Suffolk County marries more couples in October than in June. East Hampton caps a catered beach wedding at 50 people. The Village of Southampton wrote a wedding noise exception into its code in July 2024 and the Town did not. These pages come from the state tables and the town codes, with the section numbers, and they say plainly where a fee is not published.
Suffolk County recorded 1,039 marriages in October 2022 and 333 in January. Month by month counts for Nassau and Suffolk from NYS DOH Table 47.
East Hampton Town caps catered beach weddings at 50 attendees and bans amplified music on the sand. Town and Trustees permits, fees from $75, deadlines.
Southampton stops outdoor amplified sound at 7:00 p.m. and Garden City at 8:00 p.m. Sixteen municipalities publish an hour, seventeen bar it across the property line at any hour, each quoted from the code.
The Village of Southampton added a wedding noise exception on 11 July 2024. The Town of Southampton did not, and cuts outdoor amplified sound at 7pm.
Chapter 151 in East Hampton Town and Chapter 139 in the Village both require a permit at 50 people. Deadlines, tents, parking, insurance and fines.
Fire Island National Seashore lists weddings as a permit category. Under 25 people need no permit, applications go by U.S. Mail only, fees not published.
Suffolk charges 8¾ percent and Nassau 8⅝ percent. The state says a service charge is always taxed, a mandatory gratuity sometimes is not, and a room you rent yourself is not taxed at all.
New York publishes a list, and an online ordained friend is not clearly on it: the department covering Nassau and Suffolk held such a marriage void in 1989. The one day officiant licence costs $25 and settles it.
Buying the drink yourself does not remove the licence question, and the Authority publishes the test. Neither county adopted a last call, so 4:00 a.m. is the state answer.
Four of 28 authorities publish both a fee and a cap. Nassau counts your photographer inside its 50; East Hampton does not. Jones Beach publishes nothing.
The wire sparkler is a consumer firework under the Penal Law, not a sparkling device, so the send off is unlawful before either county ban applies. What a havan needs instead, and why cold spark is no loophole in Nassau.
Smithtown and Glen Cove require a permit above 120 square feet, Islip allows a residential tent 72 hours, and Nassau County adds a permit of its own. All thirteen towns and both cities.
A New York marriage license costs $40 outside New York City, cannot be used for 24 hours, and expires after 60 days. Both of you must apply in person.
No marketplace publishes a Long Island average. The Knot says $49,000 for New York State. The Wedding Report's Long Island estimate is $45,173 to $55,211.
New York Domestic Relations Law Section 11 is a closed list of who may solemnize a marriage, and no captain or master appears on it.
Coast Guard Certificate of Inspection numbers are a hard legal ceiling. Subchapter T covers vessels carrying 150 or fewer passengers.
Huntington Section 120-18 requires a town permit, $1,000,000 of insurance and a Coast Guard certificate before a charter boat boards guests.
We read what 30 Long Island clubs publish about who may book an event. Twenty publish an open route, four gate it on membership, and six say nothing.
Nassau registers every for-hire vehicle, and a stretch limo driver needs a CDL Class C with a P endorsement. How to check each record.
Nineteen venues describe getting there by LIRR, four offer a car from the station, and the Shelter Island ferries each have their own last boat.
Lowest labeled Long Island venue figures: $69 per person at Timber Point on Wedding Spot, $99 at Coindre Hall on Lessing's site, and the 22% fee after.
Cocktail hour, Viennese hour, the maitre d’ and the bridal attendant, explained for people who did not grow up out here.
Of the 164 venues on this site, 30 print a per person rate or a site fee on their own sites. Every figure word for word, in sortable tables.
Ten venues say on their own sites that the caterer is yours to hire. Seven more let you choose from their approved list.
50 venues say it on their own sites, in their own words. 16 more say it only on a marketplace listing.
Ten venues print a clock time on their own sites, and only one runs past midnight. Most 2 AM finishes come from Wedding Spot.
Nine venues put the rain plan in writing and three include the tent in the fee. Where the indoor room is smaller than the lawn.
Two venues name rehearsal dinners themselves. Ten more publish a small room with a seated count.
Korean paebaek, Chinese tea ceremonies, Nigerian, Greek and Persian music, and the seven venues with an on site chapel.
Fourteen synagogues that host weddings, two glatt kosher kitchens, five venues that bring one in, and who supervises each.
The diocese bars outdoor and tent Catholic weddings. Parish lead times and fees, and churches that marry non-members.
Six mosques publish a nikah service, one free of charge, plus halal caterers and venues.
Ten venues publish a South Asian page, and several name the baraat, the mandap and the fire ceremony.
Bilingual officiants, DJs who MC in Spanish, mariachi, Latin menus, and the venues that say so.