North Shore estates
Gold Coast mansion and estate wedding venues.
The North Shore is lined with Gilded Age mansions, the ones built when this stretch of the Island was the money coast.
The North Shore is lined with Gilded Age mansions, the ones built when this stretch of the Island was the money coast.
A mansion is rarely turnkey. Read the catering line on each card — exclusive caterer, in-house, or bring your own changes the whole budget. Claim your page.
The castle. Formal gardens, the famous staircase, weddings run in-house.
Gold Coast event house on the old du Pont estate, run like a luxury hall.
Singer-fortune Oakdale mansion running grand weddings with in-house catering.
County-owned harborfront mansion with a boathouse, catered by its exclusive operator.
The old Guggenheim castles on the Sound, booked park-style with approved caterers.
State arboretum with a Tudor hall in the middle, permits and caterers required.
Westbury House and its famous gardens, the raw-estate route with the biggest payoff.
Eagle's Nest, the Vanderbilt estate over Northport Bay, booked through approved caterers.
Fitzgerald set Gatsby out here, on Great Neck and Sands Point, and he wasn't exaggerating the grandeur. It's real, and you can hold your wedding inside it. Oheka Castle in Huntington is the headliner, by most counts the second-largest private home ever built in this country, with the formal gardens and the staircase you already know from a hundred photos. Then there's Coindre Hall down the road, De Seversky Mansion in Old Westbury, Sands Point Preserve, Planting Fields and Coe Hall in Oyster Bay, and the Bourne Mansion out at Oakdale. Stone, grounds, and ceilings that stop people in the doorway.
Here's the part nobody warns you about. Most of these estates are not catering halls, so the day is yours to build. Plenty have no in-house kitchen, which means an approved caterer, rentals for the tables and the china, a tent or an indoor backup in case it rains, and a coordinator to run the vendors a hall would normally handle for you. More moving parts, more line items. What you get back is a setting no ballroom on the Island can touch.
The Gold Coast splits into two kinds of booking, and the first phone call should sort which one you're in. Sands Point Preserve and Planting Fields operate as parks, which means permits, approved caterer lists, and firm end times in exchange for grounds no private venue can match. Oheka, De Seversky, and the Bourne Mansion run as event houses, with kitchens, packages, and coordinators on staff, so the planning feels closer to a luxury hall that happens to be a castle. Coindre Hall is county parkland with an exclusive caterer attached, so it lands in between.
The event-house estates quote per head at a premium tier, and you can compare them to the big halls line for line. The park and raw estates price differently: a site fee, then the caterer, the rentals, the staffing, and the coordinator stack on top, and the total usually lands near the fancy hall anyway. The difference is where the money shows. At a hall it shows in the stations. At an estate it shows in the stone, the staircase, and the fact that your February wedding photos were taken in a mansion library with a fire going.