know how it goes... I heard that depending on the manager you initially speak with the contract prices can waver... Any recommendations as to who we should sit with?

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Definalty try to see Nick, He is the owner of the place and can work with you a little better than Lou can. FH and i met with Lou twice and he was very nice but he has a tendancy of forgetting who you are... i think its a little funny.. but when FH and i went to the bridal extravaganza a couple of months ago we saw Nick there and since we had never met with him i never thought in a million years he would know who we were... but i was wrong. We told him our date and he new my first and last name with out having to tell him... If we had any doubts about our decision.. they were all washed away after that!

Im pretty sure the pricing is the same either way.... they have a print out with the pricing for the year.. and they are just SOOO affordable for everything they offer! If you get married from May to October you even come into your cocktail hour on a boat...

if you have any more questions feel free to ask i get soo excited talking about them as you can see from my responses

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Posted by FutureMrsPanuch

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Posted by SoonToBeMrsONeill

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Posted by FutureMrsPanuch

First off i woud like to say Welcome and Congrats!!!! You definatly have a pretty big list and it looks like a lot of research has gone into your RH search!! All the places you are looking at are amazing!!!


I must say though.. with your invite list... Chateau La Mer can definatly work with you,.. of course i am a little partial to the place b.c that is my venue... but they do have more than one event at a time.. what i can tell you though is that your bridal sutie would not be right next to the other brides suite. They have an upstairs room (with your invite amount that is probably goign to be the room they show you) and the food is AMAZING!!! FH is Italian and food was extemely important to him and his family and everyone loved it! Also they are quite affordable even during prime wedding season...

Im not trying to rave abt CLM just trying to let you know to keep your options open when it comes to deciding wether or not to take a place based on wether they have one wedding at a time or not...

I wish you the best of luck and welcome again to the addiction!!!!!

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Haha thanks so much!!! And yes this site is quickly becoming a new addiction for me :P

We're going there Wednesday so I will definitely let you know how it goes... I heard that depending on the manager you initially speak with the contract prices can waver... Any recommendations as to who we should sit with?

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Definalty try to see Nick, He is the owner of the place and can work with you a little better than Lou can. FH and i met with Lou twice and he was very nice but he has a tendancy of forgetting who you are... i think its a little funny.. but when FH and i went to the bridal extravaganza a couple of months ago we saw Nick there and since we had never met with him i never thought in a million years he would know who we were... but i was wrong. We told him our date and he new my first and last name with out having to tell him... If we had any doubts about our decision.. they were all washed away after that!

Im pretty sure the pricing is the same either way.... they have a print out with the pricing for the year.. and they are just SOOO affordable for everything they offer! If you get married from May to October you even come into your cocktail hour on a boat...

if you have any more questions feel free to ask i get soo excited talking about them as you can see from my responses

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Oh awesome!!! Would you mind sharing the quotes that they gave you? Im assuming there's a way to private message each other on here hahaha, if not feel free to email me: [email protected]

Thanks again! You've got me really excited for them!!!

I cant help it im soo in love with the place :)

You have FM

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Posted by FutureMrsPanuch

I cant help it im soo in love with the place :)

You have FM

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I saw I saw!!! Thank you!!!

Where else did you two look before you settled on CLM?

OH wow!! I was totally under the impression Nick was the owner.. lol...

We looked at many different places
-Jericho Terrace
-Sandcastle
-Floral Terrace
-Russos on the Bay
-The Fox Hollow
-The Watermill
-The Swan Club
- went to 2 weddings at Chateau Briand
- The Coral House
- Verdis of Westbury

There were more but for some reason i cant remember them now.. lol.. if i remember anymore ill let you know

The Bayview House at Captain Bill's!! Very pretty, well I'm partial

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Posted by SoonToBeMrsONeill

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Posted by FutureMrsPanuch

First off i woud like to say Welcome and Congrats!!!! You definatly have a pretty big list and it looks like a lot of research has gone into your RH search!! All the places you are looking at are amazing!!!


I must say though.. with your invite list... Chateau La Mer can definatly work with you,.. of course i am a little partial to the place b.c that is my venue... but they do have more than one event at a time.. what i can tell you though is that your bridal sutie would not be right next to the other brides suite. They have an upstairs room (with your invite amount that is probably goign to be the room they show you) and the food is AMAZING!!! FH is Italian and food was extemely important to him and his family and everyone loved it! Also they are quite affordable even during prime wedding season...

Im not trying to rave abt CLM just trying to let you know to keep your options open when it comes to deciding wether or not to take a place based on wether they have one wedding at a time or not...

I wish you the best of luck and welcome again to the addiction!!!!!

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Haha thanks so much!!! And yes this site is quickly becoming a new addiction for me :P

We're going there Wednesday so I will definitely let you know how it goes... I heard that depending on the manager you initially speak with the contract prices can waver... Any recommendations as to who we should sit with?

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NICK!!!!