Selina II caps at six guests total under sail, including the couple, and at 12 guests for a dockside ceremony, first party. It is the smallest wedding product in this category and by some distance the most thought through. The package includes a licensed New York officiant, a customized ceremony, engraved champagne flutes and boat decorations. It carries no published price at all.
sailselinany.com/nautical-wedding-packageSail Selina NY documents three ceremony modes and publishes all of them. Under sail, weather permitting. Dockside under a canopy, for no wind or for shade or drizzle. Below deck, for wind and drizzle together. If the weather turns strong, the ceremony is rescheduled. No other Long Island vessel we found publishes a wet weather fallback for the ceremony itself, and only three publish a weather policy of any kind. For a couple who want the water and cannot risk the day, that one paragraph is worth more than a bigger boat.
The sailing ceremony is a private two hour sail, with an additional one hour celebratory sail available afterwards. Six guests total means the couple plus four, and the dockside variant lifts that to 12. This is an elopement boat. If your guest list is larger, the honest move is a ceremony aboard and a reception ashore, because no amount of negotiation changes a six person cap. The package also includes a licensed New York officiant, which removes the single biggest legal problem in a boat wedding.
The wedding page carries no USCG claim of any kind, for the vessel or for the captain. A six guest cap under way is consistent with an uninspected passenger vessel operating under the six passenger rule, in which case no Certificate of Inspection exists to ask for. The 12 guest dockside ceremony sits outside carriage of passengers altogether. That is a cleaner regulatory position than most boats in this category occupy, and it is a direct consequence of keeping the number small.
The page describes the officiant, the customized ceremony, keepsake engraved flutes, ivy and white rose decorations and crew hospitality. Bring your own bottle is welcome, and the crew supplies glassware, ice and water. Two weeks notice is required to cancel. After all that detail, no dollar figure appears anywhere on the page, and no season is published either. Ask for both in your first email.
The 150 passenger figure attached to The Lauren Kristy comes from third party editorial, and from four independent write ups that agree with each other.
The Freeport Gem publishes $4,950 for up to 50 people, tax and gratuity included, and $55 per additional person plus tax.
Sapphire Princess publishes a capacity of up to 127 guests on its own site, and that figure is corroborated twice.
Captain Lou Fleet publishes 1 to 150 passengers for Captain Lou VII on its private charters page, first party, and the identical figure for two sister hulls at the same dock.
The Moon Chaser publishes a capacity of 200 people, first party, which is the largest of any vessel docked on Long Island.
Bay Princess II says it is licensed for 100 passengers, first party, which is the closest any Long Island operator comes to publishing a certificated number on its own site.