The South Fork
Hamptons and South Fork wedding venues.
The South Fork is the ocean end of the Island. Southampton, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, Amagansett, and the dune roads in between.
The South Fork is the ocean end of the Island. Southampton, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, Amagansett, and the dune roads in between.
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Shelter Island inn a short ferry from Sag Harbor, calm water and lawn.
Bridgehampton's restored 1840s house, hotel and restaurant included.
Sagaponack vines and the rosé everyone at the wedding already knows.
This is the fancy end of the Island, and it earns it. The Ram's Head Inn sits on Shelter Island, which isn't technically the Hamptons and will tell you so, but it's a short ferry from Sag Harbor and it books like one. A lot of the rest is private estates and tented weddings in a backyard that happens to face the dunes. Gurney's and everything past Amagansett belongs to Montauk, which is its own animal and gets its own page. When outdoor music has to stop, town by town.
Two honest things before you fall for it. It has the priciest zip codes going, and on summer Fridays, Route 27 is a parking lot that everyone plans their arrival around. Book the room block, tell your people to leave early, and take a real look at a Friday. A Hamptons wedding in September, after the crowds clear out, is the date the locals actually book.
Half the Hamptons weddings you've seen in magazines happened on private property under a tent, and that route comes with homework. Big guest counts can trigger gathering permits, depending on the town or village. The noise rules shut the band down early, and the neighbors know the number to call. Everything a venue would own, from the generators to the restroom trailers to where the vendors park, lands on your plan instead. Also budget for the surcharge nobody mentions: plenty of vendors charge travel fees east of the Shinnecock Canal, so ask every single one up front.
The premium out there is land, a compressed season, and staff who have to be housed for it. You can duck a lot of it without leaving the South Fork. A restaurant buyout in Sag Harbor or Amagansett gets you the address and dinner worth bragging about at a fraction of the estate math. The inns marry smaller parties beautifully. And a Friday does to a Hamptons quote what it does everywhere else on the Island, except the starting number was bigger, so the discount is too. The ocean doesn't know what day it is.
The Ram's Head Inn on Shelter Island shows a reception site fee of $7,000 in peak season (June to September) and $3,000 off peak on WeddingWire. The ceremony is $2,000 peak and $500 off peak with a 60 guest minimum. WeddingWire lists no months from January to March.
Wölffer Estate in Sagaponack prints nothing about money for a full estate wedding. PartySlate lists a 50 guest minimum and The Knot says up to 200. Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton prints capacities for two rooms and nothing about rates or minimums.
Montauk is on its own page, and two figures from it belong in a South Fork budget. Gurney's 2025 packet listed $250 per person from November to April and $375 in June and September; the 2026 packet, current and first party, prints no base price at all. Navy Beach is $80 per person and up plus a 20% administrative fee on Here Comes The Guide.
East Hampton Town's special events page limits a catered beach event or beach wedding ceremony to 50 attendees, and Chapter 151 of the Town code prohibits amplified music at beach assemblies. The Town Trustees require a permit for any event of 50 or more, any catered event, or any structure on the sand. The East Hampton Star counted 72 catered beach event permits in 2022, and 70 of them were for 50 people or fewer.
On private property in the Town, 50 or more people triggers a permit, and amplified music outdoors after 9 pm is itself a trigger. Hosting more than one paid event a year at a single family house makes it a nonresidential use. Inside East Hampton Village, Chapter 139 sets the same 50 person threshold but counts staff, and outdoor music may be permitted until 11 pm as a permit condition.
Southampton is the sharper split. The Town's noise code, Chapter 235, bans amplified sound on the exterior of any premises. The one carve out runs 7 am to 7 pm, and there is no exemption for weddings. The Village of Southampton amended Chapter 77 on 11 July 2024 to allow amplified sound from 9 am to 11 pm and to exempt any wedding granted an exception by the Board of Trustees. The same estate wedding is legal on one side of the village line and a violation on the other.
Which municipality the property sits in, town or village, since that decides the hour the band stops. Who holds the special event permit; at a private estate it is you, and a late application in East Hampton Town costs $100 to $5,000 depending on headcount. Whether the guest count including staff crosses 50. Whether the tent crosses 700 square feet, or stands more than 14 consecutive days, which the Town does not allow. Whether the insurance certificate reaches $2,000,000 and names the Town. And where the cars go, because in East Hampton Town overflow parking on public streets converts a private party into a Commercial Special Event Permit.
WeddingWire lists a $7,000 peak and $3,000 off peak reception site fee with a 60 guest minimum; the inn's own site would not load.
No fee or capacity is published for a full estate wedding; PartySlate lists a 50 guest minimum and The Knot says up to 200.
the 2025 packet listed $250 per person November to April and $375 in June and September, and the 2026 packet prints no price.
WeddingWire lists $25,000 peak and $15,000 off peak for the reception site, and PartySlate $375 per guest with a $40,000 minimum.
$80 per person and up plus a 20% administrative fee on Here Comes The Guide, and a 4% credit card fee on the restaurant's own site.
Of the 164 venues on this site, 29 print a per person rate or a site fee on their own sites. Every figure word for word, in sortable tables.
Nine venues print a clock time on their own sites, and the latest is midnight. The 2 AM finishes come from Wedding Spot.
Eight venues put the rain plan in writing and three include the tent in the fee. Where the indoor room is smaller than the lawn.
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 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.